Whenever a demolition job is carried out there's always the environmentally-unfriendly jobs of transporting the materials left over off-site and to appropriate locations either for tipping and recycling. For a Science Block demolition at The Heath Business and Technical Park, that wasn't a problem, as 96.5% of the waste materials got reused to build a new structure on-site.
Helen Schoelzel, Safety Health and Environment Manager at SOG Ltd. the company that owns the business park, said:
"We set a number of targets when we began this project, including a 100% record on health and safety, and minimising the amount of material that would need to go to landfill."
They achieved both. No health and safety breaches and no accidents were reported during the job. The recycling percentage speaks for itself and is unheard of in the industry until now.
The team that carried out the work soft-stripped the building of fittings, all wood, and metal. What was left was a concrete shell that got demolished and crushed on site before being re-used in the new build along with all the wood and metal available from the old building.
Due to the error-free nature of the job it managed to earn Windmill Group (UK) Ltd. a specially commissioned figure of a glass bulldozer created by glassblower Paul LePinnet. As the picture above shows, comedian Ken Dodd was on hand to present it.
Not only is this great for the environment, but others should look into the potential cost benefits of performing such recycling services on-site. If a new building is already planned to go in place of the old one, it seems like a much better idea to leave the site with a supply of crushed brick and aggregates rather than tranbsporting it as waste off-site.
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