Authorities invite demolition contractors to submit applications to be on an approved list.
The municipality of Abu Dhabi is assessing which companies should be allowed to rip down buildings, amid charges that most of them are “shady, dodgy operations”.
Leading contractors praised the move as a sign the capital is serious about the potentially harmful health and environmental effects of careless destruction of dilapidated structures, some of which contain asbestos, a carcinogen.
The process should also rule out the “smash-and-bash merchants” working on large projects, said Ed Forero, who has registered his company, GTS Demolition, for pre-qualification.
“Ninety-nine per cent of them are shady, dodgy operations,” he said of other demolition companies.
He would like to see the municipality “whittle it down to five or six [companies] that can conduct demolitions in the area”.
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