Bylaugh Park Woods asbestos survey
by Nick Davenport
One of our valued clients asked if we could quote to survey 44 buildings erected on a site requisitioned by the RAF in WWII. After the RAF left in 1948 the buildings were mostly abandoned, with some briefly used to house chickens. They have now been empty for more than 30 years, however. The site covered roughly 15 acres with the buildings spread throughout. They were mainly asbestos huts (this style of building was introduced in 1942) and as you can imagine, they were in all states of decay where the forest was slowly breaking them up. We arranged a site visit as the job was unique and we wouldn’t have been able to price fairly from plans, photos or descriptions. After the visit, we presented our quote, which was accepted not long after.
As the survey manager, I was delighted to have won the job because ones like it don’t come up that often. We carried out the survey over a five-day period, and in that time we discovered a further five buildings that the client didn’t know were there. Anglian’s survey team surveyed each building, highlighting asbestos cement in situ and debris throughout the forest and pipe insulation. Of the 281 samples taken on site, 98% came back containing asbestos. We have now issued all reports for this client and have now been instructed to present a quotation for the removal of all asbestos containing materials on the site, which we are now in the process of doing. The survey team was Wayne Bemrose and Olly Budd (trainee).
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