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| CASE
STUDY - Olive Mount Heights, Liverpool |
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| Tweeds
Project Services Ltd |
| Project: |
Demolition
of Olive Mount Heights |
| Client: |
Liverpool
Housing Action Trust, now taken over by English Partnerships |
| Planning
Supervisor: |
Tweeds
Project Services Ltd, 82-84 High Street, Mold, Flintshire, CH7
1BQ |
| Project
Manager: |
Mr.
John Finch, Tweeds, Cavern Court, 8 Mathew Street, Liverpool,
L2 6RE |
| Principal
Contractor: |
Walter
Forshaw Ltd, 7 King Street, Westhoughton, Bolton, BL5 3AY |
| WFL
Engineer: |
Healey
Brown Partnership, Brunel House, 63 Dale Street, Milnrow, Rochdale,
OL16 3NJ |
| Contract
Description: |
Demolition
of three no. 14-storey residential tower blocks, removal of all
foundations and remedial landscaping works. |
| Value: |
£793,000 |
Timescale: |
February
2006 to July 2006 |
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Building
Construction:
The site comprised three number 14-storey tower blocks comprising
39 number one bedroomed flats and 26 number two bedroomed flats.
The tower blocks, built in 1963, consisted of a reinforced concrete
frame with inner block walls, precast concrete floors and roofs
with reinforced ground slab and reinforced concrete foundations.
There were also sub-basements and lift pits. The Community Centre
was a single storey brick built structure with a pitched roof.
Demolition
Method:
The blocks were soft-stripped and subsequently demolished in their entirety
using our Hitachi EX800 Super Reach demolition excavator fitted with a concrete
pulverisor with 360o rotation. The site was levelled and tracked over in preparation
for the subsequent housing development.
Over the last few years we have demolished a total of 11 similar tower blocks
for the same client in the Liverpool area.
See attached letter of recommendation from Tweeds. |
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