Established in 1840, Robinson & Birdsell Ltd is one of the UK's largest demolition and dismantling companies providing a complete in-house service including; demolition, dismantling, explosives engineering, materials recycling and land remediation. The company has experience working across; the Energy and Utilities, Heavy Industrial, Petrochemical and Pharmaceutical, Urban and Residential sectors.
This experience gained from 181 years of operating, allows the company to offer its clients a service that is as resolutely professional as it is unique. Robinson & Birdsell Ltd is one of a select few demolition and dismantling companies that provide a complete in-house service in all aspects of demolition and material recycling.
We are one in a small number of companies with its own explosives division operating internationally. Consequently, we are often required to fulfil this specialist requirement for other demolition companies and organisations. It is our belief that this unique 'in-house' capability adds significant value and control to the safe delivery of all projects.
This experience gained from 181 years of operating, allows the company to offer its clients a service that is as resolutely professional as it is unique. Robinson & Birdsell Ltd is one of a select few demolition and dismantling companies that provide a complete in-house service in all aspects of demolition and material recycling.
We are one in a small number of companies with its own explosives division operating internationally. Consequently, we are often required to fulfil this specialist requirement for other demolition companies and organisations. It is our belief that this unique 'in-house' capability adds significant value and control to the safe delivery of all projects.
Services
Explosive Demolition of Two Cooling Towers at Blackburn Meadows, Sheffield for E.ON UK Plc. The demolition of two cooling towers using explosives to generate a collapse mechanism with particular emphasis on the collapse being away from the M1 viaduct and the charge weights limited to reduce air over pressure.
Following a competitive tender Robinson & Birdsell Ltd were appointed by Hull City Council to demolish two tower blocks, Milldane and Ashthorpe, by the controlled use of explosives engineering. The blocks were situated on Hull's Orchard Park Estate and were twenty two and twenty storeys respectively.
