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Northern Ireland’s McCormick Demolition is currently
engaged on one of Belfast’s highest profile demolition
contracts, the University of Ulster Belfast Campus
development, which is a £250 million (US$400
million) project to be sited at York Street adjacent to
and opposite the existing Belfast campus building.
The demolition will pave the way for some
75,000 m
2
(808,000 ft
2
) of new University space
and 6,500 m
2
(70,000 ft
2
) of refurbished space.
When completed, it will accommodate up to 15,000
students and staff that are currently based in
Jordanstown.
Sound of breaking glass
G
erman contractor Toggenburg AG
Winterthur has recently completed a
challenging project that required the
processing and recycling of as much of 77,000
m
3
(2,272,000 ft
3
) of material in an enclosed
space, a task it completed in just 10 weeks. In
2012, Swiss safety glass producer Temperit
ceased manufacturing at its Hinwil plant in
the country and the site was scheduled for
demolition.
Toggenburg brought in a newly delivered
Demlone DEM100 excavator, based on the
Cat 385C tracked machine, with a 34 m (112
ft) high reach boom fitted with an OilQuick
coupler and configured specifically to
Toggenburg’s specification.
To process the 3 x 3 x 1.5 m (10 x 10 x
5 ft) thick machine foundations, another
newly acquired piece of equipment, a 7 tonne
Rammer 7013 hydraulic hammer was used
by the Dem100 mounted on its standard dig
boom to break the concrete up. During the
course of the work, Toggenburg processed
10,000 m
3
(350,000 ft
3
) of concrete and 1,000
tonnes of steel. Key to this hammer’s use,
according to Toggenburg, was the constant
blow energy provided by the hammer’s FBE
system, as well as its noise and vibration
damping to maximise carrier protection
and minimise noise levels. According to
Toggenburg’s Marcel Stadler: “This is the
10th Rammer hammer to join our fleet and
based on what we have seen so far, it will not
be the last.”
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Toggenburg’s Rammer 7013 breaker
at work on the former Temperit
glass plant demolition
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