UK contractor helps rescue roof of local landmark.
Following the recent announcement by Swindon Borough Council that it was stepping in to save the unsafe roof of the former Mechanics Institute in the town, local demolition specialist Lawson Group was drafted in to rescue the roof of the local landmark building before it collapsed completely.
Lawson Demolition deployed a team of operatives to carefully dismantle the unsafe part of the roof by hand, whilst preserving the Grade II listed façade of the building by erecting a façade retention scaffold, and forming a cut line to keep the safe part of the roof from falling in.
Traffic around the historic site had to be diverted as Lawson Demolition employed the use of an 85 and a 50 tonne crane for access and removal of materials from the roof. The operatives removed the temporary roof covering and damaged roof timbers whilst the stability of the building was monitored by council approved surveyors. Lawson Demolition completed works on the site when the roof was declared safe following the complex and detailed work carried out.
