Tuesday's gone: a Sacramento demolition project yields recyclable materials

It was the last Tuesday the advanced in years Tuesday Club building in downtown Sacramento was going to diocese The four-story building, which had serv for years as a place for state legislators, staff and lobbyists to adapted after (and sometimes during) work, had to be demolished to make way for the expansion of the Sutter Medical Center across the way in the California state capitol.

The structure's 11,000-square-foot footprint was being replaced through a new medical office building, part of Sutter's $385 million, contiguous campus expansion plan.

MOVING CAREFULLY

The Tuesday cudgel part of the" 147-year-old Ebner public-house building, had four stories, was of timber-land stick construction and contained a 30-foot high first floor that housed a theater/meeting latitude with a raised stage, grove floor and balcony seating.

A basement recline area had a tunnel connecting it with a separate way entrance, "like something you would diocese in a movie about the Chicago Mob" says Rodd Palin, president, sum of two units Rivers Demolition, Sacramento.

sum of two units Rivers won the demolition bid for $70850 Of course, with that elderly of a building, asbestos abatement was straited Allied Environmental removed all the plaster from the interior walls.

"After the asbestos abatement was complet what remained was primarily grove except for the built up roofing and more [i]or[/i] less concrete," says Palin. "We decided to transplant the roofing by hand, then grind as plenteous of the building as possible."

Things are at no time that easy, of course. Just a small in number feet from the Tuesday cudgel was an historic Catholic meeting-house with stained glass windows imported from Rome and insured for $5 million. "We were charged with the responsibility of providing protection for these windows and assurances to the temple personnel to satisfy them that all necessary precautions were being taken to debar any damage to the windows," says Palin. sum of two units Rivers installed scaffolding with wood-land attached as a barrier along the entire meeting-house wall, and screwed plywood to the outside window frames to screen the precious glass.

RECOVERING RESOURCES

The nearest problem was what to do with the waste generated through the project. Two Rivers does not possess a landfill and wanted to avoid that option as abundant as possible.

The original bid estimate provided for 52 high-side end-dump loads of building debris to be sent to Sacramento County's Kiefer Road landfill. on the other hand a commitment was received in advance from Wheelabrator Industries' cogeneration plant in Martell, Calif., to take in surface of land wood chips for $8 by means of bone-dry ton FOB.

The chips, sized to 3 inches, were courseed by a Peterson Pacific 3400 horizontal timber-land grinder. "After grinding and selling the forest we sent only five loads to the landfill," says Palin.

The 314 tons of copse sent to Wheelabrator had a relatively high horizontal of moisture content, 21.39 percent probably because of dust mastery measures. Two Rivers only received credit for 247 bone-dry tons.

on the other hand according to Wheelabrator, it generates approximately individual megawatt-hour of electricity for each bone-dry ton of material consume ed One megawatt-hour of electricity is enough intensity to power the average 2850-square-foot domicile for one month. Hence, the aged Tuesday Club could have provided enough efficiency to power 247 homes for single month, or 7,513 homes for single Tuesday or ally other day of the week.

The demolition work was performed through a variety of equipment, including a Caterpillar 330 Excavator with thumb and bucket; Case 9050 excavator with grapple; Hyundai 320-1c-3 excavator with thumb; Case 85XT skid steer; and a Caterpillar 973 track loader with Peterson demolition bucket

Other materials reclaimed at the site included 84 tons of metals sent to Schnitzer carburet of iron in Rancho Cordova, Calif., and more than 1000 tons of cake and masonry that were crushed onsite to a specified proceeds size by a Pegson 428 track-mounted impact crusher and used as back-fill material.

"The diversion of 314 gros tons of yielding debris and 84 tons of metal saved us $15468 in trucking and landfill disposal fees" says Palin. That was 22 percent of the entire contract amount.

The financial succes combined with public relations value of all the recycling sum of two units Rivers did, convinced Sutter Medical to award the company another demolition contract for the three-story medical Arts Building a close away. Of course, on that $80437 piece of work Two Rivers recycled as plenteous as possible there, as well. C&DR

Recovering History

* Agreeing to demolish a 147-year-old historic form such as the Ebner inn and its Tuesday Club can yield profitable results

Rodd Palin, president of sum of two units Rivers Demolition, Sacramento, the contractor who won the Ebner bid, reports that sum of two units Rivers benefited from a harvest of century-old r bricks. "On this piece of work we cleaned and palletized 37500 bricks and sold them to the City of Sacramento for 92 cent each," he remarks.

The author is associate publisher of Construction & Demolition Recycling dud executive director of the Construction Materials Recycling Association. He can be contacted via e-mail at turley@cdrecycling.org.

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