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High quality video footage of the demolition currently underway at Apple's Campus 2 build site in Cupertino, Calif., was posted to the Web on Monday, with the short clip showing what appears to be the complete teardown process of an entire building.
The video, uploaded to YouTube by an unknown user posting under the name "Apple Internal," clearly shows the demolition of a building located along Ridgeview Ct., one of the main arteries running through the site.
Judging by the footage, the video was likely shot sometime last year when initial demolition of the old Hewlett-Packard campus began. Apple received final approval to go ahead with plans to demolish existing structures in November of 2013.
More recent aerial photos of the area published earlier in March show a barren construction site with almost every building razed to the ground. Also gone are the concrete roadways, trees and other installations, leaving a large dirt expanse in the far northeast corner of Cupertino.
Campus 2 was first unveiled by late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs in 2011, who is said to have played a major role in the planning and design of the new company headquarters.
The crown jewel of the build, a gigantic ring-shaped "spaceship" structure, will house some 12,000 employees, while ancillary facilities are to provide meeting and presentation space. Surrounding the main building will be roving footpaths, bike paths and indigenous foliage.
Construction of Apple's Campus 2 is expected to be completed by 2016.
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They couldn't salvage all that glass to be recycled?
I [quote name="WelshDog" url="/t/171446/new-video-footage-shows-initial-demolition-at-apples-campus-2-site#post_2499372"]They couldn't salvage all that glass to be recycled?[/quote] I could be wrong but building glass is normally not recyclable because of what is in the glass (tinting, UV protection, lamination, tempering, etc. I could be wrong. Here's a URL to an article that backs up that assumption: http://1800recycling.com/2011/09/window-glass-recycling-difficult-not-impossible/
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I could be wrong but building glass is normally not recyclable because of what is in the glass (tinting, UV protection, lamination, tempering, etc. I could be wrong. Here's a URL to an article that backs up that assumption:
http://1800recycling.com/2011/09/window-glass-recycling-difficult-not-impossible/
Yeah, pretty sure you're right about that.
Anyways, that video was suhweeeet. For some reason, I always find building demolitions very cool, whether they are like this one with a teardown, or implosions. I can watch that stuff all day! :)
Oh, PS: The link to the March 16 story with the pics has an "%22" at the end which makes it lead to a 404 error.
Is that another official Apple YouTube channel?
[quote name="WelshDog" url="/t/171446/new-video-footage-shows-initial-demolition-at-apples-campus-2-site#post_2499372"]They couldn't salvage all that glass to be recycled?[/quote] Don't know about the glass specifically, but they do make use of all material according to the project plan: https://s3.amazonaws.com/apple-campus2-project/Project_Description_Submittal7.pdf [quote]The sloping site will be re-graded to provide a level ground floor for the Main Building...Apple will expand its current waste management program, which achieves a diversion rate of 78%. During construction of Apple Campus 2, the goal is to divert construction and demolition waste from landfills by finding multiple alternative uses, such as recycling, reuse on site or on other sites. Key elements of the waste management program during operations are the increase of material reuse, recycling from solid waste sources and composting.[/quote] [quote name="SolipsismX" url="/t/171446/new-video-footage-shows-initial-demolition-at-apples-campus-2-site#post_2499592"]Is that another official Apple YouTube channel?[/quote] Hard to say with just one post, but I don't think Apple will ever lower themselves to have 'their own YouTube channel'. It's a place filled with ill-....ah, Wiki tells it so much better than me: [quote]User comments See also: [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google#YouTube_user_comments]Criticism of Google#YouTube user comments[/URL] Most videos enable users to leave comments, and these have attracted attention for the negative aspects of both their form and content. In 2006, Time praised Web 2.0 for enabling "community and collaboration on a scale never seen before", and added that YouTube "harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred". The Guardian in 2009 described users' comments on YouTube as: “ Juvenile, aggressive, misspelled, sexist, homophobic, swinging from raging at the contents of a video to providing a pointlessly detailed description followed by a LOL, YouTube comments are a hotbed of infantile debate and unashamed ignorance – with the occasional burst of wit shining through.[/quote]