Demolition phase underway
- Construction, LEED Certified
- February 10, 2010
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The large-scale exterior demolition phase of the project to construct a new Wishard for all of Indianapolis began in early February. The vacant former Larue D. Carter Psychiatric Hospital will be the first structure to come down on the site of the new Wishard.
One of the large machines that will be used to demolish the former Larue Carter facility.
Local contractor Denney Excavating will carry out the destructive demolition process, a months-long task that entails use of heavy machinery, including hydraulic-powered steel shears and concrete-crushing jaws to pinch structural members. Workers operated several pieces of equipment to begin toppling the upper floors at the end of the east wings of the long-vacant structure. They will dismantle the building in chunks from the outer wings toward the center and from the upper floors moving down to the foundation.