Latest Hydraulic Attachment Technology Brings Down Hospital Complex

Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius said: “The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another.” That maxim is currently being proven out with the demolition of a 126-year-old hospital complex in Rusk, TX. Initially built as a state penitentiary, it was later converted to a mental health facility and spent most of its history in that capacity. Viewed as long past the point of renovation, the structure is being razed to make way for a new $200 million, 623-acre mental health campus in this east-central Texas community.

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