The following is an extension of a statement from our Health & Safety document regarding our declared approach to reduction of impact to the environment from materials or conditions arrising as a result of demolition.
Our normal method of work is to de-construct buidings so that we may recover materials where possible. We assess each job in four areas and within these we detail particular points for scrutiny and attention:-

• Protection & Preservation

  Verify that building to be demolished are not subject to preservation orders & that there are no Bats, Trees and other species that need protective measures either by safe transfer or boundary sheilding.

• Hazard Identification

  Seek out the presence of hazardous materials & the possible safety risk to people or the environment & dispose of these via safe & registered agencies. This includes materials such as complessed gasses, chemicals, asbestos, PCB's, used hypodermic needles, rodent contamination, pidgeon faeces, contaminated ground, pernicious weeds etc..

• Recovery of Materials

  Identify reusable materials & means of recovery and recycling. This includes the following:-
  

  Concrete.		Crush/Sreen to size or pulverise on site, where requested, eg. for use as specific sized road stone or hardcore to size required
  Bricks, Tiles, Slates, Setts.		The percentage recovered varies from job to job and is dependent on condition, dismantling, contamination, sorting and cleaning.
  Timber.		Reclaim sound clean wood as found, or de-nail and size reduce for reuse.
  Metals.		Separation of copper, steel, reinforcement bars, cables, fittings, for recycling.

• Disposal of Waste

  Identify the correct disposal means and registration requirements.
  Eg:-

  • Controlled Waste Sites for hazardous materials.
  • Registered Landfill Sites for non-hazardous materials.
  • Registered Agencies for the recovery of oils, chemicals, gases.
  • Backfilling cavities with approved materials on site if suitable.
  • Stockpile approved materials on site for client reuse.

  
  We acknowledge that this area of our work is increasingly important to us
  and to others for the protection of the environment and we strive to develop
  means of of increasing our effectiveness in reclemation and reuse.