On Site Services
Demolition Work
SPEC has experience in technically difficult and potentially dangerous demolition work.
Services include:
1. Removal of dangerous structures:
- NMBM: Fishwater Flats Reclamation Works FS Building
o Removal of 120 units of 3 ton pre-cast / post tensioned cladding beams from a height of 18m
o The beams had become a danger due to the advanced stage of reinforcement corrosion and concrete spalling
2. DRC De Duin – Humewood: Church Spire
- Removal of 75 tons of cast in situ reinforced concrete forming the church spire at a height of 32m
- The spire became a danger due to the advanced stage of reinforcement corrosion and concrete spalling.
3. We also have experience in rock breaking by means of:
- Pneumatic drilling/breaking (hand or machine)
- Chemical breaking (Catrock type)
- Assisting specialist dynamite blasting companies
- Pneumatic saw cutting
4. Typical tasks completed are:
- Concrete breaking & saw cutting in a tunnel to -3m * +-20m long = +- 60m³ of concrete to remove (labour intensive method)
- Rock breaking (granite type) by means of drilling and using Catrock on top layers of rock (80% of this project was labour intensive methods)
- Assist specialist dynamite blasting company for lower sections of rock. Estimated at +-350m³ of rock removed
- Concrete Protection & Rehabilitation
- Abrasive Blasting
- Coatings & Linings
- Mechanical Maintenance & Rehabilitation
- Construction of Civil Structures
- Building and Renovations
- Refurbishment of Raw Water Supply Systems
- Water Treatment Works
Wastewater Treatment Works
- Demolition Work
- Waterproofing
- Borehole Implementation & Reticulation
- Pipe Wrapping
- Masts & Elevated Structures
- Asbestos Removal