The DuPont building is now two towers that from the outside look identical, but Weiss states that is not the case.
Bruce Weiss, Chuck Egan and many others literally had a blast with the design and construction of the new addition to the Nemours/A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del.
Neither Weiss, the project engineer from Madison, Wis.-based Affiliated Engineers who designed the project, and Egan, the hospital’s MEP project manager, had ever been involved with a project that required the use of explosives. So, they and the rest of the project’s team made sure to let the children — many of whom are struggling with serious illnesses — “take part” in the controlled explosions.