Total Reclaims is working 120 feet in the sky

The Nottingham Post recently featured work on Lenton Flats by C&D customer Total Reclaims Limited. The job requires scaling 16 flights of scaffolding stairs in order to reach the top, some 120 feet in the air.

So far four floors have been removed using electro-hydraulic breaker Brokks. One floor is dismantled at a time, and one concrete panel at a time. The flats were 17 storeys tall, but Total Reclaims has got that down to 13 in just 8 weeks. When they reach 11, then the Brokks work stops and a 360 excavator with a 35 metre reach takes over to demolish the rest.



Source: Nottingham Post

C&D Customer Total Reclaims feature in nice time lapse

Total Reclaims features in the timelapse you see above. It covers a 6 month project to demolish Clifford Court in Nottingham. Over the next 18 months the site will undergo a renovation project.

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.

C&D Consultancy Golf Day Results

The inaugural C&D golf day was held on Thursday 7th May at Ingestre Park Golf Club near Stafford. It was attended by 14 golfers from C&D clients, all of whom enjoyed the day fully and went home with a prize for their efforts.

The main prizes, however, were won as follows:

Morning Texas Scramble
Adam Clarke (C&D Consultancy)
John Devine (TDS)
Austin Taperell (TDS)

Afternoon Individual Stableford
1st John Devine (TDS)
2nd Andrew Dale (EDS)
3rd Adam Clarke (C&D)
4th Pat Harnett (Wrightways)

Longest Drive of the Day
Austin Taperell (TDS)
This was a good result as Austin drove all the way from newscatle-upon-Tyne to attend the day!

Nearest the Pin
Richard Noon (Total Reclaims)

Wooden Spoon (but nicest golf clubs)
Alan Matchett (Sandvik)

C&D thanks all those who found the time to attend and we look forward to our next gold day in 2010.