Work is underway to demolish Arizona’s Lumberjack Stadium.
It is easy to be critical of local newspaper coverage of demolition contracts (and we have certainly been critical in the past) but we do accept that they are writing for a different and local audience.
While readers of the Arizona Daily Sun were primarily interested in the fact that the Lumberjack Stadium is coming down to make way for a new health centre, we were far more intrigued by the reason given by a local demolition contractor not submitting a bid.
Todd Sleeper, the owner of Flagstaff-based Eagle Mountain Construction, said his company could have done the work. He said he discussed the demolition contract with Mortenson Construction, but ultimately decided against submitting a formal bid.
The strict requirements to meet the green building codes for the Health and Learning Center, he said, made it difficult for him to place a competitive bid. One stipulation, Sleeper said, would have required his crews to separate out the steel from the rubble of the former stadium.
Segregating steel from demolition arisings? What will they think of next.
Read the full story here.
