Old Sunshine Skyway Bridge In 1990, the FDOT awarded a bid to Hardaway Company (owner of Controlled Demolition, Inc.) to demolish all steel and concrete sections of the old
Sunshine Skyway spans. The scope of the project required that all underwater piles and piers, and surface roadway, girders, and beams, be dismantled. Special care had to be taken in removing underwater bridge elements near the channel, and the central portion of the original bridge had to be removed in one piece to minimize closure of the only approach to the busy
Port of Tampa. Most of the concrete material was used to create an
artificial reef near the southbound approach of the old bridge, which was converted into a long pier for newly created
Skyway Fishing Pier State Park. Unused approaches to the original spans were demolished in 2008.
Alfred P. Murrah Building, Oklahoma City On May 23, 1995, the firm was responsible for the demolition of the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building after
its bombing on April 19, 1995.
The Seattle Kingdome On March 26, 2000, the firm used 4,450 pounds of dynamite placed in 5,905 carefully sited holes and of detonation cord inserted over a period of four months to take down the 25,000-ton concrete roof of the
Kingdome in
Seattle, Washington in 16.8 seconds, one day before the 24th birthday of the stadium that had been the home of the
Seattle Mariners of
Major League Baseball and the
Seattle Seahawks of the
National Football League. The total cost for the demolition project was $9 million. The firm planned the collapse of the roof to prevent its simultaneous free fall, creating a delay pattern that would break the roof into pieces and setting up 15-foot-high earth berms on the floor of the stadium to absorb the impact of the falling concrete. The demolition of the Kingdome established the record for the largest structure, by volume, ever demolished with explosives. The implosion of the 125,000-ton concrete structure did not cause a single crack in the foundation of the new stadium being built away.
Gettysburg National Tower CDI demolished the
Gettysburg National Tower on July 3, 2000, which was the 137th anniversary of the final day of the
Battle of Gettysburg. The demolition was done for free for the
National Park Service. The tower was felled by of explosives in front of a crowd of 10,000.
World Trade Center site On September 22, 2001, eleven days after the
9/11 attacks, a preliminary cleanup plan for the
World Trade Center site was delivered by Controlled Demolition, Inc. in which Mark Loizeaux, president of CDI, emphasized the importance of protecting the
slurry wall (known as "
the bathtub") which kept the
Hudson River from flooding the WTC's basement.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 The tower was disassembled during late 2007 and early 2008. Demolition of the Mobile Service Structure (MSS), by means of a controlled explosion, occurred on 2008-04-27.
National Geographic Channel: Man Made: Rocket Tower has a full episode on the demolition
Martin Tower Martin Tower, the 21-story world headquarters building of defunct
Bethlehem Steel and the tallest building in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was imploded by Controlled Demolition on May 19, 2019, at a reported cost of $575,000. The demolition occurred on July 4, 2021, after only a day of preparation, including placement of explosives; city officials had feared that the demolition could take weeks. As the still-standing structure was unstable, it was considered unsafe to enter and CDI had originally estimated that the demolition could not occur until the following day, since the work had to be done carefully and slowly to avoid a premature collapse. This risk of collapse and its risk to rescuers warranted the controlled demolition, which was directed away from the original collapse footprint.
Kingda Ka On February 28, 2025, CDI demolished the top hat tower of the
Kingda Ka roller coaster at
Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey. ==Other projects==