Arwood Waste has performed a wide variety of projects for railroad entities and in the removal of transportation infrastructure. These projects are intensely schedule-oriented and require detailed pre planning to run smoothly. Projects include the removal of railroad bridges over active freeway, railway systems, as well as the demolition of abandoned infrastructure in remote regions with poor access.

Safety

Nothing is more important than the safety of your employees, our team members, and the general public. We’ve developed extensive safety protocols over the last 60 years and continually reinvest in training and testing. For the last 60 years, we’ve been completing projects under challenging conditions with zero fatalities and very few serious injuries.

Quality

At Arwood Waste & Demolition, we focus on providing quality. Every project is managed by a key team member who has been with the company for at least 10 years. Many of our project managers have been with us for 20+ years. Our business is not volume focused, it is focused on making every project successful.

Creative Solutions to Complex Problems

We are known for coming up with creative ways to reduce cost, minimize impact to on-site operations, and complete projects under difficult operational conditions.

Environmental Responsibility

Most of our projects involve hazardous materials or contaminated structures. Our internal Environmental Safety Team works in tandem with national consulting firms to ensure all work meets or exceeds local, state, and federal regulatory requirements.

Commitment to Customers

No one appreciates unknowns, change orders, and surprises. We are committed to uncovering issues up front and completing your project on time and on budget. We work in tandem with your team to minimize the impact to your on-site operations.

Commitment to Your Vendors

We understand that you may have multiple vendors on-site and we are committed to working in alongside your vendors towards the successful completion of your project.

Commitment to Financial Responsibility

We are strong financially, protecting our customers from the fear of not completing projects. We own our own fleet of equipment and maintain a financial position that allows us to price work in a reasonable fashion.

Employees Who Care

When we hire a new employee we are always trying to ascertain if the individual cares. By that we mean will the person take a personal stake in the projects, personally caring what the outcome is? This may sound like fluff in this dot-com world, however, the old world work ethic and individual responsibility, ownership, and caring about the work product we each produce each day is the primary reason for our company’s success.

Partnership Approach

AW’s longevity in the marketplace has produced long-term strategic alliances, partnerships, and customer relationships. We strive to partner with our customers to produce a work product that is mutually advantageous. We aim to minimize the impact to a customer’s on-site operations and risks, while performing the work in the safest simplest fashion possible.

A significant portion of Arwood Waste’s work is for government agencies. This work ranges from federal agencies to port authorities to local municipalities.

Efficient government contracting is a distinct skill set. We have experienced management and contracts personnel with specific government contracting, projects controls, billing and bonding expertise. Our operation and management teams bring specific experience to challenging projects. We have excellent bonding capacity often required by these public agencies.

The Government Services sectors/customers we work with include:

• DOD
• DOE
• DOI
• BLM
• Bureau of Reclamation

AW is expert in the demolition of bulk storage steel and concrete vessels.

Our experience, range of specialized equipment and certification in several industry safety groups make us a valued tool to our industrial customers.

We specialize in using low energy cutting methods with hydraulic shears for safety around flammable atmospheres. Due to the sensitivity in chemical handling, we routinely perform atmospheric monitoring in the work areas of tank demolition projects. Flammable and explosive dust and vapors forms a large portion of the safety evaluation for these projects.

We frequently perform the demolition of:

• Entire bulk fueling terminals
• Concrete silos
• Individual tanks or grouping of tanks removed from within active tank farms/refineries
• Above and below ground piping demolition and handling of residual product

Arwood Waste provides a full range of services for the removal of commercial structures and facilities.

Industries served include:

• High Rise
• Hospitality and Residential
• Retail Distribution
• Healthcare

We frequently work in the most challenging of environments where assets are to be protected, environmental factors need to be addressed and schedules are challenging.

By definition, high rises are often placed in congested environments. Protection of the customer’s remaining assets and the facilities/personnel in these areas is pivotal. Specialized methods and techniques are often employed. These projects routinely require engineered demolition plans.

