Project Highlights:
Atlantic Concrete Cutting was contracted to use diamond wire saws to slice away the two radiology rooms from the rest of Building C at Reading Hospital to prepare it for demolition. These rooms were constructed with 28” thick walls and a 60” thick roof to block x-rays. To separate the rooms, the left-hand wall and ceiling had to be cut, then the back of the middle wall between the rooms, then the back ceiling of both rooms, and finally the right-hand wall and ceiling. Cutting was done with a special foam instead of water because other demolition was being done in the area and water runoff would have caused problems. These pictures are of the second phase after the buildings had been separated and removed. Atlantic returned to wire saw the remaining left-hand wall and back wall from the existing building.


No, the white foam isn't shaving cream - it's
a foam designed to prevent the concrete dust
from contaminating the air while minimizing
the amount of water needed.





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