Doosan excavators spearhead German demolition project.
Gebrüder Kirchner GmbH of Elxleben in Germany has used new Doosan machines for the demolition of a cultural and recreational centre on the Moskauer Platz in Erfurt in Germany. Three crawler excavators, a wheeled excavator and a wheel loader from Doosan have been used on the job.
The cultural and recreational centre was opened on Erfurt’s Moskauer Platz in 1984. The three-storey concrete building with its restaurant, two halls, a library, a bowling alley and other rooms offered 7,000 residents on the Moskauer Platz and many other people from Erfurt an extensive variety of activities. The centre was closed in 1997 and, after many years of vacancy, has now been torn down. A modern community shopping centre is to be built on the site for completion by Easter 2014.
A period of eight weeks was planned for the demolition. Within this time period, Gebrüder Kirchner GmbH ripped down the concrete building, recycled the demolition debris and subsequently compressed it for reuse in the new building.
To do this job, Gebrüder Kirchner GmbH chose two Doosan DX300LC excavators, one of which is a new Stage IIIB compliant DX300LC-3 model, a DX255LC-3 crawler excavator, a DX190W wheeled excavator and a DL420-3 wheel loader. The machines were mainly used for demolition and loading work and for feeding the mobile demolition system. They were in action for eight to twelve hours each day and proved to be very efficient during this time.
André Kirchner, the company’s Managing Director, had the following to say: “We purchased all the machines over the past two years. After our extremely positive experiences with the first Doosan machines with regard to performance, reliability and the comparatively low diesel consumption rate, and also our great satisfaction with the service provided by BVG Dachwig, we decided again on Doosan for our new purchases.”
