What this covers
Whole structures, and buildings standing separately on a property that have reached the end of their life. Residential and commercial.
A building comes down in an order, or it comes down on its own terms.
Taking a whole structure down is mostly a question of sequence. Removed in the right order, each stage leaves what remains stable enough to keep working on.
Why sequence decides everything
A structure is a system of load paths. Taken apart in the right order, each stage leaves what is left standing stable enough to keep working on. Taken apart carelessly, the building sets the order instead, usually while somebody is standing in it.
The lot is the constraint
On detached property the limits are rarely the building — they are what surrounds it. How machinery gets in and out. What the driveway will carry. Which trees stay. How close the boundary is, and what is on the other side of it. All of that is settled before anything comes down, because it decides the method.
What is left
The structure is one half. The other half is the footprint it leaves: material cleared, ground brought back to level, and the lot workable for whatever comes next.
The sequence
- 01
Survey
Structure, load paths, services, and what the lot allows.
- 02
Disconnect
Services cut back to the point they can safely be cut back to.
- 03
Take down
Sequenced from the top, and from the non-structural inward.
- 04
Clear the ground
Material removed and the footprint left level and workable.