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Demolition Consulting
DEMEX is a specialist decommissioning contractor for every stage of the asset lifecycle.
Demolition consulting is a worthwhile investment for mine operators, owners of industrial and manufacturing facilities, and project developers who want a detailed understanding of options for their project and the associated risks. Working with a specialist demolition consultant, project owners gain the capacity to more accurately assess demolition costs that would otherwise be underestimated and fall short of allowances made for project delivery. This presents a major project risk that can be exacerbated by poor planning that does not account for complicating factors such as project location, site constraints and weather, regulations, and remediation and rehabilitation requirements. Project owners also gain a clear understanding of the risks associated with pursuing a specific pathway, including the requirement for removal of hazardous materials such as asbestos, chemicals, and PFAS.
With diverse project experience across all major industry sectors, our demolition consulting team will work with you to make informed decisions regarding your project. Whether it’s a decision to demolish or refurbish, a commitment to deliver your project as safely as possible, or to obtain a second opinion, demolition consulting provides access to our best resources to help design and deliver your project.
With diverse project experience across all major industry sectors, our demolition consulting team will work with you to make informed decisions regarding your project. Whether it’s a decision to demolish or refurbish, a commitment to deliver your project as safely as possible, or to obtain a second opinion, demolition consulting provides access to our best resources to help design and deliver your project.
Draw on the experience and skills of our team for accurate project assessment.
Without the right knowledge, skills, and experience, the method for calculating the demolition component of a facility closure, new project, or asset upgrade as part of capital works can be estimated incorrectly. We work closely with our clients to provide guidance in key areas through demolition consulting services that include:
- Planning requirements for decommissioning and demolition
- Assessment of risks associated with safety and engineering
- Specialist technical advice
- Assessing equipment needs
- Management approach for hazardous materials, including site decontamination
- Potential financial returns from ferrous and non-ferrous scrap
- Accurate cost estimates for demolition prepared as part of a feasibility study.
Whether your project is an inner city highrise demolition, a mine site closure, or an industrial demolition, we can support you to make a decision informed by robust calculations and demolition methods based on experience, capability, and knowledge of the latest advances in technologies and methods.
Progressive mine closure and rehabilitation (PRCP)
Mine site demolition demands a different technical skillset to that required for mine operations. As such it can present challenges for mine operators. Without specialist knowledge, skills, and experience to inform demolition planning and project execution, mine operators are exposed to risk. Financial overruns due to poor estimating and planning are common on major upgrade or expansion projects involving infrastructure removal, or at mine closure, which is where specialist technical skills and experience helps. DEMEX works with mine operators across Australia as an astute mine closure partner, providing mine closure planning, decommissioning, demolition, deconstruction, and remediation services to achieve closure goals and commitments.
Comparative cost estimates
We work with project owners seeking comparative cost estimates for the demolition and remediation aspects of projects, a process which allows us to identify opportunities for project acceleration, refinement of project sequencing, areas where more value can be realised, and development of revised demolition methodologies that lead to safer project delivery. From demolition consulting through to complex infrastructure deconstruction and removal, remediation and rehabilitation, our team works with you to achieve your project goals.
Early contractor involvement
Early contractor involvement (ECI) provides the opportunity for close collaboration between project owners, the principal demolition contractor, and other service providers to refine a project’s demolition method. Through the collaboration of the ECI process it is possible to identify opportunities for reducing costs and efficiencies, maximising future recovery of a site, and value engineering.
Decommissioning
Approaching facility closure with confidence
Decommissioning is an important step in the lifecycle of any structure and is often not well understood by asset owners. As ageing and redundant manufacturing facilities, mine sites, and utilities come to the end of their useful life, they must be retired and decommissioned through deconstruction, recycling and disposal of materials. Depending on the structure, facility or mine, clean up and remediation requirements will vary, and project owners should understand there is no single ideal solution.
Ageing infrastructure is characterised by corrosion, deterioration and contamination. Original documentation may not be available to guide the planning required for decommissioning and the presence, location, and volume of hazardous materials may not be known. Without taking the necessary time, effort, and resources to understand the decommissioning risks and feasible project methodologies, a project can easily unravel.
Specialising in the decommissioning of industrial, energy, mining, and manufacturing facilities, DEMEX is among Australia’s leading decommissioning and demolition contractors. We provide commercial and industrial decommissioning of complete and partial structures (internal and external), bridges, structures at height, multi-level structures, detailed and intricate demolition, and high risk demolition requiring specialised machinery and project management. Working Australia-wide in urban, regional, and remote sites such as mines and power stations, we are licensed to provide unrestricted demolition services for the mining, resources, and government sectors. Our capacity for innovation and unwavering commitment to safety means we’re never daunted by a project’s complexity, location, size or duration.
Ageing infrastructure is characterised by corrosion, deterioration and contamination. Original documentation may not be available to guide the planning required for decommissioning and the presence, location, and volume of hazardous materials may not be known. Without taking the necessary time, effort, and resources to understand the decommissioning risks and feasible project methodologies, a project can easily unravel.
Specialising in the decommissioning of industrial, energy, mining, and manufacturing facilities, DEMEX is among Australia’s leading decommissioning and demolition contractors. We provide commercial and industrial decommissioning of complete and partial structures (internal and external), bridges, structures at height, multi-level structures, detailed and intricate demolition, and high risk demolition requiring specialised machinery and project management. Working Australia-wide in urban, regional, and remote sites such as mines and power stations, we are licensed to provide unrestricted demolition services for the mining, resources, and government sectors. Our capacity for innovation and unwavering commitment to safety means we’re never daunted by a project’s complexity, location, size or duration.
