The Leichhardt Hotel owned by Hotel Property Investments Pty Ltd (HPI) and managed by Australian Venue Co, comprised four buildings spanning a 3,100m² site. Significant asbestos materials were in the main hotel constructed in the seventies.
Playing a major factor in determining the sequence and method of demolition works was the location, with the hotel complex sitting on the corner of two live streets in the city centre, a narrow lane on a third side and carpark on the fourth.
Confirmed friable asbestos insulation throughout all four aged structures, reuided the highest standard of safety protection measures had to be implemented. All buildings were restricted from access without the correct PPE and all friable work areas were enclosed under negative pressure. Decontamination chambers were established in the work zone to facilitate friable asbestos removal.
Using a 62-tonne highreach excavator, external blockwork was gradually removed, exposing the full southwest side of the building and enabling the internal structural
demolition to commence. Works followed a tight sequence of pulverizing two to three bays of concrete slab two levels at a time, followed by oxy cutting of the beams, then removal of beams to ground.
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