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DEMOLITION AWARDS
Michael Corridon of
MICOR
accepted the
2013
CIVILS DEMOLITION AWARD
from
Pilar de la Cruz for the work the company
carried out on behalf of the UK’s Ministry
of Defence to remove the Upper Harbour
Ammunition Facility (UHAF) outside the
port of Gosport on the UK’s south coast.
The UHAF was used to load munitions onto
warships but has since been replaced by a
more modern facility close by. It was located
20 minutes offshore in a water depth of 11
m (36 ft) and security requirements, tidal
and visibility issues posed a major challenge.
Dan Costello accepted the 2013
COLLABORATION AWARD
from William
Sinclair. The Massachusetts Department of
Capital Asset Management and Maintenance
(DCAMM) hired
GILBANE
as a General
Contractor and Construction Manager to
oversee the deconstruction and re-locate an
historic clock tower at the former Worcester
Insane Asylum. Together with DCAMM and
Gilbane,
COSTELLO DISMANTLING
created
a work plan to address the challenging
scope of work and the sensitivity needed to
work adjacent to an occupied hospital. To
achieve these goals, the team employed
over 20 subcontractors including engineers,
health and safety professionals, masonry
restoration experts, clock repair specialists
and environmental remediators.
ERITH
’s Stuart Accleton accepted the
2013
SAFETY & TRAINING AWARD
from Patrick Frye. Erith was deemed
the worthy winner of this Award for its
robust safety and training programmes.
In a year in which the company was
involved in an average of 12 contracts at
any given time, Erith workers collectively
accumulated 689,000 hours without
a lost time incident. That brings Erith
Group’s cumulative total of man hours
worked without a single lost time incident
to 1.5 million. Erith Group was one of the
first demolition contractors to take its
health and safety regime beyond sites by
embracing Safety 24/7, a behavioural
safety scheme.
The 2013
RECYCLING AND
ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD
went to Danish
company
J JENSEN
, with Kim Ostergaard
(left) accepting the trophy from Henrik
Bonneson. The company was recognised
for the unique system it has developed to
handle highly dangerous PCB waste that
arises from its demolition activities. This
system uses a jet that blows tiny sponges to
dust off surfaces. When using this method
the spread of contaminated material is
minimised and the amount of hazardous
waste is reduced significantly as opposed to
sand blasting. The sponges are cleaned in a
closed system, which makes sure there will
be no harmful dust, providing a much better
and healthier working environment.
Bill Moore presented the
KELTBRAY
team with the 2013
URBAN DEMOLITION
AWARD
. The Award went to this company for its involvement with Project Nova Victoria,
working with a complex confined environment in Westminster, London. The work it
carried out with exceptionally constrained boundaries due to heavy commuter and tourist
traffic (both vehicular and pedestrian), combined with technical challenges of significant
concurrent working and major demolition of a vast array of different construction types,
including the deconstruction and storage of a Grade II listed building in the City of
Westminster was a major challenge.
This year’s
MANUFACTURERS’
INNOVATION AWARD
was shared
between two companies. Bill Moore
presented the Award to Brian Carroll from
KOCUREK EXCAVATORS
and Phil Jones
from
VOLVO UK
. The two were recognised
for the development of a well-thought
through design modification that addresses
the problem of access to and egress from
raised/high cabs; a notorious cause of
slips and trips accidents on sites. The
new ‘Step Safe’ cab eliminates the need to
clamber over the machine’s structure to
gain access to the working environment.