Decommissioning & demolition contractor for major projects
Whether you’re leading a government project, a principal contractor, or project owner needing an independent contractor for demolition services and decommissioning, we understand the challenges of just getting to ground zero for your project. Our decommissioning and demolition capability extends to:
- Complete and partial structures, including in built up urban areas
- Bridges
- Multi-level structures and structures at height
- Internal building demolition (soft-strips)
- Projects requiring specialised intricate demolition work
- Remote site demolition projects, for example, power station and mine site decommissioning
- Hazardous material removal and decontamination, for example, for asbestos and explosive materials
- Project specific environmental risk management, for example, for noise, vibration, and dust
- Site remediation services
- Waste recycling and disposal services
- Early project civil works and site preparation.
We recognise every project is unique and formulate an approach accordingly, bringing our skills, experience, and professionalism to deliver successful outcomes on time and within budget.
Safe and effective decommissioning project completion
Decommissioning and demolition is high risk work, and it is with this understanding that we apply a ‘safety first’ approach to every project. Our safety systems are independently certified and we deliver our clients’ projects in full compliance with all health, safety, and environmental standards, including:
- Model Code of Practice: Demolition work
- ISO 9001:2015 - Quality Management Systems
- ISO 14001:2015 - Environmental Management Systems
- ISO 45001:2008 - Quality Health and Safety Management Systems
- FSC Accreditation.
Consistent with these independent standards, our business is underpinned by strong systems, commercial robustness, and insurances that provide confidence to our clients. Full details of our approach to demolition and decommissioning projects can be found here.
Meet social and environmental obligations
Decommissioning of major facilities, such as mines, power stations, and manufacturing plants invariably draw scrutiny from external stakeholders who want to know that the project is being conducted in a way that meets all the asset owner’s obligations. When performed well, decommissioning projects can achieve recycling rates in excess of 90 percent, limiting the volume of waste to landfill, and maximising the volume of resources to be salvaged. By working with an experienced decommissioning contractor, project owners can be confident they are meeting or exceeding stakeholder expectations and regulatory requirements for closure.
Effective use of resources
A reliable well-maintained fleet is pivotal to successful delivery of every project and specialist high reach excavators are ideal for industrial projects. Its many benefits include:
- Making complex work at heights more manageable, as safety and environmental risks can be minimised.
- It significantly reduces the time required for demolition, allowing project delivery to be more efficient and project schedules to be accelerated.
- Precision in delivery; a benefit evident particularly in dismantling of buildings positioned in awkward and difficult to reach spaces, such as in heavily built up urban zones.
Effective in action, high reach demolition excavators are a valuable addition to projects requiring extra reach, delivered safely
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High reach demolition
Reaching new heights
High reach demolition may be employed as the most effective demolition method on a range of commercial and industrial demolition projects. High reach demolition is undertaken with high reach excavators fitted with a range of specialized attachments. Together, these allow mechanical demolition to perform work, which would have been performed manually in the past.
High reach demolition can be effective for projects in the commercial and industrial sectors. In locations with a small footprint, such as in heavily built up urban environments, and where there is a requirement for minimal disturbance and maintenance of public safety is paramount, high reach demolition allows access in otherwise difficult to reach structures. Structures can be demolished safely, noise reduced, and dust kept to a minimum with specific dust suppression technology. Particularly effective on brownfield sites where buildings have reached their end of life and are earmarked for redevelopment, builders and developers can work collaboratively with a specialist high reach demolition contractor to prepare the site for redevelopment.
Machine based demolition using high reach excavators can make the demolition a safer process. Rather than workers manually dismantling structures, high reach excavators mean that workers are not directly at the workface. This is particularly relevant in circumstances where structural design modifications have been made leaving many unknowns until demolition commences.
High reach demolition can be effective for projects in the commercial and industrial sectors. In locations with a small footprint, such as in heavily built up urban environments, and where there is a requirement for minimal disturbance and maintenance of public safety is paramount, high reach demolition allows access in otherwise difficult to reach structures. Structures can be demolished safely, noise reduced, and dust kept to a minimum with specific dust suppression technology. Particularly effective on brownfield sites where buildings have reached their end of life and are earmarked for redevelopment, builders and developers can work collaboratively with a specialist high reach demolition contractor to prepare the site for redevelopment.
Machine based demolition using high reach excavators can make the demolition a safer process. Rather than workers manually dismantling structures, high reach excavators mean that workers are not directly at the workface. This is particularly relevant in circumstances where structural design modifications have been made leaving many unknowns until demolition commences.
High reach demolition experience
With a reliable and well-maintained fleet of high reach excavators designed to take on major highrise and industrial demolition projects, we are equipped to support commercial and industrial clients with challenging projects.
Why high reach demolition?
Our high reach excavators are designed to operate under difficult conditions, with large robust undercarriages and attachments that can be configured to work at heights or process materials at or near ground level.
High reach demolition for complex projects
As an industry leader, DEMEX was among the first Australian demolition contractors to add high reach excavators to its fleet. This has allowed us to take on more complex projects across all market sectors that showcase our high reach demolition experience.
High reach experience
High reach demolition provides versatility and safer options for projects in difficult to access and operating environments. Contact us today and learn how our approach can help you realise your project goals.
- Surfers Royale highrise demolition
- 200 Turbot Street commercial building demolition
- Port of Bundaberg tank demolition
- Blayney Dewatering Plant demolition
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