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Combining acquisitions of engineering firms Stubbs, Overbeck & Associates, AWARE Engineering and others, CDI formed CDI Engineering Group (now CDI Engineering Solutions) in 1996. [2] In March 1997, the company elected Mitch Wienick to the position of CEO and President, to replace the retiring Walter Garrison.
Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) is a controlled demolition firm headquartered in Phoenix, Maryland. The firm was founded by Jack Loizeaux who used dynamite to remove tree stumps in the Baltimore, Maryland area, and moved on to using explosives to take down chimneys, overpasses and small buildings in the 1940s. [ 1 ]
The podium of the building was a large parking garage with the homes beginning at 55 feet (17 m) above sea level. The completed building would stand 445 feet (136 m) tall and be one of the tallest structures in the Rio Grande Valley. [3] The building was designed to withstand extreme winds with three massively reinforced core walls. [4]
[9] [11] The building was dedicated on October 12, 1977. [12] [13] As part of Citicorp Center's construction, a new building for the site's previous occupant, St. Peter's Lutheran Church, was erected at the site's northwest corner; by agreement, it was supposed to be separate from the main tower.
Engineering the Impossible was a 2-hour special, created and written by Alan Lindgren and produced by Powderhouse Productions for the Discovery Channel. It focused on three incredible, yet physically possible, engineering projects: the nine-mile-long (14 km) Gibraltar Bridge, the 170-story Millennium Tower and the over 4,000-foot-long (1,200 m) Freedom Ship.
He kept the name "CDI", however it did not stand for anything. 1990 Mr. McKelvey took the company public, and changed the name to CDI College. 2003 It was subsequently sold to Corinthian Colleges, Inc., a large US based education company. 2007 Corinthian sold all the CDIs in Canada outside of Ontario to Vancouver-based Eminata Group.
CDI Corporation, an engineering services and employment agency in Philadelphia, PA; Cellular Dynamics International, an American research support company; Churchill Downs Incorporated, parent company of Churchill Downs; Controlled Demolition, Inc., a Phoenix, Maryland firm that specializes in controlled demolition
However, it was also criticised as lacking substance and failing to address "the historical, social and economic impact of these 10 buildings". [5] The Minneapolis Star Tribune highlighted the series 1 episode covering 10 Homes That Changed America for informativeness on "influential homes that transformed residential living".