Vegas Casino Frontier Hotel | Building Demolition | BlowDown | S01 E02| Free Documentary
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Published 2019-08-05
In this episode the team from CDI descends on Las Vegas to take
down the Frontier Hotel and Casino landmark using 5000 sticks of
dynamite.
A vintage Vegas structure, the Frontier was the second hotel to be
built on the strip and hosted notable performers like Elvis, the
Supremes and Seigfried and Roy. Recently purchased for 1.2 billion
dollars, the hotel is being imploded to make way for a reconstruction
of New York's Plaza Hotel. But unlike most demolitions, in most cities,
anything that happens in Vegas is part of a larger spectacle, so not
only is the demo team contending with taking down the building, but
in working around more than 1,600 kg of fireworks and pyrotechnics
which will be used in the pre-demo show.
Despite its diminutive stature, the team expects to use in excess of
1,000 kg of dynamite, more than the team used to bring down the 32
story Stardust hotel earlier in the year. The team is challenged by a
lack of accurate blueprints and the concentration of rebar that
threatens the operation.
As they drill the holes to load the dynamite massive amounts of re-bar are found, preventing proper placement of dynamite and to add
further complication, they come across toxic asbestos within the hotel walls. So with only days to go before the implosion, CDI rethinks the demo plan and attacks the structure by pre-weakening it. Heavy-duty drills and skid-steers equipped with jack-hammers cut the support walls.
They plan an innovative technique using cables to ensure that the
building will fall in the direction they want it to. The cables are
wrapped around an end of the structure and attached to the elevator shaft inside the hotel. The plan is to pull the wall away from the neighbouring roadway and into the fall zone.
The implosion is set for 2:30 am, and the fireworks technicians will
warm up the Vegas crowd for the grand finale turning the historical
Frontier into a pile of rubble.
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All Comments (21)
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This implosion was one of the best ones I've ever seen. I love the pyrotechnic countdown and plunger. It was amazing
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I was lucky enough to live in Vegas when this came down. If you ever get a chance to see something like this take it and see it. It will probably be in the top 10 memories
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I stayed at the Frontier once. Came back late one night and sat down to play black jack. Sitting there was Milton Berle! Played a few hands with Uncle Miltie.
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I love in the beginning of the introduction that they gave a good example of “don’t step on it Stacy” This brought me to tears 😂
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Your family is absolutely amazing. I am in awe of your knowledge, dedication and attention to spectators, co-workers, just everything!!💜💜💜
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It’s been over 12 years since it was demolished, 2 rejected Casino plans and a land sale later and still nothing. They might aswell have just kept it standing and open for all the hassle of knocking it down for nothing
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Losing millions daily well it's 2019 and there's still nothing been done on the location since demolish was cleaned up
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Only implosion I made it down to while living in Vegas, great to witness in person, very well done!!!
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Guys, please tell everyone about this channel it deserves 3 million at least
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The Frontier had such a neat and beautiful swimming pool...so sad that it's all gone now.
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Not only is it easier to clean it up when there's just the shell of the building, but it's also safer. While a non-loadbearing wall won't hold the weight of the building, it CAN resist it for long enough that the structure starts shifting in an un-wanted direction, and all of a sudden, it's not falling into the drop zone any more. It's all about minimizing the chance of trouble.
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As a workplace safety specialist, this type of stuff is absolutely facinating. Even after 30+ years of on-site hazard analysis, compliance trainings, lectures, site-audits, training sessions, and meeting thousands of industrial professionals who help manage environmental, health, and safety - this stuff still makes the 10-year old in me wide-eyed and filled with wonder. GREAT channel, excellet episode, and you've earned a new subscriber. Excellent production quality to educate, motivate, and inspire - pleasek eep up the good work. Thank you.
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just amazing how they overcome the set-backs to make it all work....what a spectacular show but a hell of a lot of hard work put in by dedicated experts to make it all happen and all over in less than a minute...just the clean up afterward...
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I always love watching documentary shows & ur's are awesome to watch. And always have front row seats.Ty
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You can never get rid of all the asbestos. Being near those demos without breathing filters is foolhardy.
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It ironic that the property still has nothing there after the building was removed.
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That was quite the show! Clever!
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I noticed that they didn't mention two of those firework controllers failed to go down the zip lines like they were supposed to.
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Great documentary. I enjoyed how much detail went into the whole process... the demolition and the documentary crew.👍
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The care this company takes to make sure nothing hurts spectators is why they are wanted world wide
