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Mark Loizeaux took a degree in business administration at the University of Tennessee, where he also studied architectural engineering. Apart from never having “done anything constructive in our entire history”, the Loizeaux family set many world records, including imploding the largest single building (the J.L. Hudson department store in Detroit, 134 metres tall and 200,000 square metres). Other major blasts starred in movies such as Mars Attacks!, Lethal Weapon 3, Enemy of the State

We all love to watch buildings being demolished – does it still give you a thrill?

Not a thrill exactly. I would call it tremendously…

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