Demolition In UAE! pages: 38-40 - Pdworld.com
Demolition In UAE! pages: 38-40 - Pdworld.com
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in <strong>UAE</strong><br />
Breaking, cutting and digging under<br />
water in Dubai.<br />
It was around 50° C in the desert city of Al Ain near OMan when a<br />
pre-stressed bridge was demolished.<br />
Mika Myntti, reponsible for LODABs operations<br />
in <strong>UAE</strong>, has decades of experience<br />
from working in arabic countries.<br />
Dental care in 50°C.<br />
bringing the group total to 55 people.<br />
Wide range of machinery<br />
LODAB’s machine and tool fleet is continuously renewed<br />
and the <strong>com</strong>pany currently has 16 demolition excavators<br />
from 7.5 to 1<strong>40</strong>t with all the necessary hydraulic and mechanical<br />
tools and attachments weighing up to 23t. These<br />
include nine scrap shears, 10 pulverisers, 10 hydraulic<br />
breakers and about the same number of demolition and<br />
sorting grapples. <strong>In</strong> addition LODAB also has a number<br />
of Brokk machines, a big number of Bobcats, three large<br />
Liebherr cranes, mobile recycling crushers and screeners,<br />
a wind screener and a number of wheel loaders. For the<br />
clearance services they have suction containers and a<br />
vacuum suction device mounted on a truck.<br />
Two Komatsu PC228 excavators equipped with<br />
quick couplers have also been purchased recently from<br />
Oil Quick, together with a number of tools for scrap<br />
handling and a special screener for recycling light demolition<br />
material.<br />
LODAB is certified according to the Swedish quality<br />
system BF9K and is a member of the Swedish <strong>Demolition</strong><br />
Association as well as the Swedish Construction Federation.<br />
The <strong>com</strong>pany has the necessary requirements to<br />
carry out the services they offer and the staff is regularly<br />
updated with new regulations.<br />
Big Missions in Sweden and Abroad<br />
Although its main market is Sweden LODAB has taken<br />
on jobs abroad and these included two projects in Dubai<br />
and Al Ain. Both projects were for the demolition of<br />
reinforced concrete and steel bridges for the consortium<br />
BESIX, <strong>com</strong>prising the Belgium based <strong>com</strong>pany Sixt<br />
and the Dubai <strong>com</strong>pany Belhasa. The project in Dubai<br />
was for the demolition of the Al Garhoud Bridge. It<br />
was a difficult job and the necessary special demolition<br />
expertise was not available in the region.<br />
“The special knowledge and equipment to demolish<br />
a bridge like the Al Garhoud wasn’t available among local<br />
demolition contractors. When I say special knowledge I<br />
mean theoretical and practical knowledge and the necessary<br />
machinery and tools to bring down the structure<br />
within a tight programme. <strong>In</strong> addition the job needed to<br />
be done with the highest safety precautions and with as<br />
little disturbance as possible on the environment around<br />
the site,” says Lars-Olof Dahl.<br />
There is a lot of <strong>com</strong>petition on smaller and less<br />
<strong>com</strong>plicated projects from contractors from <strong>In</strong>dia or Pakistan,<br />
Russia, Turkey, Italy, UK and The Netherlands.<br />
“We can’t <strong>com</strong>pete on the smaller and easier jobs<br />
as our salary levels are so much higher for our men. But<br />
we can <strong>com</strong>pete on very qualified jobs where special<br />
machinery is needed and where efficiency is paramount.<br />
So it is cost effective to put our equipment on a ship all<br />
the way from Sweden,” says Lars-Olof. “We have a good<br />
position in the United Arab Emirates and are fast and<br />
pull down structures safely.”<br />
LODAB started demolition of Al Garhoud Bridge<br />
early in 2008 and project manager was Mika Myntti,<br />
who has several decades of experience from working<br />
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