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A demolition contractor's insolvency is rarely a clean stop-work event. This article sets out how UK developers can secure the site, untangle plant and material ownership, manage subcontractors and appoint a replacement contractor without losing programme control in 2026.
Folding soft strip into a lump-sum demolition price hides the salvage value, blurs the asbestos interface and removes any incentive to segregate waste at source. This article argues for giving the strip phase its own scope, programme and tender line.
Fuel tanks, redundant foundations, contamination, buried services and archaeology can sit unnoticed beneath a demolition site. This article sets out a developer's pre-demolition ground-risk checklist and explains why early investigation protects programme and cost.
Demolition is still routinely procured after planning, long after the decisions that shape it have been locked in. This piece argues that a demolition contractor appointed at RIBA Stage 2 changes surveys, waste strategy, party wall planning and the main works programme for the better - and at a fraction of the cost of unpicking them later.
Demolition inside a conservation area is an evidential exercise long before it becomes a construction one. This guide sets out how developers can sequence heritage assessment, surveys and condition discharge so that clearance work supports the planning timetable rather than wrecking it.
Too many demolition contracts are still written as disposal exercises. A properly scoped pre-demolition audit turns a building into a schedule of reusable assets — and gives developers defensible evidence for planning, carbon and cost claims.
A demolition price that comes in well below the rest of the field is rarely a demonstration of efficiency. Here are seven tell-tale signs that a bid has been built on omission rather than insight, and what each one tends to cost a developer once work starts.