Concrete Sidewalk Demolition- JAXPORT Northgate
Site Location Jax Port North Gate Talleyrand Ave. ( Completion First Phase Demo ) for Pars Construction
The work scope included the demo and removal of an estimated amount equal to 852 SF of Sidewalk , 1271 Concrete Traffic , 380 SF of Sidewalk , Remove Existing Security Booth Slabs , Remove 2 – Bollards , Remove 403 SF of Asphalt , Remove 100 LF of CLF. Call Arwood Waste 904-751-2177 for a FREE estimate!
You may need to break up a section of concrete to reach an underground utility in need of repair, or perhaps you’re ready to turn a paved area into a green space. These steps will teach you how to complete this task and to dispose of the waste afterward.
Call the utility company. Always call the local utility company to make sure there are underground utilities beneath the concrete. Hire a professional if there are: Digging above a utility line like gas or electric is very dangerous.
Use safety equipment. Concrete removal creates hazardous dust and sharp fragments, so protect yourself and coworkers with safety goggles, dust masks or respirators, steel toe or other heavy boots, thick gloves, and thick clothing that covers arms and legs.
- If you’re going to be using power tools, especially a jackhammer, use ear protection.
Cover the slab with plastic sheets to contain dust and debris if practical. This will cause a possible slipping and tripping hazard, and will make it difficult to see your work, but in some situations it could be worthwhile.
- If you don’t use plastic sheeting, protect any nearby windows and breakable objects with plywood sheets to protect the glass from concrete fragments.
Obtain a large pry bar. Whether you’re using a sledge hammer or jackhammer, you may need to pry apart the pieces of concrete as you break them apart.
- This job will be much quicker if you have one person breaking apart the concrete and one person following along and prying the pieces apart.
Consider a sledgehammer for thin slabs. If your concrete is 4″ (10cm) thick or less, try using a sledgehammer.
- Start at a corner or edge where possible. Keep in mind that the lateral strength of concrete increases with thicker cross sections. You may find that undermining, or removing soil from beneath the slab will help you it break away more easily.
Use an electric demolition. An 60 pound breaker should be sufficient for most home jobs. Only rent a heavy duty pneumatic jackhammer for extremely difficult concrete.
- Only use a chisel point bit to break up concrete. This concentrates force for the best results.
Deal with any mesh or reinforcing bars you encounter. You may encounter supports inside the concrete after you start cutting. Deal with them as you go to separate the chunks of concrete:
- If the concrete is held together by wire mesh, you’ll need bolt cutters to snip it apart. Large welded wire fabric will require bolt cutters, but number 10 wire can be cut with side cutting pliers.
Pull apart stuck chunks with a mattock. If chunks of concrete remain locked together, making it hard to break the surrounding area, clear the surrounding rubble and use a heavy mattock to pry them apart:
- Swing the pointed end into the crack between the two chunks and pry it apart.
- Once the crack is wide enough, switch to the larger flat end and pry fully apart.
- Pry up the opposite side of each chunk if they still won’t budge.
Determine where you need to break the concrete. If you are looking for a broken water or drain line, and you can locate the general area you suspect the problem to be in, you can save a lot of work and expense. Here are some things to look for:
- For plumbing problems, try to determine the location and depth of the underground pipes. Look for an outdoor faucet or sewer cap.
- For water problems, look for areas where water is either bubbling up through cracks in the concrete, or seeping out around the edges of the slab.
- For electrical lines, you may find you have to locate the conduit outside the slab area and dig up a length of it to determine where the rest of it runs.
- For other types of repairs, or for installing new utilities that require excavating a ditch through an area paved with concrete, you may have to research construction plans to determine where to begin.
Saw cut the line as deeply as possible. Rent a cutoff or demolition saw for use on concrete. Cut the line evenly to create a clean edge when your work is complete. If you are searching for a broken water pipe,you may have to enlarge the hole after the initial break is done.
- Be very cautious while sawing. These saws are powerful and can cause a fatal injury. Always wear a respirator or face mask to protect against dust and follow the instructions carefully. For any application where it is possible, use a wet cut saw and keep enough flow of water to prevent airborne dust and damage to the saw blade.
Chip the concrete near the cut. Use a heavy duty hammer drill or a breaking chisel attachment in a rotary hammer to chip the concrete next to the line you sawed.
