After 9 Years, Supertech Twins Tower To Be Demolish

The vibration of the blast will be felt 30 meters...

Ahead of the demolition of Supertech's Twins Tower, it has been over nine years since residents first went to court against Supertech's twin towers in Noida's Sector 93A, it will take just over nine seconds to demolish them this Sunday. Trivia says the towers are taller than the Qutub Minar, but for the residents of Emerald Court, the structure was a monstrosity.

The residents told the court that the towers 100 metres tall with 40 floors each are coming up in a green space promised when they bought their houses in the society. More serious violations of norms were found too.

Taking notes from the construction, the builder planned to have 900 flats, more than two-thirds of which he'd sold by the time the Supreme Court stamped the demolition order last August. Demolish the towers in three months, said the court; but technical difficulties — the safety of adjacent apartment buildings mainly — kept delaying it.

Ultimately, the Noida authorities and Supertech contracted a company called Edifice Engineering. It has had success in similar projects abroad. Meanwhile, some of the floors were demolished with manual labour to make the eventual blast-and-fall relatively less intense.

Apex (32 floors) and Ceyane (29 floors) will collapse "like a waterfall", with the trigger scheduled for 2.30 pm, August 28. That'll be the end of the illegal project — once billed as among the biggest in the region, covering 7.5 lakh square feet.

Numbers remain huge in its demise too.

As per the reports, the blast will take 3,700 kg of explosives, with nearly 20,000 connections to its pillars, triggering "one-tenth of a Magnitude-4 earthquake". "Noida is designed for earthquakes of up to 6 on the Richter Scale, so it should be safe," Mayur Mehta, Edifice's project engineer. Vibrations will be felt to about 30 metres.