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Over 3,700 kg of explosives are being used to implode the Apex and the Ceyane towers in Noida.

Noida, Aug. 28 (PTI): The Supertech twin towers in Noida were demolished on Sunday, a year after the Supreme Court’s direction to raze the illegally built structures to the ground. The nearly 100-metre-high structures taller than Delhi’s iconic Qutub Minar (73 metres) were brought to the ground in seconds literally like a house of cards by the ‘waterfall implosion’ technique, in a breathtaking spectacle of modern day engineering. Minutes after the demolition, the nearby buildings appeared to be safe. The Apex (32 floors) and Ceyane (29 floors) towers were under construc...

There appeared to be no damage to the buildings adjacent to the Supertech twin towers in Noida which were demolished Sunday afternoon on the Supreme Court’s directions, officials said. However, a more detailed audit is underway.

Noida twin tower demolition: The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) had installed six machines to measure the ambient noise and the figures of the three places closest to the twin towers were taken for this measurement, officials said.

Noida twin towers: A series of controlled explosions reduced the illegally built twin towers to a massive pile of rubble. Apex (32 storeys) and Ceyane (29 storeys) were gone in seconds, in the carefully choreographed and meticulously executed plan — the biggest such exercise in the country so far.