Changing the face of Charleston : The unbuilding of the Grace and Pearman Bridges
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January 2, 2007: The final cleanup

Its a new year and its clean up time. Three piers to go.

Here is the worksite

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Another view with the Ravenel Bridge in the background

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The last of the unbuilding - the Grace roadway skeleton

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Unbuilding takes time

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Multiprocessing - Carlos and Stan unbuilding in parallel

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Unbuilding the recently built temporary support. Would probably sell as a very creative sculpture

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Unbuilding the support columns

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Another view of parallel unbuilding

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The base of the recently built support foundation

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Carlos and his soft touch

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And Stan's soft touch

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Unbuilding the roadway skeleton

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and more burning

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A view from below - where Pio used to walk

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an interesting pattern of hot steel droplets

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And view of the worksite with the Ravenel Bridge in the background

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