Our Projects
WARD DEMOLITION HAVE AN EXTENSIVE PORTFOLIO OF SUCCESSFUL COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND RESIDENTIAL DEMOLITION PROJECTS. Here are a few of our more recent:
Alexandra Park Epsom Grandstand
Ward Demolition was handed the task of Demolishing Alexandra Parks’ 100 year old Epsom Balconies Grandstand in Greenlane Auckland. The project featured a tricky separation between the occupied building remaining and the condemned Grandstand, as services vital to the remaining building were located part way across into the building set for demolition. This meant for hand removal of part of the roof section followed by a cut and crane of 9 large truss sections. The first section to be removed sat within millimetres of the glass of the occupied building. Our skilled team successfully completed this task without incident, enabling the remaining large demolition.
The Take Down of Southdown Power Station
The natural gas fired cogeneration power station has proven to be a highly technical job with extremely high risk hazards. Sitting on 2.2 hectares of land set to be completely cleared. Stage 1 involved deconstructing 2 cooling towers, within 3 meters of live 11,000 Volt suspended cables. Operating in close proximity to a live power grid, meant dust and vibration control was crucial to avoid tripping the equipment and cutting off half of the cities power supply. Initial seperation was completed by hand and included cutting pipes with about 80 mm thickness. The weather had to be closely monitored as electrical storms posed extremely high risk for lightening strike. Read more on this project here.
The fall of “Pigeon Palace”
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.
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.
Imperial Tobacco Wellington
This 7 building Demolition was monumental for Wellington, with the highest level of recycling in history. The team of 24 men and women worked with some amazing innovations to get the job completed safely. See part 1 of our behind the scenes video below (left) explaining our new dust suppression system.
100% of the structures concrete was crushed onsite to be recycled back into the foundations of the new development. A further 4,000 tonnes of concrete was trucked in from other job sites. Meaning 115% of concrete was recycled. On top of this, 100% of the steel was recycled and 4 truckloads of native timber sacking was salvaged.
Wainuiomata Shopping Centre
The 1970’s, near abandoned shopping centre had become quite the eye sore for locals, it was said to be the saddest shopping centre in New Zealand. With 2 of the 24 spaces occupied the public were very excited to hear of Woolworths $60 million plan to redevelop the area. The ghost mall had to go. The project featured 2 stages of Demolition in close proximity to the surrounding public. Met with tight deadlines the highly experienced team exceeded the clients expectations with time to spare, enabling for a smooth transition into the next phase of the development.
