All wrapped up

The tall 13 storey building in the middle of this picture all wrapped in white is St Nicholas House - the old HQ for the Town council and now abandoned and in the middle of being demolished and started today.

Scaffolding was erected around the chimney on top of the 1960s building, which formerly housed Aberdeen City Council's headquarters. The chimney will be dismantled by hand, before machines are brought in to demolish the rest of the building.

Demolition machinery – four Brokks and a Bobcat – will be hoisted up the side of the building and used to take the building down floor by floor during the critical phase of the demolition project.

These remote-control demolition machines will be used to deconstruct St Nicholas House floor by floor, from the top down. Each floor will be propped, before the machines are used to demolish each level by "nibbling" the concrete, and drop the material down the lift shaft in a controlled manner. Supporting columns will then be pulled down and the operation will move to the next floor.

The material will then be taken into the area formerly occupied by the Underpass Gallery. It will take approximately two weeks to take down each floor. Perhaps I will need to take a few more photos over the time.