Each style of commercial facility has its own sensitivities and features requiring specific attention. For example, healthcare facilities are frequently very conscious of vibration, and environmental factors, such as diesel fumes and traffic, whereas high-rise hotel development demolition is often focused on noise, falling object risk, and schedules.

We aim to bring our collective experience to each project aiding with the planning and safe implementation of a well-designed operations pla

AW’s experience has made it a leader in the removal of marine related infrastructure. Through decades of experience an understanding has evolved for the unique complexities and environmental considerations associated with performing these projects.

Industries served include:

• Docks, piers and bridges
• Lock and dam
• Remote location accessibility

Arwood Waste’s experience and specialized equipment has made it a leader in the removal of docks, bridges and other improvements adjacent to or over water. This experience has included remote location projects accessible only by water.

One example was a contaminated soil removal project on a remote Pacific Island, where AW provided transportation (by ship), housing, medical support, and communications in addition to performing the project work.

The majority of Arwood Waste Demolition projects are industrial in nature. Industries served include:

• Manufacturing
• Refining (petroleum, chemical)
• Mining and metals
• Power and energy

Over the decades we have tuned our skills to meet the needs of our industrial customers. These customer requirements are:

• A non-negotiable commitment to safety with a zero incident goal on every project.
• Working within an operating facility and around customer personnel and production systems.
• Management and handling of the full array of waste projects.
• The need to coordinate work schedules to coordination and sequence with their production, safety and environmental goals.
• Provide realistic scheduling milestones and meeting deadlines.

WHAT MAKES US SAFE?

Our company’s safety success is the result of:

• Every project is unique: Each project’s risks are considered individually.
• Accumulated experience: Decades of safe operation is passed onto field personnel through ongoing in-the-field training
• Industry Leading Training Programs: To respond to the various industries (e.g., mining, petrochemical, manufacturing, nuclear, etc.) in which we work, we have become compliant with a variety of safety reporting agencies including IS Net World, PICS, Browz, and e-railsafe.
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): To make all this information usable to the personnel in the field, AW Demolition has distilled down the information gathered over decades of operation. This information is retained in the Corporate Health and Safety Program, the Corporate SOP document, and, more importantly, within each and every Site-Specific Health and Safety Plan. A real effort is made to make these documents as simple and available as possible to all workers. Hundreds of pages of protocols will not keep field crews safe. Clear, direct information, good training, and effective supervision accomplishes that.
• Supervisor Training: All supervisors with Arwood Waste & Demolition receive added training (e.g., OSHA 10- and 30-hour training, 40-hour HAZWOPER training) and customized ongoing company training as managed by our professional safety staff.
• Highly specialized equipment: Wherever possible, equipment is used to keep personnel away from hazards. Arwood Waste’s technical team works with equipment manufacturers to produce custom-built equipment that allows safer operation. Examples include improved roll-over and falling-object guarding packages, improved visibility cabs, enclosed cabs on skid-steers, and long reach cutting torches.
• Shared Culture of Safety:  At the end of each year, all AW Waste Demolition projects are shut down and all employees convene at our corporate office for required training.  We share in the previous year’s lessons learned, listen to their ideas, and outline new safety procedures for the upcoming year.
• Caliber of Employee: We strive to have the highest standard of employee. We pride ourselves on the longevity of our key people and on attracting the best talent in the industry.

SAFETY PAYS:

Arwood Waste encourages safe work practices through teamwork, communication, and cooperation. Each quarter, every employee is graded on a point reward system by his respective Supervisor and our company Safety Manager, based on these categories:

• Motivation to produce quality work and attitude while at work
• Observation and reporting near misses, site hazards, and correcting them
• Daily participation and input in safety meetings, safety training, etc.
• Wearing proper PPE at all times
• Knowledge and compliance with the Site Safety Plans, JHA’s and safety rules

The intent is to encourage safety behavior and reward employees who may find a hazard, create a solution, and help resolve it.

