TDS to fell Motherwell tower on 20 November.
The DemolishDismantle website is reporting that a date has been set to implode the Glencairn Tower in Motherwell.
On 20 November, Merseyside-based Technical Demolition Services will drop a 17-storey tower block that has been plagued by escalating contract costs. Following a botched survey which failed to identify most of the asbestos contained within the structure, the cost of the project has risen by over 50 per cent adding over £380,000 to the original £703,400 contract awarded to Technical Demolition Services Ltd (TDS).
North Lanarkshire Council design manager Jim Orr said: “The survey missed a bit of asbestos in pretty much every flat and this is the reason the costs have gone up from the original tender but we are still well within the £2 million estimate for the project.”
The tower was built in 1964 and is the largest of Motherwell council’s 49 multi-storey blocks.
