Pods containing their engines hang on pylons from their wings.
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All eight of the train's cars derailed, some knocking over concrete pylons.
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Signs of civilisation are restricted to electricity pylons and the odd rundown farmhouse.
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View more historic photographs of electricity pylons online at the Science Museum, London.
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Nobody could find the pylons for the guy wires supporting the launch rail.
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More than 1,300 pounds of explosives were mostly packed into the towers' pylons.
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"Pylon spotters" have formed the Pylon Appreciation Society — a "club for people who appreciate electricity pylons" (member benefits including a field guide to British pylons and a badge) — and the Pylon of the Month site offers a regular visual fix.
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The state-owned electricity monopoly, whose 700 pylons came crashing down, is especially inept.
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Militants have targeted government installations, security forces, gas pipelines, railway tracks and electricity pylons.
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The rods or stays suspended the roadway from a series of towering concrete pylons.
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The precarious height of pylons means they can be hazards during earthquakes and storms.
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This asymmetrical load on one side of the pylons placed stress on the structure.
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"Enemy forces have brought machine saws and have been cutting down electricity pylons," he said.
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Others showed bashed-in houses in Athens, Georgia and toppled electrical pylons in Ocoee, Tennessee.
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The plans show metal-roofed, brick buildings raised on pylons and fitted with solar panels.
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I would love to see pylons or cell towers embraced and turned into utilitarian sculptures.
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And they almost couldn't help but look beautiful, with their slender pylons and radiating cables.
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The pylons are built of solid concrete up to the height of the bridge deck.
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Some docks behind Carolina Boulevard are stripped of their timber, with only their pylons remaining.
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The company is now looking at where it will place its pylons and doing soil tests.
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Mozambique was hit by a powerful cyclone which knocked out communications and electricity pylons last week.
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The designer, 56, sat facing me, wearing black boots with platform soles as high as pylons.
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In the 1930s, Stephen Spender, one of the "pylon poets" who responded to England's newly industrial landscapes, wrote in "The Pylons": Now over these small hills, they have built the concrete That trails black wire Pylons, those pillars Bare like nude giant girls that have no secret.
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Paul: There are these enormous dusty mountains and there were 30 massive pylons all in a row.
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They have small pylons on the corners that automatically snap to other units to create a circuit.
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We walked until we got to the row of pointy pylons marking the end of Closed Beach.
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The government accused the Taliban of destroying pylons that support the cables, though the militants denied doing so.
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Meanwhile, Facebook rebuilt the floor with 3 feet of concrete, supported by 100 pylons and supported by steel rebars.
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Pylons and tangles of bramble high as houses tower over a lonely oil drum and a collapsed metal fence.
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Challenges included buying the land needed to build cable-car stations and pylons, and gaining the trust of communities.
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According to the stories, three men died during construction after they fell into the brick pylons of the bridge.
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Pylons with their skeletal grace, draped with connecting wires, have both a fascination and a dread in their power.
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And a pedestrian bridge being built on pylons left from I-195 will connect the district to College Hill.
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Tohoku Electric said it discovered the tampering in October and has checked about 270 pylons in the same area.
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It has not been able to check all pylons as snow has made it difficult to access some areas.
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A second bridge deck, hung from a second pair of pylons on the Queens side, will take its place.
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To correct the imbalance, the next deck section and cables were installed on the opposite side of the pylons.
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The tower, set in rolling grassland on his 2390-acre farm, was overgrown with vines snaking up its pylons.
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On the way, they tore up the railway from Heisden to Hasselt, knocked down electric pylons and overturned traffic lights.
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But those pylons won't do any damage to the plane if the pilot makes a mistake and accidentally hits one.
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In a painstaking rescue mission, the exhausted miners were hoisted up one by one after temporary power pylons were installed.
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In the ensuing months, the jihadis murdered hundreds of people who tried to escape, and hung bodies from electrical pylons.
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It said the jets had seven pylons for external weapons loads, enabling it to carry 2,000 pounds of external weapons.
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For the new bridge to overcome those conditions, thousands upon thousands of pylons were driven into the seabed for stability.
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No safety issues have risen and the company has taken steps to reinforce the pylons where needed, a spokesman said.
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The company builds the plane&aposs fuselage, thrust reversers, engine pylons, and wing components, under contract to Boeing&aposs specifications.