- Tilt the chisel so the side you will be removing cracks loose, not the side you’re keeping.
Chip inward to make the gap wider. Once a gap has been created between the concrete you’re removing and the concrete that’s staying, chip further with the same tool to widen it to at least 3 inches (8 cm), or enough to fully remove the broken pieces.
- Keep your chisel point slanted toward the beginning hole while you work around, so it doesn’t try to penetrate straight down without breaking a section of concrete free. If it is allowed to go too deep, the bit will become lodged in its hole and will be difficult to remove.
- If a bit is truly stuck, you may need to use a new drill bit to break the concrete around it and free it.
Break larger pieces using a sledgehammer or electric jackhammer. Once there is a wide enough gap to avoid damaging the concrete you wish to keep, you can use the methods detailed for removing a whole slab.
- Use a pry bar as you go for the quickest and most effective results.
- Do not use a jackhammer or similar power tool if you are near a water pipe, electrical line, or similar item.
- Remove the broken chunks and bits of concrete from the hole as it becomes larger, so subsequent pieces have plenty of room to drop in without becoming wedged. This will also make it easier to spot pipes and electrical wires.
- Use bolt cutters to snip reinforcing mesh and an angle grinder to cut through rebar.
Rent a dumpster from Arwood Waste the best choice for a disposal company. If you want to get rid of a large amount of concrete, this is your best bet. Many disposal companies have a reduced rate for disposing of clean broken concrete that can be recycled or used for riprap.
- Ask in advance how full you can load it, or you’ll be forced to take the excess out or pay them to do so.
Drive it to the landfill. Be careful — your truck will not carry as much concrete as you think. Use a powerful pickup truck and do not fill the entire bed.
- You can also use a utility trailer for your truck, but be especially cautious loading in that case. A too-heavy trailer will smash into your truck or spill when you attempt to stop.
- In some locations, only landfills that accept “C&D” (Construction and Demolition) materials will accept concrete, and the fees may be pricey.
- Building supply companies may take your old concrete for free if you call them in advance and agree to deliver it yourself.
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When it comes to clutter, how do you know when your clutter is no longer within reason. Are you a minimalist or a maximalist?
What is your level of comfort for clutter?
Is it time to let go of the clutter? Consider this.
- Two years ago, your coffee pot maker went on the blink. You put it in the garage or the closet and let it collect dust.
- Your lamp got knocked off the table and broke. It could be fixed but it’s been sitting there now for 3 months and you’ve forgotten about it.
- How about the “antique” computer monitors that you are saving for parts. They are growing in number and you still haven’t used those parts.
Exaggerations? Maybe. But it’s a start to give you an idea of what you need to let go of.
How long should you keep stuff?
If you have items that you just don’t like, find inefficient to use, or haven’t used in a year, then that’s clutter. Set a time frame for yourself for how long you will keep an item before you get rid of it. Giving yourself a time limit will make it easier and you will be one step closer to having a healthy, clutter free mindset.
You deserve to live in a relaxing home and to work in a clutter free environment.
So take the time to go through those ignored drawers, your closets and pantry – especially in the back corners where things get pushed, and start sorting. Remember the longer you ignore or leave it to build up the more work you make for yourself down the road.
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Wet process recovery system for Demolition
RESUMEN
Disclosed is a wet process recovery system for solid waste. The waste is fed into a hydrokinetic separation step wherein it is immersed in a body of water which is subjected to rising and lateral flows. These flows establish a synthetic gravitational environment to effect separation of solids above and below a predetermined density greater than the density of water. The solids having the higher densities are collected by gravity and transported from the water for recycling. A modified hammermill is connected to the body of water and the rising and lateral fluid flows cooperate to carry waste into a cutting and ejecting mechanism which both shears friable waste and dynamically ejects non-friable waste back into the liquid. The output of the hammermill is a slurry of comminuted waste in the liquid. This is pumped to a centrifuge separator where solid waste is separated from liquid and the liquid recirculated to the body of water to create the flows in that body. The solid waste output is in a de-liquified form suitable for use in a waste to energy incineration process.
Railroad Demolition
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.
Why Choose Arwood Waste and Demolition
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.
GOVERNMENT & MILITARY SERVICES
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
STORAGE VESSEL DEMOLITION
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
COMMERCIAL DEMOLITION
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
