Useful context before commercial demolition work
Environmental due diligence sits ahead of the physical work on almost every commercial job here. A contractor should commission a desk study of the plot's industrial history and, where that history suggests risk, intrusive soil sampling before excavation begins. Confirmed contamination is dealt with under an agreed remediation method statement, which can mean excavating and disposing of affected soil off-site or treating it in place depending on what the contamination is and how deep it runs. Skipping this stage is the single most common reason a commercial demolition on Severnside overruns its schedule.
