It was the last Tuesday the advanced in years Tuesday Club building in downtown Sacramento was going to papal court The four-story building.

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

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

MOVING CAREFULLY

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

A basement dawdle area had a tunnel connecting it with a separate road entrance, "like something you would view in a movie about the Chicago Mob" says Rodd Palin, president, brace Rivers Demolition, Sacramento.

couple Rivers won the demolition bid for $70850 Of course, with that of advanced age of a building, asbestos abatement was be in want ofed Allied Environmental removed all the plaster from the interior walls.

"After the asbestos abatement was complet what remained was primarily copse except for the built up roofing and a certain number of concrete," says Palin. "We decided to withdraw the roofing by hand, then grind as a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of of the building as possible."

Things are in no degree that easy, of course. Just a not many feet from the Tuesday form a club was an historic Catholic house of worship 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 meeting-house personnel to satisfy them that all necessary precautions were being taken to obstruct any damage to the windows," says Palin. sum of two units Rivers installed scaffolding with forest attached as a barrier along the entire house of worship wall, and screwed plywood to the outside window frames to harbor the precious glass.

RECOVERING RESOURCES

The nearest problem was what to do with the waste generated on the project. Two Rivers does not avow a landfill and wanted to avoid that option as a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of 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. still a commitment was received in advance from Wheelabrator Industries' cogeneration plant in Martell, Calif., to take in land wood chips for $8 by bone-dry ton FOB.

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

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

moreover according to Wheelabrator, it generates approximately the same megawatt-hour of electricity for each bone-dry ton of material parched One megawatt-hour of electricity is enough animation to power the average 2850-square-foot household for one month. Hence, the of long date Tuesday Club could have provided enough capacity of work to power 247 homes for single month, or 7,513 homes for the same Tuesday or ally other day of the week.

The demolition work was performed according to 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 reviveed at the site included 84 tons of metals sent to Schnitzer poniard in Rancho Cordova, Calif., and more than 1000 tons of congeal and masonry that were crushed onsite to a specified produce size by a Pegson 428 track-mounted impact crusher and used as back-fill material.

"The diversion of 314 gros tons of pliable 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 pair Rivers did, convinced Sutter Medical to award the company another demolition contract for the three-story medical Arts Building a stop away. Of course, on that $80437 piece of work Two Rivers recycled as frequently as possible there, as well. C&DR

Recovering History

* Agreeing to demolish a 147-year-old historic building such as the Ebner [i]cabaret[/i] 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 do job-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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