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That's when our then-newfangled electrical systems shocked telegraph operators, shot sparks out of pylons, and lit papers on fire.
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Between the twin 287-foot-high pylons is a "pier table" — the crossbar in a giant H. It is strong enough that a 20-foot length of bridge deck could be cantilevered from it, like a rigid diving board, and remain hanging in air until secured to the pylons by a pair of cables.
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The aircraft is expected to carry AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, interchangeable with the SDBs on its wing pylons, AFSOC has said.
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Let us introduce you to Funderburgh's Three Pylons, which we believe best illustrates the sentiments behind the launch of FUTURE FORWARD.
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Strong wind of up to 140 kph (87 mph) battered the densely populated coast, uprooting trees and bringing down electricity pylons.
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Using remote-control joysticks, they navigated small X-shaped drones around pylons and beneath shopping carts, each vying for the lead.
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High-tension wires dive down into a substation from steel pylons, bringing with them enough megawatts to power a small city.
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This test will only address the latter and it will not include pods or pylons to support a future Hyperloop One system.
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Inside each pylon, adjustable lateral and vertical dampers would absorb small changes between pylons caused by extremes of temperature or shifting ground.
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In current grids, as electricity travels long distances from power plants to electricity pylons to meters, some power gets lost, he said.
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That could be done either by mounting them on pylons extending from below the wing, or by attaching them to the fuselage.
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E.ON's focus on pylons, poles and wires means that 80% of its operating earnings will come from regulated businesses, up from 65%.
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Photos posted to social media appear to show the pilot suspended between two pylons, damage to a farmhouse, and badly scorched ground.
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After days on the ferries, I knew to follow the long strings of wooden briccole, the log pylons that indicate navigable channels.
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Mr. Kader said the immense complex of pylons, columns, colossi and obelisks was patched together by pharaohs over more than 1,500 years.
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City officials and scientists have investigated various potential causes of the hums, including industrial plants, electricity pylons, mating fish, and even mass hysteria.
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In particular, the footprint of their pylons is smaller, because each DC cable can carry far more power than an equivalent AC cable.
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They were hoisted to surface on Friday after temporary power line pylons were installed by Sibanye-Stillwater and Eskom, the country's power utility.
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Spanish competitor Cellnext, which recently bought 230 pylons from Bouygues, is seen as a potential bidder as it seeks to expand in Europe.
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It ranks among the world's biggest suspension bridges, in terms of width of deck, height of pylons as well as length of span.
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Ukrainian militias last year sabotaged electricity pylons that power Crimea, and some of them are involved in criminal activity and human rights violations.
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Around Kuchurgan, under a web of pylons and electricity lines, plots of land are being readied for cryptocurrency miners to build industrial farms.
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Mr. Fassnidge agreed that there is something about the pylons GIF that makes it particularly easy to imagine what it might sound like.
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Pay attention to the pylons along the side of the road—the entire ride is timed to the chill vibes of "Singa" by Topaz.
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Rome has enlisted the help of state-controlled utility Enel to use its pipes and pylons to lay fibre-optic cables throughout the country.
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In 1,000 historic photographs of electricity pylons shared by the Science Museum in London, a complex symbol of human progress rises above the landscape.
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The Science Museum in London tweeted on September 20 that they had just published 1,000 historic photographs of electricity pylons from around the world.
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"We had everything from leftists who wanted to sabotage electricity pylons to quasi neo-Nazis," said Hubert Kleinert, a political scientist and former lawmaker.
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Before the support pylons for the Hyperloop track can be built, soil samples will need to be taken to determine the stability of the ground.
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That depends on building hundreds of miles of tubes on pylons along a highway like I-7603, which the study identifies as the ideal location.
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The group, Mareamico, said state operator Anas had assured them the Agrigento viaduct was not at risk of collapse despite concrete flaking off its pylons.
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WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - There's nothing to see yet, but the outline is clearly visible: huge old pylons standing in line across the Anacostia River.
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ELECTRICITY pylons on the long, barren highway leading north of Whyalla, an industrial city in the state of South Australia, are festooned with campaign posters.
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Moore added that people viewing the fireworks around the harbor will see a donation link projected onto the Sydney Harbor Bridge pylons throughout the night.
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Of course, that depends on building hundreds of miles of tubes, either above ground on pylons along a highway like I-70, or through underground tunnels.
