Erith Group is currently working on Europe’s largest demolition site; and Demolition News has been granted exclusive access.
Erith Group, one of the UK’s leading demolition contractors, has started work on what is believed to be Europe’s largest demolition project at Lafarge’s former cement works at Northfleet, Kent. Covering an area of some 34 hectares, the demolition is scheduled to take two years. The site comprises more than 70 buildings and structures and presents a multitude of challenges.
The cement works was opened by Blue Circle Industries in 1969, although the site can trace its cement production heritage back almost 200 years. At the height of production, the cement site was capable of producing around 3.6 million tonnes of cement clinker each year. In April last year the cement site was closed having exhausted the use of chalk reserves and Erith was awarded the highly prestigious demolition contract.
In this exclusive video, Demolition News provides a brief insight into the contract and shows footage of a pair of new Sandvik hydraulic breakers purchased specifically to tackle this monster contract.
