Ayr Police station

Project Description

Client: Police Scotland

Duration: June 2025 - January 2026

Building construction:

1-5 Storey main Steel frame structure with concrete cast in situ floors. mix of masonry, concrete and metal facade. separate traditional built brick with timber sloped roof garage lockups lining listed sandstone wall to rear. metal former telephone mast at rear, height of 37m

Scope of works:

  • Site establishment- Hoarding to elevations where no existing fencing/walls located

  • Full internal soft strip

  • Non Licensed and licensed asbestos removal

  • hand and mechanical demolition of Garage lockups

  • Hand declading of structure

  • Phased mechanical demolition of main steel frame structure

  • Removal of all hardstandings and foundations

  • demolition of 37m mast

  • removal of underground fuel tank

  • Processing of all material and removal from site

  • Grading and finishing site

  • Installation of new kerbing to footpath

  • Installation of new mesh fencing and 2no vehicle gates to match existing fencing.

  • Installation of paved walkway for farm foods emergency exit route

  • Fabrication and installation of new palisade emergency push bar gate.

Key Challenges

  • No road closures during works

  • Works were carried out next to a listed sandstone wall making up the rear boundary of the site and a listed church to the rear.

  • Upon contract award live substation was still live within building soft strip and asbestos removal

  • works progressed whilst the substation was relocated to corner within site and existing substation removed- demolition works progressed with protection in place to new substation

  • For full duration of works we had to provide safe fire escape route from farm foods through site to the main road

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Demolition Methods

Asbestos Removal: works involved the removal of large quantities of Asbestos material working along site our specialist Licensed asbestos removal contractor included: 6559m2 bitumen adhesive | 1033m2 ACM Floor tiles | 165LM ACM Mastic | 479m2 Cement | 3272m2 AIB | 274 Cisterns | 4695LM ACM Putty Removal of the AIB Cladding to columns required the full hand de-cladding of the building to allow the AIB panels to be removed whole

High reach demolition: following asbestos removal in sections of the building to allow demolition to follow directly on to meet tight programme. the structures were demolished utilising our PC390HRD-11 High reach, utilising steel shear attachment structure was demolished top down bay by bay through the length of the structure working towards building cores. Demolition of telephone mast and Grubbing up of all hard standings and underground fuel tank.

Remedial works: site was infilled and graded utilising site won 6f2 from the processing operations. new kerbing and mesh fencing was installed around the perimeter of the site with 2no vehicle access gates. New slabbed fire escape route was formed through the site from farm foods to the main road with new palisade escape gate fabricated and installed.

Achievements

  • No lost time

  • Works completed on programme

  • No Site complaints

  • The Demolition and asbestos removal contractor worked collaboratively to clear then demolish section of the building in phases to allow tight programme to be achieved.

  • all site operatives were minimum asbestos cat b trained allow undiscovered asbestos to be identified and removed safely without causing any delays.

  • 98% recycle rate- during the course of the works we achieved a 98% recycle rate for all material onsite- inert material was all crushed to 6f2 for reuse onsite with excess taken offsite to local projects.