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"We are a non-political company and we serve the nation, so we ask all relevant sides not to damage our pylons and installations," he said.
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In Inhambane, some 500 km north of the capital Maputo, television footage showed roofs blown off houses, electricity pylons uprooted and trees sprawled across the streets.
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And it would be less expensive to build than the hyperloop, since there would be no tubes to install on raised pylons or tunnels to dig.
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With this information, contractors will be able to determine how deep the pylons will have to go in order to support the mass of the Hyperloop.
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In building its test track, Hyperloop Transportation will test the soil around Quay Valley to determine the best locations for the pylons to support the tube.
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For much of the 43th century, people tried to hold beaches in place by building groins — lines of rock or wood pylons protruding from the shore.
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Information pertaining to engine pylons, navigator positions, booms, loadmaster tasks and refueling missions, the crew chief will learn all these tasks, depending on their assigned airframe.
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"I reasoned that if I could lift out engines, pylons, landing gear, actuators, electricals, and cockpit stuff from 25s, it was doable for us," he says.
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The move comes as power utility Enel steps up plans to develop its own nationwide fibre network using the pipes and pylons of its distribution grid.
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The city is considering the effort a success so far, as it reports there have been fewer people crossing during red lights since the pylons went up.
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In a series of events around the world, pilots fly small, single-engine stunt planes at high speeds around giant inflatable pylons to set the fastest time.
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Just 6% of the 27 kilometres (16.8 miles) of the proposed Orange metro line would be underground; the rest would sail on pylons across the city's skyline.
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Alcoa, a leading producer of aluminium, recently said it would supply Airbus with 3D-printed titanium fuselage parts and the pylons used to attach engines to wings.
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Just how improbable was determined within seconds, by tracking devices embedded in the football, the players' shoulder pads and the goal-line pylons, among many other places.
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After his father dies, leaving plans for the bridge unfinished, Washington employs the advanced European technology, which allowed the construction of those monumental East River bridge pylons.
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Spirit makes more than 50% of its annual revenue building components for the 737 Max, including the plane&aposs fuselage, thrust reversers, engine pylons, and wing components.
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Cyclone Idai also follows Cyclone Favio, which battered southern Mozambique with winds of up to 230 kilometers, uprooting trees, knocking over electricity pylons and worsening deadly floods.
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The noisy pylons GIF, in that sense, reveals that "we have this unusual ability" — and that some of our daily soundtrack may actually be rooted in imagination.
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Drones are attracting interest in a related field, too: the inspection of buildings and other infrastructure, such as pipelines, wind turbines, electrical pylons, solar farms and offshore platforms.
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By building the tube on pylons, it would not need to be rigidly fixed at any point, and could therefore withstand an earthquake by shifting with the ground.
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Power supplies to the disputed Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, have been disrupted after electricity pylons were blown up by unknown saboteurs in November.
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Their style might be described as Romantic surrealism: characters wearing costumes inspired by the Flemish Renaissance move through an early-twentieth-century landscape of power stations and pylons.
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His bridge relies for stability on thousands of pylons driven into the seabed, and has double arches rising about 115 feet above the water to let ships pass.
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Building the tube on pylons above ground would have the benefit of saving money, providing protection from earthquakes and allowing solar panels to be placed on top, said Musk.
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The situation worsened on Saturday after a fall in electricity exports from Mozambique, which is cleaning up after a powerful cyclone knocked out communications and electricity pylons on Thursday.
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The bridge that snakes out over the blue estuary with soaring pylons, viaducts and towers using more steel than 60 Eiffel Towers, was first proposed in the late 1980s.
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The bridge across the Bosphorus Strait, which divides Asia and Europe, is built in the style of New York's Brooklyn Bridge and boasts pylons higher than the Eiffel Tower.
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The floor was completely removed and 100 pylons were inserted 60 feet into the bedrock underneath the building, which was then reinforced with rebar and 3 feet of concrete.
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HTT will be interviewing potential contractors for the many portions of the corridor that will need to be built, including pylons, tubes, capsules and stations for the Quay Valley track.
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Originally the brainchild of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, Hyperloop transportation consists of sealed pods traveling at subsonic speeds in a low-pressure tube that's elevated above the ground on pylons.
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The hoped-for improvements in electricity were stymied by soaring demand, by antiquated, ill-maintained infrastructure and by the industrial-scale looting of copper wires from electricity pylons and cables.
