C & K Contracts Ltd - Specialist Demolition Contractors

This contract involved the total demolition of a redundant laundry building.
At the nearest point the building was only approximately 2.5 metres away from a nurses lodge, and the mortuary.
There were a pair of beams connecting the two buildings, these had to be removed with extreme care, at a time agreed with all parties. During this agreed time both occupied buildings were out of bounds (to the living that is)
With the beams removed the section of the redundant building directly adjacent to the nurses lodge had to be demolished by hand, this was to remove the risk of debris falling from height into the path of personnel entering, or leaving the nurses lodge or mortuary.
The final operation prior to mechanical demolition was to strip out all internal, non-load bearing items.

With all preparations complete we had delivered to site a 20 tonne tracked excavator fitted with a Selecta Grab, demolition attachment.
The demolition then commenced.
The Selecta Grab is used to demolish the building separating the different materials as progress is made.
All good timber is salvaged, and handed over to a second hand timber company.
All brickwork is separated and disposed of at a recycling company, this company crush the brickwork, making it ready for re-use in the construction industry.
Unfortunately this still leaves some materials that are sent to landfill site, although a good machine operator will carry out the work in such a way as to minimise waste.

With the demolition of the building complete, the concrete floor slab was removed, once again the concrete was sent to the recycling company and crushed, the tarmac surface was sent to landfill, where it is used to form the roadways, this reduces the need for quarried stone, which is another valuable resource.

The third picture is the finished product, ready for the following trades to commence the building of the new Walk in Centre.