Orman Building Demo

Ground/Bill:  I have experience with "emergency" work.  First, this wasn't really "emergency work"---they had several days to line this up.  "Emergency" is, this water main broke and you need to respond within one hour, and stay on the job 24 hours a day until it is finished."  Whatever it takes.  Send me 10 men and let's go.  By photo evidence, it started on the morning of August 14th.  One hoe, one operator, one worker hosing the dust, and, perhaps, a third operating a front end loader.  Apparently, whatever wasn't reclaimed (large beams) was dropped in the basement and not hauled off.  Project was finished by 3:39, August 16th.  No evidence of overnight work.  So, hoe and operator at, say, $200.00/hr (hoe $125.00, operator $75.00/hr.)  X  24 (8 X 3 days)  equals $4,800.  24 hours labor for 2 other employees @ $50.00/hr. each equals $2,400.  Move-in, move-out, 4 hours (generous) @ $50.00/hr. equals $200.00.  Misc. materials (plastic protective fencing, etc.)  say, $2,000 to be generous equals $2,000.  Water for hosing, let's say $1,000 to be generous (water might even have been supplied by the city at no charge). Even if some disposal was involved, let's again be generous and say $5,000.  Let's see what we have: $4,800 + $2,400 + $200.00 + $2,000 + $1,000 + $5,000 = $15,400.  Yeah, that really gets close to $50,000 real fast.  Can you think of anything that was left out for $35,000?   Also, don't forget that the city has to have an agreement with a demolition company to respond to this type of project relatively quickly.  With as many buildings as the city has demolished recently, this should have been relatively routine.  Just for the sake of argument, let's up the equipment cost to $200/hr., up $75/hr. X  24 hours; add another $1,800.  Total, $17,200.    Uh, yeah, I did do project estimates for a number of years.     chmoore

Details......unless you do this for a living.  It's expensive when you have to call on a emergency. Hauling/Dumping to clear it quickly costs $$. You want quick service you pay.  This town doesn't know what pro-active means.  

Ms Judy stated at last nights council meeting that City Hall paid less than $50,000 for the demo of this small section of the Orman Building.

Were there no steel I beams to be recycled?

Have any of you paid for disposal lately? I paid  $875 for disposal of just a 1 1/2 car garage that my brothers and i tore down. Having the ability to get rid of the debris is where the cost/profit comes in.

Well, wasn't that cozy?   Up to $75,000.  Our pictorial log started (above) on August 14th---Tuesday---and was broom clean by 3:39 Thursday, August 16th.  Three days, one hoe/operator, debris removal, one guy hosing the area, three sidewalk superintendents.  Not bad for $25,000 a day.   How many bids did they have, again?    chmoore

Vivian Moon wrote: 409 I believe this demo will cost the city between $225,000 and $300,000.

409

Great photos!

409 wrote: Talked to one of the guys & he said there was no asbestos in that side of the building.     This is as far back as they are going to go for now.

Talked to one of the guys & he said there was no asbestos in that side of the building.

Asbestos?  I don't see no stinking asbestos.      chmoore