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The Cudecom Building

The Cudecom building was built in 1955 in the city of Bogota, this building designed by the engineer Medardo Serna Vallejo had a mixed design, for housing and commercial use, a height of 8 floors and a total weight of more than 7 tons between steel and concrete.

Relocation of the building

In 1973, the city of Bogota had a project to expand Avenue 19, this main road crossed right where the Cudecom building and some more houses were located , the city bought these properties to proceed to its demolition, but before the demolition the engineer Antonio Paéz Restrepo proposed to the district a solution, which consisted of moving the Cudecom building (a mass of almost 8 tons), 29 meters to the south, this project took a year of studies and structural calculations, but on October 6 1974 After 10 hours of movement on metal rollers

specially designed to move the building and a team of more than 450 people the task ended successfully at 6:06:50 in the afternoon.

Guinness world Records

This engineering task earned the engineer Antonio Paéz Restrepo a recognition in the Guinness world Records Book that lasted almost 30 years until 2004 for the heaviest structure relocation and also won the Colombian National Engineering Award in 1974.