Score Selective Teardowns on Tight Deadlines
Fourteen weeks, one composition. A visual demolition score where every salvage window, recycling stream, and structural cut becomes musical notation — keeping impossible urban timelines on beat.
The upper deck is a cantilevered concrete bowl with 22,000 seats, and the county wants the original scoreboard preserved intact for a museum installation. Your crew has 14 weeks before the site becomes a mixed-use development pad — and every ton of pre-stressed concrete you crush on-site instead of trucking out saves the client money and keeps you under the daily haul limit. Demolition Symphony Planner maps each section of curved steel and post-tensioned concrete onto a visual score, inserting salvage windows for the scoreboard extraction and recycling cadences for the crush-and-sort operation. Every cut is timed against the cantilever's shifting load path, and the entire 14-week program reads as one continuous composition.
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