The fall of Albert Streets "Pigeon Palace" by Ward Demolition

The fall of “Pigeon Palace” 2021-2022
Ward Demolition’s deconstruction of Albert St’s, pigeon infested, street kid decorated, CBD Auckland, block of buildings was no simple feat. The tallest crumbly high-rise gave us a horrific surprise while pulling in a 7-story high street facing section. We discovered there was absolutely no rebar in the columns. As we stepped down each side of the building, with small machines, in preparation for the high reach, we found no pattern to the columns that had no rebar. Meaning we took extra precautions with every one, by double turfa winching and stropping each section as we pulled them in.
The adjacent building contained 100 mm concrete slabs held together by chicken mesh, while the beams boasted 80mm thick rebar, that gave our shear attachments a run for their money.
Other challenges included shin deep pigeon guano, that we treated similarly to asbestos, to avoid deadly diseases from inhalation. The job required separating a heritage building from the 2 structures we were demolishing. The street facing section was within the stairwell and had to be cut from the scaffold side.
Our New Zealand first, brand New, DXR 300 Robot was a game changer during what amounted to be a high-risk demolition. We were able to break beams out in half the time of the 3 tonne excavators while remaining at a safe distance of 7 story high leading edges.

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Nice one Dalton ward

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Nice greetings from die demolitiondriver in germany, it is at us different to you eh some points.

[@mithunahamed8103]

Excellent job 👍

[@HarrySingh-zj7pf]

Miss the team and diggers

[@harzbushcraft8460]

Nice work gut maybe you need the beast of the east.