Decommissioning a facility and property includes removal of hazardous materials and waste; cleaning and removal of equipment; decontamination and remediation; and, termination of environmental operating permits.

AW not only has the capability to dismantle a site, they can also decommission a site. The process involves specific steps to correctly complete a facility’s environmental decommission:

• Hazardous material and waste: Once identified, removal and off-site management of hazardous material and petroleum products in necessary; which may include solvents, compressed gas cylinders, water waste treatment chemicals, lubricants and wastewater. This must be accomplished by licensed personnel to ensure that the material is properly over-packed and lab-packed within properly labeled containers, including preparing the manifest for shipment and disposal.
• Equipment: Equipment that cannot be re-used, is typically cleaned and shipped to another facility or sold. This type of equipment usually includes the components of water and wastewater pretreatment systems, process piping, and industry-specialized equipment. Decontamination involves removing, purging, and proper disposal of liquids, solids and gases contained in equipment and the rinsing or high pressure washing of the equipment with water and detergent. When required, AW completes chemical analysis of any wipe samples taken from washed equipment to document that residual hazardous substances have been removed.
• Decontamination and remediation: Any remaining intact building surfaces (floors, walls, and ceilings) that may be contaminated and require decontamination must be identified. Typically this includes maintenance rooms, water and wastewater treatment areas, chemical storage rooms, hazardous waste storage rooms, flammable storage rooms, manufacturing areas, and other locations that had been subject to spills. If the facility is going to brownfield, AW will take the necessary steps to comply with all Federal, State and Local regulations for environmental cleanup.
• Termination of environmental operating permits: AW will assist in preparing the Notice of Permit Termination to the appropriate regulatory authorities. Permits to terminate include: RCRA hazardous waste generator identification, air emission permit, industrial sewer use permit, NPDES point source and stormwater discharge permit, flammable storage permit, and other possible permits based on the type of facility being decommissioned.

By designing and implementing a site plan, we will identify hidden assets within a structure, provide physical removal of those assets with a proven system…

Arwood Waste (AW) offers comprehensive demolition services for industrial and commercial projects, including salvage and asset recovery. If you require salvage of heavy manufacturing equipment, or even valuable materials, we can provide you with a plan to meet your goals and improve the cost of demolition.

Combining technical expertise and know how, with our understanding of code compliance, Arwood’s staff of experienced demolition professionals can provide the expertise to conduct industrial plant site decommissioning, including site demolition, asset recovery, environmental cleanup, and closure.

By designing and implementing a site plan, we will identify hidden assts within a structure, provide physical removal of those assets with a proven system to transport and monitize the materials removed. Our program will help you offset the cost of demolition by maximizing your return on investment.

You can count on Arwood Waste for technical competence, strong project management, the highest safety rating, and a high-level of quality control on all our projects. Our track record is proven, just ask our many customers.

We are experts in:

• Plant Acquisition and/or Asset Recovery
• Building / Plant Dismantlement
• Building / Facility Demolition
  
• Plant Closures
  
• Recycling Demolition and Construction Debris
  
• Hazardous Waste Transport and Disposal
• Disposition of Surplus Assets in Building / Plant Facilities
• Managing, Marketing, and Reselling Your Excess Surplus Equipment / Material
  
• On-Site Evaluations

When experience counts, you can count on Arwood Waste.

We have been performing all types of demolition projects throughout North America since 1984. From automotive plants to power plants we have successfully dismantled, recycled, recovered assets, including environmental assessment and remediation of contamination. Your project, and the safety of everyone involved is of the utmost importance to us.

AW offers professional power plant demolition services ranging from selective demolition for retrofit/conversion projects to total demolition of an entire site. Our experience in this area has earned us a reputation for providing quality workmanship and cost effective solutions.