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It was a shallow cone going down into the ground' and at the bottom were a lake and three feature restaurants on mirrored stainless-steel pylons with water coming down.
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Workers are digging test pylons for a charter school for kindergarten through eighth grade that is scheduled to open in 2018, two blocks from a college preparatory public high school.
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There, the filmmakers are greeted by a couple of pylons partially blocking the way forward, one or two parked cars and an atmosphere of stillness topped with confusion and dread.
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Also new to this year's Super Bowl are pylon cameras: eight high resolution cameras with high definition audio that will be affixed to the pylons on the edge of the endzone.
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The cockpit is perched on hydraulic pylons programmed to replicate the sensations of driving around each track on the racing calendar, as the view on the screen proceeds along the track.
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On Friday, Prepa's chief executive, Ricardo Ramos, said on CNBC that he was hopeful that the power plants — as opposed to the power lines, pylons, substations and transformers — may be intact.
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Wichita-based Spirit AeroSystems, which produces the fuselage, pylons, thrust reverser, wing leading edges, and engine nacelles for the Max, earns 80 percent of its revenue from Boeing, according to Reuters.
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On the outskirts of Loíza, several concrete pylons that once held power lines lie shattered on the side of the road, a loose tangle of metallic rebar sticking up from the wreckage.
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Older planes just put all that non-stealthy stuff on pylons attached to the wings, but that sticks out on radar like a sore thumb and would ruin the plane's stealth mojo.
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But the nuclear plant's power lines played havoc with her microphones and she ended up producing a record filled as much with the buzzes of electricity pylons as the chatter of birds.
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Then, an inherent imbalance had to be corrected, since the main span is 624 feet long, while the back span, on the other side of the pylons, is only 377 feet long.
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The company plans to run these tubes along pylons, which should be easy enough, and lets it avoid some of the engineering work that comes with laying heavy rail tracks along the ground.
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They have some physical assets such as data centres, but unlike utilities their main resources are not pylons, pipes and property, but software and ideas that they create or acquire by buying rivals.
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A fallen tree, a sinkhole, a string of strange pylons, a flash flood, a fire or some other obstruction on a lonely road could make an autonomous car stop safely, but then what?
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The utility, which provides electricity to customers in a region north of Tokyo, said it found specifications data on electricity transmission pylons had been tampered to show they met the company's internal standards.
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Outside Swat's main city of Mingora, where the Taliban once hanged opponents from electricity pylons, one businessman is ploughing $1.5 million into a 13-floor hotel with 60 rooms and a miniature zoo.
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Abdul Satar Barez, the provincial governor of Baghlan, said operations to secure the area in order to allow repair crews to work on the pylons had been suspended due to fog and bad weather.
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Pylons were placed at each end of both 10-yard lines, marking the front of the end zone, and at each end of both normal goal lines (for the back of the end zone).
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This was a crucial element of the spec, allowing the tube to lay over a series of concrete pylons with minimal footprint, hopping over mountains, and even running up the median of I-10.
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Their aim is to free up their renewables businesses, allowing them to thrive relatively unencumbered by debts, while underpinning their earnings with boring but reliable returns from running electricity down pylons, poles and wires.
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To make way for the buses, workers will have to drill holes in the roadway to hold the yellow, rubber pylons that will serve as a temporary divider between the inbound and outbound traffic.
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To get from here to there requires huge amounts of investment over the next few decades, to replace old smog-belching power plants and to upgrade the pylons and wires that bring electricity to consumers.
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The track used in today's test is on simple embankments, and while Hyperloop One imagines it eventually being elevated on top of pylons, they'll be far larger than the narrow columns initially proposed by Musk.
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The explosions centred on two pylons holding up the surviving spans of the viaduct as cannons shot water over the 20,000 cubic metres of steel and concrete to prevent the clouds of dust engulfing the city.
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Television pictures showed raging, muddy rivers - swollen by torrential rain - that had uprooted trees, knocked over concrete power pylons and swept away cars in the southern region of Aude, near the medieval hilltop city of Carcassonne.
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For decades — foiled by war, corruption, political bickering and global financial turmoil — work never got much further on the bridge than abandoned concrete pylons and two bronze angels overlooking the glittering waters of the Adriatic Sea.
