7 years to build towers… now 7 to demolish them!

james73 · 7 years to build towers… now 7 to demolish them!

GLASGOW'S Red Road Flats will take seven years to demolish the same time it took
to build them more than 40 years ago.

The eight skyscrapers in Balornock were hailed as the high-rise solution to housing
problems of Scotland's largest city.

Now the flats in the north of the city are earmarked to come down as part of a
housing revolution which will see nearly 3000 new-build homes for social rent.

Today a Glasgow Housing Association spokeswoman revealed that, due to the
building design and the presence of asbestos in the flats, they will have to be
dismantled brick by brick.

The Red Road tower blocks, unlike any other similar construction at the time in
Glasgow, were built with a steel framework and asbestos insulation.

The spokeswoman said: "All eight buildings have now been earmarked for demolition.

"Due to their type of construction it is likely that the buildings will need to be
manually de-constructed. Demolition will likely take up to seven years."

This means they will take as long to demolish as it did to build them in the 1960s.

It is expected the demolition will probably begin in around two years with the contract
for the work soon coming up for grabs.

GHA stressed any asbestos in the buildings was not a threat to those living there.

James H

Stuball

Let the neds at it... they'll have it down within 7 weeks and if they die due to the asbestos, no big deal

james73

Boss thinking.

James H

Unh@ppyb@st@rd

there will be some liberal thinkers (tw@ts) who will want neds to put on masks and protective gear before they go vandilising as it may break thier civil liberties if not supplied

maximusmop · safedem

safedem(who did stirlingfauld) have the contract to strip the red road, all of the tower's starting nxt year with the big one right at the back, cannot remember the name of it

falseface

Dieing of Asbestosis is not a sight you want to see or even want a living person to go through

Alex Glass

It would be really good to get photos from the top before the demolition team move in

maximusmop · re

yes asbestosis is not nice, safedem are getting a big mast climber thing to put up round the red road to strip it , will be intresting.