Today, Champion Environmental Services, Inc., began mobilizing equipment to prepare for the demolition of several commercial structures in Oak Park, Illinois. As utility cutoffs are finalized and with the environmental abatement now complete, interior demolition of the Westgate building will begin this week.
The challenges of working in a dense, urban-like environment, such as Oak Park are numerous. One difficulty we faced was getting the large equipment onsite. The properties slated for demolition are surrounded by heavy automobile and pedestrian traffic. With restaurants, high rise condominiums, a metra train stop, and plenty of retail in the immediate area, CESI had to devise a plan to move machinery in the safest and least inconvenient manner. An additional challenge was how to navigate a semi and lowboy on extremely narrow streets; it was determined our drivers could pull the trucks in but have great difficulty getting the trailers out.
Aided by a team of CESI workers that included flaggers and well place safety barricades, the machinery was unloaded on Harlem Avenue and then driven through a parking lot and onto the site. [Pictured above] The equipment drop was entirely seamless with little interruption to local business and without incident.
Champion Environmental Services, Inc., applies careful planning into each aspect of the work we perform always taking into consideration factors that are well beyond the immediate scope of work. Maximum team effort places safety as our first priority. The welfare of those who are immediately impacted by our actions drives the innovation – such distinctiveness is readily evident through solid strategic implementation and skillful project outcomes.
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