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Rather than being enmeshed in a creaky Erector Set, drivers on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will travel between two tapered concrete pylons that rise from the Brooklyn shore and open like arms to embrace the sky.
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Just 2377 cables, splayed outward from the pylons, support the six-lane bridge deck, which is 24 feet above mean high water — or 2000 feet lower than the current bridge, which required infamously steep approach ramps.
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The explosions centered on two pylons holding up the surviving spans of the viaduct as cannons shot water over the 20,000 cubic meters of steel and concrete to prevent the clouds of dust engulfing the city.
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Mirwais Alami, chief commercial officer at Afghanistan's national power company, said that power supplies were reconnected on Monday evening after technicians repaired pylons in the Dand Shahabuddin district of Baghlan province destroyed at the end of January.
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The tubes can be built on elevated pylons, underground, through the ocean or at ground-level, and the pod will be roughly the size of a subway car; the tube would be the diameter of a subway tunnel.
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Despite being an ocean away, the memorial's two pylons have appeared on Canadian bank notes and are so well known that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation used the monument's silhouette as the logo for its broadcast on the anniversary.
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You know the kind of look I'm talking about — a shirt with Mario on it, a pair of Sonic the Hedgehog shoes, an Overwatch hat, a mug that says something like "I'd rather be building additional pylons" on it.
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The sale of FPS, established as the main competitor to French operator TDF in 2012 with the purchase of 2,000 mobile phone pylons from Bouygues Telecom, could raise around 1 billion euros ($1.10 billion), according to the industry newsletter.
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The machine weighs 60,000 pounds, which is one of the reasons Facebook had to tear up the lab's floor during construction and reinforce it with more than 100 concrete and steel pylons that extend 60 feet into the earth.
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The company is also spending heavily on rolling out an ultrafast broadband network in Italy, hoping to fend off growing competition from the likes of power utility Enel which plans to use its pylons and ducts to lay fibre optic cables.
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These superficialities nonetheless give way to vibrant accounts of airplane racing, with the women speeding around the country, crossing oceans, making fantastic turns around hazardous pylons and flying so high into the air that they carry oxygen tanks beside them.
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Phanfone continued to sweep west across the islands of the Eastern Visayas region, southern Luzon and Western Visayas on Wednesday, toppling electricity pylons and trees, tearing off roofs, damaging homes and causing widespread travel disruption over the busy Christmas period.
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Phanfone swept west across the islands of the Eastern Visayas region, southern Luzon and Western Visayas on Wednesday, toppling electricity pylons and trees, tearing off roofs, damaging more than 2,000 homes and causing widespread travel disruption over the busy Christmas period.
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This has been an obvious concern for the F-35's designers, so they've incorporated an ability to attach pylons to the wings to carry more stuff if the need arises and circumstances permit — although it costs the plane it's stealthiness.
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Mirwais Alami, chief commercial officer at Afghanistan's national power company, said repair crews had been unable to get close to the power lines because of mines and the threat from insurgents and said residents reported that more pylons had been brought down.
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In addition, electricity and mobile phone bills, which the insurgents collect in return for leaving power pylons and phone masts alone, and small levies on businesses selling daily necessities such as bakeries or flour mills, weave Taliban authority firmly into everyday life.
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Just beneath the surface at the Eureka rig, sea lions prowl in the crystal clear waters; half a dozen species of rockfish and bright orange Garibaldi swim in the swift currents; and florid carpets of invertebrates and crustaceans cling to the rig's pylons.
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A project from the Death Lab in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University imagines a memorial space where the departed are suspended in vessels on steel pylons, the energy from their decomposing biomass powering individual lights.
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A tour with the guide Renato Goes takes you there first, and then to the Outdoor Museum of Urban Art — where works are spray-painted onto the pylons under an elevated subway line — and downtown, where creations cover entire sides of buildings.
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Since his death, tributes to Bryant have appeared across the Los Angeles area, with his numbers displayed on the Santa Monica Pier Ferris wheel, city buses bearing "RIP Kobe" signs and purple and gold lights added to the pylons at LAX airport.
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HyperloopTT says its test track will be built in two phases: a closed 320-meter system that will be operational this year, and a 1-kilometer-long full-scale system, elevated by pylons at a height of 5.8 meters to be completed in 2019.
