Brown and Mason underway on four-year power station demolition programme.
Brown and Mason Limited is in the early stages of a four-year programme to remove yet another power station from the British landscape.
The company has been appointed by Scottish Power to demolish and raze the majority of buildings at Longannet Power Station – Scotland’s last remaining coal fired power station – as well as the power plant building itself and chimney stack.
According to local newspaper reports, Longannet closed in March 2016 with the loss of 230 jobs – it’s thought up to 1,000 indirect jobs have been lost and the cost to the local economy has been put at £50 million – and the demolition process is expected to take four years to complete.
The project commenced on February 6 and demolition requires removal of all asbestos-containing materials, removal of all plant, demolition of identified buildings and auxiliary structures, removal of services and grading of ground levels across the site.
All demolition operations will be undertaken exclusively within the existing site area.
Longannet was built and commissioned during the mid-to-late 1960s and occupies around 200 hectares of land.
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