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World News - A 220-tonne, centuries-old building in Canada was relocated with the help of 700 soap bars. The unconventional move of the Elmwood building in Halifax city on the east coast province of Nova Scotia was done by construction company S. Rushton in early... Read more at www.tnp.sg

The idea isn't new. Utah applied about 16 gallons of Dawn dish soap earlier this year to shift a bridge 110 feet.

As Sheldon Rushton prepared to move a 440,000-pound building earlier this month, he realized he was missing a crucial piece of equipment: soap. Rushton's construction company had been tasked with moving a nearly 200-year-old Canadian building a few feet to make space for a new apartment complex. Construction workers dug under the building and inserted more than a dozen steel beams for support. The company brought a tow truck and two excavators to move the structure.Subscribe to The Post Mos...

A former hotel in Canada’s Nova Scotia has been saved from demolition and moved using an unusual method – hundreds of bars of soap.

A construction firm successfully relocated a former hotel in Nova Scotia using 700 bars of soap.

The building, initially established as a house in 1826 and later converted into the Victorian Elmwood Hotel in 1896, narrowly escaped demolition in 2018.

Two excavators and a tow truck, in tandem with Ivory soaps, allowed the Elmwood building to glide across a steel frame.

A former hotel in Nova Scotia was moved by a construction firm with help from 700 bars of soap.

A former hotel in Nova Scotia was moved by a construction firm with help from 700 bars of soap.