When cracks appeared in the Historic Palace Hotel yesterday afternoon BCL immediately mobilised our deformation monitoring team to the site. Amid real fears for the immediate and catastrophic collapse of the building our team quickly assessed the requirements of engineers and implemented a remote deformation array on the building facade. Within ten minutes we where able to begin streaming information back to the contractor, engineers, Council, politicians, historic places, media and the demolition crew.



This stream of extremely accurate and consistent information continued throughout the evening with the hope that we would see some slowing in the collapse of the building. Finally the Auckland Council CEO Mr Doug McKay made the very difficult and very sad decision to demolish the hotel. Our team completed their work and watched with sadness as the demolition progressed through the night.

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