Busway Removal: What to Expect

Before the day: the walkthrough

Every job starts with understanding the run, either in person or from your photographs. We are looking at height, what sits underneath, how the duct is supported, where the run terminates at both ends, and the route from there to a place a truck can park. Those five things determine the plan and the crew size.

This is also when the schedule gets set. If a demolition contractor is working to a date, if production only stops on certain days, or if a lease is expiring, that constraint drives the sequence and we build around it rather than asking you to work around us.

Isolation and safety

Nothing comes down live. De-energisation and lockout is arranged with your electrician, your facilities group or ours depending on how your site handles contractor work, and verified before any tools come out. Where a site requires contractor orientation, badging or a permit, we complete it as part of the job.

Our people work to the same site rules as your other contractors. If your facility requires specific PPE, a hot work permit for any cutting, or an escort in certain areas, tell us at the walkthrough and it gets built into the plan.

Plugs first, then the duct

Plug-in units come off first. They are the highest-value items per pound and the easiest to damage, so they get handled individually, set down properly and crated or palletised rather than stacked loose.

The duct then comes off the hangers in the longest sections the building will allow us to carry out. Length is worth real money here, so the sequence is chosen to preserve continuous runs and keep the joint hardware with them rather than to be fast.

Crating, loading and freight

Everything is packaged on site by our crew: crates or pallets, wrapped and banded, loaded onto our own truck. You do not supply a forklift, a dock worker, packaging materials or a carrier, and you are not billed for any of it.

Cleanup of what we touched is part of the job. Hangers and hardware we removed leave with us rather than becoming your disposal problem.

What we need from you

Site access, a point of contact who can make decisions, and whatever your facility requires from a contractor. That is the entire list.

What we specifically do not need: labor, equipment, crating, sorting, cleaning, testing, certification, or any statement from you about whether the equipment works.

Payment timing

The money changes hands before the equipment leaves the property. Not on resale, not net thirty, not on delivery to our yard.