Mary Chapman Court

Asbestos removal and soft stripping took place first to prepare the buildings for complete demolition. Two weeks before the completion of these works, our Scaffold division erected all required scaffolding protection to aid the demolition works.

After the internal strip out phase was complete, we bought in a 24 tonne demolition spec excavator to munch out the central concrete walkways, making room for our 22m high reach excavator to get into the site. Once the high reach was on site, the real demolition works could begin and it didn’t take long for the building to be reduced to rubble. The rubble was removed from site and a complete clearance service was provided, which allowed teams on site to install 40 tonnes of propping and formwork in the remaining basement, to support the retaining wall which runs along the river – this took 167m3 of concrete.