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That should help Italy's biggest phone group fend off rising competition in high-speed Internet infrastructure, especially from power utility Enel, which is seeking to establish itself as a credible rival by proposing to use its pylons and ducts to lay fibre optic cables.
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Dinwiddie, who played at Taft High in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, beat Lauri Markkanen of the Chicago Bulls in the final round of the skills challenge, which included dribbling around pylons, passing the ball into a net and shooting 3-pointers.
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For a few weeks in 2015, he slept on a Murphy bed in the home of a family living on Pioneer Street in Red Hook, while he taught their 7-year-old son how to dig holes for pylons to support a new back deck.
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But I was working on a song based on how every time I go into a massive big-box store, with those massive concrete floors, I feel like … my life's energy gets sucked out through my ears into the concrete, down to the pylons in the substructure.
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Our story begins in South Australia, in September 2016, when an apocalyptic storm — involving 80,103 lightning strikes and at least two tornadoes — knocked down dozens of electricity pylons, causing cascading failures throughout the regional electricity grid and casting virtually the entire state of 1.7 million residents into darkness.
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Spirit, which makes the MAX fuselage, pylons, thrust reverser, wing leading edges and engine nacelles, has continued to churn out parts for the jet at a rate of up to 52 units per month, even as Boeing cut its own production to 42 per month earlier this year.
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Instead, it turns the era's simple, white-walled asceticism to its advantage through abrupt shifts in scale and visual rhythms; a lively interchange of floor sculptures, table vitrines, and pylons of CRT monitors; and framed photos mounted in rows, columns, clusters, and grids, some slightly asymmetrical to deliver a syncopated kick.
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Described by AFSOC officials as "the ultimate battle plane" and "a bomb truck with guns on it," the Ghostrider comes with the standard 105mm cannon and an additional 30mm GAU-23/A cannon, along with wing pylons designed for both GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles.
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Called the Carrington Event, after Richard Carrington, who observed and recorded it, this geomagnetic storm caused telegraph pylons and railroad rails to spark, shocked telegraph operators and was responsible for auroras visible at least as far south as Havana, Cuba, with some claims of auroras being observed near the Earth's equator.
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There's an obvious reason that the Ghostrider has been in such high demand: The gunship comes equipped with the standard 105 mm cannon and an additional 30 mm GAU-23/A cannon, along with wing pylons designed to haul both GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles.
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Looking for the nearest open space was instinctive, but to my surprise it didn't turn out to be one of the ornate gardens or parks of Harrogate's center but a patch of vacant land a mile the other way, strewn with pylons and threaded with the varicose vein of an ancient river.
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Founded chiefly by Amenhotep III and originally dedicated to Amon-Re, the complex was modified and enlarged by rulers, including Ramses II. In the 19th century, its pylons, halls and courts were still mired in detritus: Nightingale was unsettled by the temple's "dim unearthly colonnades" when she visited on New Year's Eve in 1849.
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That's an alluring factor for an Indian government looking to reduce carbon emissions by 33-35 percent within the next 13 years New materials are also being integrated into HTT's designs, including cement that absorbs carbon dioxide and produces oxygen, vertical gardens around pylons, and a system that absorbs dew from air and releases water to farmers.
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For decades, it has reshaped the game and its rules to create the most exciting and cinematic show: kinetic live-action drama, a pageant of speed and violence and guts and glory, captured from every imaginable angle by a dozen or more cameras, including those that whiz above the gridiron on zip lines and others mounted at ground level inside end-zone pylons.
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Our itinerary included a motorboat ride to Philae, begun by a pharaoh in the fourth century B.C. and abandoned by pagans in the sixth century A.D. As we meandered through its courtyard, pylons and sanctuary with our guide, Ahmed A. Kader, an Egyptologist, it became clear that this trip was going to be filled with a bewildering array of dynasties and deities.
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Scientists and divers have been aware of the abundant life here for years, but a 2014 paper that Dr. Love co-wrote, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, confirmed what many experts had already suspected: that most of the life was actually created at the rig rather than having come from other parts of the ocean and settled around the massive concrete pylons.
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"To my knowledge, it is the first time that this kind of work has been done in so little time and in a city center, at least in Italy," said Vittorio Omini, a demolition expert and owner of one of the companies that engineered the explosion as well as the dismantling of hundreds of feet of bridge deck and pylons that withstood last summer's collapse.
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