Noida: The Twin Towers of Supertech located in Sector 93A of Noida were demolished on Sunday afternoon. The action came a year after the Supreme Court ordered the demolition of this illegally constructed structure. The tower, about 100 meters high, was detonated and demolished in a few seconds. The twin tower, a skyscraper higher than Delhi’s iconic Qutub Minar (73 meters), was brought down with the help of the ‘waterfall implosion’ technique. An estimated 80,000 tons of debris was released from the demolition of the Twin Towers and a huge plume of dust was seen in the air during the explosion.
The Twin Towers were the tallest structures ever demolished in India. The ‘Apex’ (32 floors) and ‘Cyan’ (29 floors) towers were under construction since 2009 within the Supertech Emerald Court Housing Society in Sector 93A, Noida, adjoining the national capital Delhi. More than 3,700 kg of explosives were used to demolish the building. 915 residential apartments, including 40 stories and 21 shops, were proposed in the twin towers.
About 5,000 people from the Emerald Court and ATS Village, two societies located near them, were evacuated before both towers were demolished. In addition, around 3,000 vehicles and 150-200 pets, including cats and dogs, were also removed. According to estimates, after the demolition of the twin tower, it will take about three months to remove 55 to 80 thousand tonnes of its debris.
Significantly, in August 2021, the Supreme Court ordered the demolition of the Twin Towers. The Supreme Court had termed this construction amidst the Emerald Court Society complex as a violation of rules. Mumbai’s Edifice Engineering was entrusted with the task of safely demolishing the nearly 100-meter-high twin tower on 28 August. The company had entered into an agreement with Jet Demolitions of South Africa for this risky work. The Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) was appointed by the apex court as the technical expert for the project.
This Engineering company had earlier demolished the Maradu Complex in Kochi (Kerala) in 2020, consisting of four residential buildings with 18 to 20 stories. In the year 2019, Jet Demolitions demolished the 108-meter-high Bank of Lisbon building in Johannesburg (South Africa), with several buildings within eight meters. Both these processes of demolition of buildings were carried out through the ‘implantation technique’.
