St Marys Hospital

For information on the demolition of St Mary's Hospital - Portsmouth, visit our new website:  http://www.st-marys-hospital-demolition.co.uk

Southsea Fire - Joanna's Nightclub

Demolition and Salvage Ltd have been called in by the Principal Building Control Officer of Portsmouth City Council to help Hampshire fire and rescue in making safe Savoy Buildings, South Parade Southsea. We have excellent relations with the Fire Service, hosting county and international Urban Search and Rescue exercises at our Portsdown Main site.

Demolition and Salvage staff and directors were on site late last night assessing situation. Machinery is moving to site today to make the building safe. The company regularly carries out emergency works and have worked with Hampshire and Sussex fire service and the MOD.

Demolition and Salvage Ltd started work on demolishing the burnt down Joanna's Nightclub at 6 am Wednesday 10th August 2011.

Our Liebherr High reach was needed to complete most of the demolition.

We had almost completed the job last Friday but our machine drivers were told to stop work in the afternoon, due to investigations into the cause of the fire, which has still not been confirmed.

The job is estimated to be finished by 19th August.

MoD Site Demolition

Demolition and Salvage are currently demolishing an Art Deco building at DSTL Portsdown Main also known as ASWE. The building was designed in the 1930’s by the MoD for electronics research and radar production. The construction was delayed by world war 2 and was not completed until 1952.   

The site formerly owned by DSTL Executive agency, was no longer suitable as an office environment as the remote location of the building could not keep up with the ever changing technologies in the industry. When trying to sell the building a survey made announced that it was structurally unsafe. The site was shut in 1997.

Demolition and Salvage has a long history of working on the site. The style of the building and amazing views of Portsmouth Dockyard, the sea and the South Downs has attracted lots of attention from artists and photographers over the years. This is a historic building that will definitely be missed.
 

Filling station demolition 

Demolition and Salvage are currently demolishing the former Bishopstoke Motors workshop and filling station. Work includes the safe removal and disposal of Asbestos Cement roof sheets, the decommissioning and removal of the underground fuel tanks. The site is being redeveloped as part of a housing scheme and all hardcore and concrete is being crushed on site for use as fill material for the new development. An estimated 97% of the materials arising are being recycled.

Hm Naval Base crane accident

Following a serious dockside crane accident in November 2004 the company received a call for help from HM Naval Base, Portsmouth.

Work continued at night and at the weekend to clear the wreckage before the return of naval ships for the Christmas break. The quayside was finally swept clean and handed back to allow HMS Southampton to berth alongside on time.

To read more about this accident follow this link for the BBC News Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4001871.stm

Demolition of Goonilly Satellite Earth Station - Antenna 2

Demolition and Salvage Ltd were hired to do the high reach work for the demolition of one of the oldest, giant satellite dishes at the Satellite Earth Station at BT's Goonhilly Downs in Cornwall.

Antenna 2, the second dish to be built in 1968, has reached the end of its operational life. The dismantling of this 960 tonne landmark will take three months and will make way for faster, more advanced fibre-optic transfer equipment.  

Parts of the antenna, such as the transmitters have been recovered for use by some of the other 60 dishes at the station. A 10-tonne, 10 metre long screw, which was used to elevate the dish will be recovered and put on display outside the Goonhilly visitors centre.