120 foot Abbey Court tower block is slowly getting shorter

Tower blocks are usually destined to be imploded, but there's situations where that's either not desirable or even possible. In the case of the 120-foot high Abber Court tower block in Lenton, Nottingham, a team of demolition workers from Total Reclaims are demolishing it a floor at a time.

Each day the team climbs up 16 flights of scaffolding stairs to reach the top and continue their work. It's already 28 feet shorter than when they started, which account for the top 4 floors.

In total the contract has created 24 jobs, including 4 apprentice positions, and is using a Brokks electro-hydraulic breaker to take down the concrete panels the building is constructed from one at a time. There was 17 floors in total, and when they get that down to 11 the crew moves out and the 360 Excavator moves in to finish the job quickly.

When the block is down, Nottingham City Homes will begin building 400 council homes.

Source: Nottingham Post

Local students visit Lenton blocks in Nottingham

C&D customer Total Reclaims is knocking down five tower blocks in Park Street and Lombard Close in Nottingham. They are known as the Lenton tower blocks and are being cleared for 142 new homes to built over the next 4 years.

17 lucky students from the Edna G Olds Academy recently got to attend the demolition of the first 90 flats from the 12th floor of one of the blocks. This involved actually visiting the 12th floor and getting to ask lots of questions. As well as seeing Nottingham from a very high viewpoint, all the students were intrigued about the work, and hopefully some of them will choose to investigate further and maybe even enter the industry one day.

If you happen to be visiting the Lenton blocks before the towers have been fully removed, you should be able to see pictures the students created after their visit present on the security fencing surrounding the site.

Source: Nottingham Post. Image courtesy of French Disko on Flickr.