Status: complete. Client: CIP Constructions. Location: 18 Forrester Street, Kingsgrove NSW, a light industrial site with a warehouse and distribution facility still trading. Scope: demolition and clearance of the rear of the site ahead of a new two level warehouse, with the existing tenants, driveway, car parking and services kept running throughout.
The new building sits behind the existing warehouse. Everything on that part of the site had to go: an old brick house, a pallet store, a gazebo and barbecue area, planters, fencing, hardstand, kerbs and stormwater pits, plus the landscaping around it. The warehouse in front of it never stopped trading.
What the job involved
- Demolition of a single storey double brick house complete: roof, floor, isolated piers and footings
- Asbestos removal from the house before demolition, as identified in the hazmat report: laundry ceiling, switchboard backing board and panel linings, hot water unit box linings, awning eaves and soffits, with air monitoring and a clearance by an independent licensed assessor
- Removal of the pallet store shed, the gazebo, pergola and barbecue area, circular concrete feature planters, telegraph log barricades on concrete pedestals and 2.1 metre metal fencing
- Demolition of hardstand, asphalt and concrete pavements, kerbs and nominated walls where the new works tie in, with retained surfaces made good
- Six stormwater pits capped and removed, redundant in ground services taken out and capped at the boundary
- Vegetation, garden beds, mulch and grass stripped and removed, with the nominated trees protected and no tree taken down until the builder held the permit
- Sediment and erosion controls in place for the duration, dust suppression, and every load of brick, concrete, timber, steel and green waste sorted and carted to recycling
What made it hard
The site was live. Two tenants were trading out of the warehouse in front of the work area, and their driveway, car park, fire services and utilities had to stay available every day. The work area was fenced off from the trading yard, the shared driveway stayed open, and the exit was kept clean so nothing tracked out onto the street.
The house had asbestos in the usual places for its age: eaves, soffits, the laundry ceiling and the switchboard. That all came out under the control plan before a machine went near the structure, with air monitoring running and a clearance issued by the independent assessor.
The boundary was not ours to touch. Boundary fencing, retaining structures and a row of established trees along the rear all stayed, so the excavator worked up to them and stopped, and anything close to the fence line was handled carefully.
How it was run
Sediment controls and tree protection went in first. Hazmat came out of the house under the asbestos removal control plan, then the house, shed, gazebo and planters were demolished by excavator and the material sorted on the ground into brick and concrete, timber, steel and green waste. Hardstand and kerbs were broken out along the line of the new civil works and the pits were capped and lifted.
Loadout ran in skip bins and ten wheeler tippers through the shared driveway, and the site was left tidy at the end of each shift. Once the structures were down the ground was stripped of mulch, grass and roots and handed over clear for the civil contractor.
How it went
House, sheds, planters, fencing, hardstand and pits gone, asbestos cleared, trees and boundary structures untouched, and the rear of the site handed over ready for the new warehouse. The tenants traded through the whole job.
If you have something similar
Industrial sites where the tenants keep trading while part of the block is cleared for a new build: this is the kind of staged demolition Perfect Strip Out and Demolition does across Sydney. Have a look at our demolition, decontamination, commercial strip out and make good and defit pages, or get in touch.
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