01:34 PM PDT on Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Compiled by kgw.com Staff

A company called Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) was in charge of the implosion of the Seattle Kingdome on March 26, 2000. This is the same company that is imploding the Trojan cooling tower.

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CDI spent 4-½ months designing the demolition plan. Eventually, a $9 million demolition contract was awarded to Aman Environmental Construction, Inc. (Aman) of Oakland, California who acted as the Prime Demolition Contractor with CDI’s implosion contract for the Kingdome.

The greatest technical challenge of the Kingdome Project was to control vibration generated by the fall of 125,000 tons of concrete debris onto a reclaimed section of Seattle whose water table was just a few feet below grade.