Red — exclusion
No entry, full stop, while the structure is being worked. The drop zone and anything a collapse could reach. Only the machine inside it, never a person.
Stackworth
How we work: the method statement, in public
Most contractors describe demolition as though it were an event. It is a document first — a written risk assessment and method statement agreed before a tooth touches brick, and a zone briefing every operative can recite. Here is ours, in the order it actually runs.
How a structure comes down
The method is the same on every job — because that is what safe looks like
No shortcut produces a quicker quote. The order below is how the trade's own code of practice says it is done, and it is the order we price by.
- 01
Walk the site
A pre-demolition survey on foot: the structure, what it touches, what the neighbours need protecting from, and what in it deserves a second life.
Free, and it obliges you to nothing
- 02
Asbestos first — always
A refurbishment & demolition asbestos survey by a qualified surveyor before anything else is planned. If suspect material turns up mid-job, work stops and the area clears. No survey, no start.
The trade's hard law
- 03
The RAMS is written
The risk assessment and method statement is agreed in writing before work begins — the sequence, the plant, the exclusion zones, the disposal routes. It is the document any real job answers to.
In writing, before a single strike
- 04
Services proven dead
Gas, power, water and comms are disconnected and PROVEN dead — never assumed. The check is recorded before the strip starts.
Checked, not assumed
- 05
Soft strip, then top down
Fittings and non-structural material come out first. Then the structure is reduced from the top, progressively, arisings cleared as they land — a stripped floor is never loaded, and nothing is undercut.
Never undercut
- 06
Weigh out, sign off
Every stream leaves weighed and documented — waste transfer notes on the lot. Brick, steel and timber are graded for reuse in the yard; the site is cleared, levelled and signed off.
Paper follows every load
Plain-terms description of how we run a demolition. On any real job the governing document is the site-specific RAMS, and consents are the Local Planning Authority’s call — never ours to wave through. Most demolition needs prior notification or permission: check with your LPA, or ask us to talk you through it.
Site zone briefing
Three colours run the site
Every operative is briefed on the zones before they set foot past the hoarding, and the same colours mark every job record in the office.
Amber — restricted
Briefed, authorised operatives only: plant movement, attachment changes, supervised salvage. You are in it because the RAMS says your task is.
Green — clear
The working zone outside the exclusion lines — welfare, the sorting line, the loading gate. Still a live site: PPE on, eyes up.
Not yet zoned
An area the briefing hasn't reached is treated as RED until it has. Unzoned never means safe; it means nobody has said so yet.
Stackworth's own zone briefing, agreed in each job's RAMS and used on its job records. It follows the trade's exclusion-zone practice but is not a substitute for the site-specific RAMS, and never a certificate of anyone else's safety arrangements.
What's real on this demo
Basis: validated tenant truth manifest
Every enabled screen here runs on the real shared platform against this demo's own database. Some capabilities are deliberately held back, and this is exactly which.
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- LiveBusiness overviewBusiness overview runs against this business's real data.
- LiveEnquiriesEnquiries runs against this business's real data.
- DemonstrationSite boardThe site board is real machinery on a fictional yard — jobs, surveys and approvals genuinely move through the same states a real contract would, but Stackworth does not exist, nothing is charged, and no real structure is being demolished.
- LiveWalk-rounds & surveysWalk-rounds & surveys runs against this business's real data.
- LiveClientsClients runs against this business's real data.
- LiveContract performanceContract performance runs against this business's real data.
- LiveWebsiteWebsite runs against this business's real data.
- PlannedCustomer conversationsCustomer conversations is on the roadmap for this business.
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