Comments on: City preparing deconstruction workforce /news/2016/07/21/city-preparing-deconstruction-workforce/ Building and Construction News in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Wed, 06 Nov 2019 22:29:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.6 By: john@statonco.com /news/2016/07/21/city-preparing-deconstruction-workforce/#comment-852186 Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:17:33 +0000 /?p=154201#comment-852186 The simple answer regarding time and cost is it typically take about two days including all city of Portland close out permit inspections to demolish a 2000 sqft. Rambler type house utilizing one excavator a laborer for dust control and one debris truck, the duration could take an additional two days if there is a basement associated with the structure that would need to be backfilled, the cost of would run between $4.00 – $8.00 per square foot depending on a long list of variables.
Dismantling will take as much as three weeks for the same structure utilizing 6 – 8 employees and cost somewhere between $10.00 – $15.00 per square foot.
As far as the talent pool to handle this type of demolition is concerned all I can say is most reputable demolition contractors are more than capable of dismantling a house, the issue, at least for our company would be the unnecessary exposure to safety hazards to our employees which is huge. A typical house will only have about 3000 board feet of dimensional lumber, we would expect to recover around 2/3’s of this material through dismantling with a value of about 0.30 cents per board foot through a retail type of operation, there are currently no wholesale outlets for the smaller dimensional lumber associated with houses because there is no value in the materials being generated.
Other miss information that is being pushed is the misnomer that this will reduce the amount of asbestos in the process, DEQ law requires that all asbestos is to be abated and removed prior to any demolition activities including dismantling. Another misnomer is all this material will end up in the landfill, metro currently requires all C&D materials go through a MERF (material recovery facility) where most of the demolition debris is diverted from going into the landfill so there is already regulations in place that prevent this.

]]> By: brian.owendoff@yahoo.com /news/2016/07/21/city-preparing-deconstruction-workforce/#comment-851478 Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:00:26 +0000 /?p=154201#comment-851478 How does the time and cost for deconstruction compare to traditional demolition?

How deep is the talent pool to handle this work and how many companies can house the re-used materials?

]]> By: john@statonco.com /news/2016/07/21/city-preparing-deconstruction-workforce/#comment-851448 Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:57:51 +0000 /?p=154201#comment-851448 no safety glasses, no gloves and tennis shoes!! Just saying!!

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