throughout the building, including lead, mercury, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), ozonedepleting substances, mould, animal excrement and carcasses, and hypodermic needles. In order to make that property safe, all of those materials needed to be removed and all of the contamination needed to be contained. Because the building was a heritage building, care also needed to be taken to ensure the heritage elements remained after the abatement and demolition were complete. Schouten made sure that care was taken, and the property is now slated for a variety of uses, including office, warehouse, light industrial, recreation and retail. Then there was the Forks Road Bridge in Welland. That was a rapidly-deteriorating 88-yearold bridge across the Welland Canal that Schouten dismantled and recycled “in record time,” Greg says. “That was a very technical demolition over water,” he recalls, “and since it was impossible to safely predict how long the bridge would remain strong, a hard deadline for the bridge’s removal was created. We ended up getting it done early.” More recently, Schouten has also been involved in some demolitions of large industrial buildings. Last year, for example, they did the demolition for the Thamesford turkey plant, which was another highly technical project. They also recently demolished a pulp and paper mill in Thorold – “that was a very decrepit and old structure; it took a lot of care to dismantle it and do what we needed to THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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