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Pine Acres Demolition
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The debris pile next to Village Hall.VICTOR WHITMAN/Times Herald-Record
Published: 4:26 PM - 10/09/13 Last updated: 4:29 PM - 10/09/13
MONTICELLO Last week's botched demolition of the Monticello justice court will cost the village thousands more to remove asbestos-laced debris from two sites.
During a shout-filled emergency board meeting Wednesday afternoon, Village Engineer John Fuller told trustees on speaker phone that asbestos wasn't dealt with.
The state Department of Labor is requiring the village to get a special permit that will allow it to remove a large debris pile next to Village Hall. Fuller also said the village is responsible for the debris that was hauled to at an illegal dump site off Fairground Road.
The Department of Environmental Conservation stopped the job after arresting six demolition workers last Thursday, accused of dumping the debris behind the Burnwell propane company.
We have to deal with it (the dump site), Fuller said. We are responsible for the debris because it is our debris.
Under questioning by reporters huddled around the board's desk, Fuller said the village surveyed the court building roughly 18 months ago. Village officials knew portions of the building, including the shingles, contained asbestos. While only a fraction of the court contained less dangerous non-friable asbestos, once the court was demolished the entire debris pile became contaminated.
The board voted to hire Hudson Valley Environmental for $2,200 to expedite the permitting process and monitor the debris removal. Fuller said the board must hire a separate contractor to remove the pile.
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Staff member Siobhan Hayes vacuums the Waterford Crystal visitors centre as workers hold a meeting during a sit-in in 2009. Photographer: Dara Mac Dnaill/The Irish Times
Less than half a decade since it was one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country, the former Waterford Crystal factory is now being razed to the ground to make way for new beginnings.
The large chandeliers which could once be seen by passing cars on the Cork Road in Waterford city have long since been turned off and taken away.
The Waterford Crystal business went into receivership in 2009, but now the demolition crews have moved onto the factory buildings where the chandeliers and other world-famous pieces were made.
For hundreds of years crystal was made in Waterford and the business moved to the Cork Road premises in the 1960s, going on to become a must-see attraction for many years for coachloads of US and other tourists.
About 600 people worked on the site when it closed down in January of 2009, with a much-reduced workforce staying on when the new House of Waterford Crystal opened up back at The Mall the following year.
Now, developer Noel Frisby - who bought the 36-acre Cork Road site last year for an undisclosed sum - hopes hundreds more people will be back working there before long.
Mr Frisby is turning the site into an IT and office park which he believes will attract major employers into the area. For far too long, the IDA are saying theres no place for people to come in and locate in Waterford, so were providing that, Mr Frisby said today.
The parts more familiar to tourists, such as the visitor centre and gift shop, are being gutted and renovated to allow the development of modern offices while the old manufacturing plant and warehouse, gone beyond redemption, are being demolished.
The sites location, adjacent to the busy Waterford Institute of Technology campus, may allow for link-ups with the college, particularly in the areas of IT and research, the developers hope. Its a totally new start. From the ground up, he said.
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Council news>Press Releases>Demolition of Aberdeen landmark underway
The task of taking down the 13 storey St Nicholas House tower gets underway today [Tuesday, 08 October].
Scaffolding is being erected around the chimney on top of the 1960s building, which formerly housed Aberdeen City Council's headquarters. The chimney will be dismantled by hand, before machines are brought in to demolish the rest of the building.
Demolition machinery four Brokks and a Bobcat will be hoisted up the side of the building and used to take the building down floor by floor during the critical phase of the demolition project.
These remote-control demolition machines will be used to deconstruct St Nicholas House floor by floor, from the top down. Each floor will be propped, before the machines are used to demolish each level by "nibbling" the concrete, and drop the material down the lift shaft in a controlled manner. Supporting columns will then be pulled down and the operation will move to the next floor.
The material will then be taken into the area formerly occupied by the Underpass Gallery. It will take approximately two weeks to take down each floor.
Deputy council leader Marie Boulton said: "This is a historic moment for Aberdeen. Love it or loathe it, the St Nicholas House tower has been a prominent feature of the city's skyline for almost 50 years. Over the coming weeks we will see it steadily reduced until nothing remains of the monolithic building.
"I am pleased to see the demolition project progressing so well and the site being cleared in readiness for an exciting new development and a new chapter in the city's history."
Project manager Andrew Sproull said: "The demolition of St Nicholas House is a major project and involves effectively deconstructing the building. The work presents challenges because the building is in such a constrained site in the middle of a busy city centre, which is why we have opted to take the tower down floor by floor in a very safe and controlled manner.
"Safedem will work on the floors in an agreed pattern of demolition by bringing one floor down onto another floor, clearing the material and then pulling down the supporting columns before moving down to the next floor.
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EDEN, N.C. -- Duke Energy started demolishing its more than 60-year-old Dan River Steam Station in Rockingham County. The company decommissioned the station's three coal-fired units last year as a new natural gas plant went into service.
The station is one of seven in the state Duke Energy will retire by the end of the year as it modernizes its electricity generation fleet and reduces emissions.
"We retired it in 2012, and now we're going through a multi-phase, multi-year approach to its demolition," said district manager Davis Montgomery.
Crews are removing the tracks once used by rail cars to bring in loads of coal, and they've begun work on the outside of the plant's powerhouse.
"[We're] taking some brick off it because we're going to modify the water intake to be used for the new plant, said Montgomery. That will be taking place over this next year, or so, but in 2015 the old powerhouse will come down completely."
The steam station's more efficient replacement came on line in 2012 and features a pair of combined combustion turbine units.
"They use natural gas as their main fuel source but they have on the backside of them a steam unit that recovers the heat off the combustion process and then uses steam to turn a turbine," Montgomery said.
At its best, the electricity output of the steam station was no match compared to the new plant.
"The old plant had about 360 megawatts worth of power, which is roughly about half what the new plant has, said Montgomery. The new plant can serve about a half million customers, so roughly speaking the old plant could serve 250,000 households."
The steam station has served the region well since the 1940s, but Montgomery said as the population continues to grow, the new cleaner burning, higher output facility would meet a huge need.
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