Two Glasgow tower blocks set to be demolished next year in simultaneous blast.
G
lasgow Housing Association (GHA) plans to bring down the two blocks on the site at the same time to minimise disruption to the local community.
Safedem Ltd, which had the demolition contract for the first block, recently won the contract to carry out demolition work on the second block – resulting in plans to bring down the two simultaneously.
Local residents would have faced two sets of road and rail closures, as well as evacuations from their homes, if the demolitions had taken part separately.
Jim Sneddon, GHA’s Executive Director of Regeneration, said: “We are always very mindful about the disruption a demolition causes to the wider community. “When we appointed Safedem as the contractor for the second block at Red Road we felt it made sense to now consider doing the two blocks at once.
William Sinclair, managing director of Safedem, recently named Demolition Company of the Year and Explosive Demolition Company of the Year, said: “We have been working with GHA and the local community for just over a year now and have carried out continual reviews to minimise the impact of our operations upon local residents and businesses.
“Now that we are involved with the demolition of this next building, it didn’t make sense to go ahead and demolish the first building then, a few months later, demolish the next building. It does, however, make sense to have one blowdown demolition operation bringing both buildings down at the same time to minimise the impact on the community. It means there will be less upheaval having only one evacuation for local residents and businesses instead of two.”
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