Tearing down the costs for businesses

While most industries suffer during the recession, demolition and regeneration booms as businesses cash-in on their redundant buildings and holdings, as Lee Demolition explain

Demolition and regeneration specialists Lee Demolition have experienced an impressive growth in contracts recently as landlords have looked to renew redundant offices, sites and factories. The Kent-based company is acquiring new state-of-the-art machinery and resources to keep up with demand for its specialist services after completion of a series of high-profile projects.

Not only does Lee offer total demolition, removal and regeneration projects, they also offer substantial credits against all materials that can be recycled. The firm believes that landlords can now see the benefit of turning over redundant sites to create clean, open sites ready for planning applications and future building works.

Lee have identified that there are currently huge numbers of property owners (particularly in the industrial sector) stuck with buildings that are draining vital capital from their portfolios, either currently out of use or deemed hazardous. Lee offer them the option to release the potential assets held in these sites.

Due to the nature of many industrial sites, Lee have developed a series of important specialist services to suit a variety of conditions. These include asbestos removal, hazardous waste extraction, oil and chemical plant sterilisation plus soil and groundwater remediation. The company works to stringent safety and environmental criteria, complementing their ethos of ‘resource before waste’.

Lee can offer services including high rise office and residential deconstruction, temporary propping works and façade retention including design work. They also undertake the complete strip-out of buildings for refurbishment purposes. Lee have long and varied experience of working in urban environments, including complicated projects such as high rise buildings in built up inner-city areas.

The company are currently working on three main operations all of which have involved demolition and regeneration of sites which have laid dormant for many years. Two of these sites; St Regis Paper Mill, Gwent and the Rhodia Chemical factory near Bristol, both featured explosive demolitions which were featured on ITV Wales and ITV South West respectively. Other major big-name projects have included the Goodyear Tyre factory at Wolverhampton and the MG Rover Plant at Longbridge.

“We’ve seen real interest from landlords of all sorts of sites not just industrial based, who after sitting on redundant property for many years watching their assets fall in value, have decided to act,” Lee Demolition Managing Director, David Lee commented. “When they realise we can often offset services with credits against the materials we recycle then the prospect is even more attractive.”

To speak to the Lee team about their varied services Tel: 01474 560788 or email: info@leegroupuk.com.
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