NCM Stays Ahead of Schedule for Office Building Demo

The demolition will make room for a new 350-unit apartment project.

Wed January 08, 2014 - Southeast Edition
Brenda Ruggiero

NCM Group of Charlotte, N.C., is nearly finished the demolition of the office building in the SouthPark section of the city.

According to Joseph Delahunty, operations manager, work began in mid-July on the former Maersk Shipping building, and will be completed shortly. The demolition will make room for a new 350-unit apartment project.

“The project is actually ahead of schedule by about two weeks,” Delahunty said. “We were asked to go out of sequence to accommodate a new apartment building going up. It was more difficult to complete this way, but we were able to do it, and it accelerated their schedule by 1-1/2 months.”

NCM is the demolition contractor, while JLB Partners is the general contractor, under the direction of Bryan Walker.

NCM’s contract entails the demolition of the 300,000 sq. ft. (27,870.9 sq m) office structure, which has been empty since 2009.

“The interior drywall and ceilings were removed via Bobcats and hand work,” Delahunty said. “We worked to segregate the recyclable material in the building. We had excavators equipped with shears, grapples, and buckets to demolish the building and below grade structures.”

Other machines used include Hitachi and a newly purchased Komatsu PC490 excavator with a Genesis attachment.

The number of people working on the job fluctuated between five and 20 throughout the timeline of the job.

Construction debris was disposed of in a landfill, concrete was taken to recycling yards and steel and non-ferrous metal was taken for reuse. A total of 90 loads of construction debris were removed, as well as 1,600 truckloads of concrete.

“The biggest challenge on the job site was demolishing the structure out of sequence to allow the GC to construct a below grade parking structure where part of the building once stood,” Delahunty said. “This meant demolishing next to a 25-foot drop for the remainder of the project while other contractors were working constructing the new parking garage while we maintained a safe work site. Plans were set in place and executed to allow the work to take place safely without incident.”

Brenda Ruggiero

Brenda Ruggiero has written for CEG for over 20 years. She lives near the town of Accident in far western Maryland. Her favorite assignments so far involved interviews with Survivor’s Boston Rob and hot dog eating champion Joey Chestnut. Both were involved in construction at one time.

Brenda holds a BA in Mass Communication with a writing focus from Frostburg State University and minors in Public Relations and Political Science. She works full time as a staff writer for a weekly newspaper, the Garrett County Republican. She enjoys feature writing the most, which gives her the opportunity to talk to people and share their stories.

Brenda and her middle school sweetheart, Reuben, have been married for over 34 years and have three grown children and four cats.

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