Demolition begins at £11.2m RNLI centre

Demolition begins at 11.2m RNLI centre

8:57am Wednesday 3rd April 2013 in News By Paula Roberts

A DEMOLITION programme has begun at the RNLI headquarters in Poole to pave the way for an all-weather lifeboat centre.

The facility will allow the charity to build lifeboats in-house for the very first time saving millions of pounds each year and creating 90 new jobs.

The 11.2million project will see the demolition of various buildings on the site and this stage is expected to last around 15 weeks.

BAM Nuttall has been appointed as the RNLIs marine contractor and will carry out the demolition work, along with the work to strengthen the quay wall adjacent to the RNLIs site prior to the construction of the new building.

Howard Richings, head of estates management for the RNLI, said: Wed like to apologise in advance for any disturbance our neighbours suffer as a result of this necessary work.

We are aware we have private residents, businesses and a supermarket near to our site and sincerely hope the measures weve put in place will minimise any inconvenience they may experience.

These measures include restricting heavy plant operations to between 8.30am to 6pm Monday to Friday and 8.30am to 1pm on Saturdays. Screening will be used to reduce the noise and water sprinklers will dampen dust from the concrete as its broken down and stockpiled.

Mr Richings added: Environmental considerations are a key part of this project and we aim to keep costs down, so well be recycling and reusing materials from the old buildings wherever possible. This is why were breaking down the concrete on site. It means we dont have to transport waste material away to landfill sites, or have HGVs on local roads delivering new materials to the site at extra cost.

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