Fleming house- Cumbernauld

Project Description

Client: North Lanarkshire council

Duration: November 2024 - September 2025

Building construction:

8-storey concrete frame featuring cast-in-situ rib slabs with cast in situ stair and lift cores. Masonry cladding covered the gable, while concrete panels clad the remaining elevations. The roof comprises a concrete deck with foam insulation, waterproof felt, and concrete panel upstands; it contained former telephone antennas and rooftop mezzanine.

Scope of works:

  • Site establishment- Hoarding to front elevation and heras fencing to rear

  • TTRO application for partial footpath occupations

  • Full internal soft strip

  • Scaffolding to 2no wings

  • Robotic demolition of 2no wings to 4 storey

  • High reach demolition of 8storey office block

  • Removal of all hardstandings and foundations

  • Processing of all material and removal from site

  • Grading and finishing site

  • Installation of new kerbing to footpath

  • Reconfiguration of hoarding to in-ground system to be left in place

  • Installation of new timber fencing to remainder of site

Key Challenges

  • No road closures were permitted during the works- requiring the top down robotic demolition of the 2no wings in close proximity of the shopping centre main access and dual carriageway.

    • Works were carried out next to a busy shopping centre, requiring the careful management of site traffic, dust, vibration and noise.

    • 2 no main live sewers for Cumbernauld ran directly under the centre of the building these required protecting for duration of works and careful removal of foundations around these sewers.

    • Upon contract award a electrical substation was still live within building to prevent the extension of program and with client's request to make start onsite- GBS Isolated power at each floor allowing soft strip to be complete ahead of removal of substation in march 2025 to allow demolition works to follow directly on.

  • telephone masts on the roof were decommissioned and temporary mast was installed within site boundary in carpark- Access was required to be maintained for contractors carrying out maintenance and checks throughout length of contract.

Fleming house, 8 storey concrete frame office building in Cumbernauld, north Lanarkshire, Uk under demolition
Fleming house, 8 storey concrete frame office building in Cumbernauld, north Lanarkshire, Uk under demolition
Fleming house, 8 storey concrete frame office building in Cumbernauld, north Lanarkshire, Uk under demolition
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Aerial view of a city block showing roads, parking lots, a construction site with a partially demolished building, and surrounding commercial buildings and greenery. Fleming house, 8 storey concrete frame office building in Cumbernauld, north Lanarks
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Demolition Methods

Top-down robotic demolition: due to site constraints of the dual carriage way and main access

into adjacent shopping center with no road closures permitted we carried out the robotic

demolition of the 2no wings of the building down to 4 story. Encapsulating the structure in fully

boarded debris netted scaffolding and utilizing out fleet of DXR robotic demolition excavators to

demolish Concrete floors, beams and columns. External

High reach demolition: following robotic demolition of wings the remainder of the structure was

demolished utilising our PC390HRD-11 High reach, utilising concrete pulveriser structure was demolished top down bay by bay through the length of the structure working inwards to the central Lift core

Achievements

  • No lost time

  • Works completed on programme

  • No Site complaints

  • The Demolition and Cut & Core divisions collaborated to complete all work in‑house and on schedule.

  • 100% recycle rate- during the course of the works we achieved a 100% recycle rate for all material onsite