In 2008, East Midlands Demolition’s Clipstone Colliery demolition and site restoration project received an award from The Coal Authority, for outstanding personal contribution to the environment. That legacy continues today, with the site still accepting incoming inert waste to the tune of half a million cubic metres — inert waste that would otherwise have been headed for the nearest landfill.
The original Clipstone Colliery demolition project salvaged an astonishing 96% of all materials turned up during work. As well as conducting a safe and environmentally conscious demolition of a huge site, which presented asbestos and slurry as well as the normal structural materials (copper; concrete; steel; iron), East Midlands Demolition then prepared the ground for future use, using infilling and levelling techniques to restore the Colliery site to its original tillable field condition.
Even the slurry from the site's old slurry ponds was carefully salvaged: coal dust that was dredged up from the three lagoons and mixed with import coal to fuel Ferrybridge Power Plant. The practice is typical of East Midlands Demolition, which aims never to leave a usable piece of material behind — unless of course it is going to be used by building contractors undertaking a new project on the same site.
The levelling and restoration of the Clipstone Colliery site is made as environmentally friendly as possible by using ex coal inert waste, initially from the Colliery itself, to provide suitable foundation and filler material. The twin shafts at Clipstone (the two newest sunk) alone require an astonishing amount of material to fill their 920–metre–deep holes.
Overall the site and its continued acceptance of inert waste are still more evidence that East Midlands Demolition offers a product that exceeds expectation at every turn. The attention to detail and the continued aftercare that EMD puts into every job is exemplified by its commitment to the Clipstone Colliery Site: and by the continued expansion of East Midlands Demolition itself, whose investment in new machinery and premises is made possible by an ever growing list of high profile clients. The company's track record in delivering large projects will be judged by the success of its Clipstone Colliery demolition project. That judgment is likely to recommend it highly to any East Midlands property holder looking to contract a major dismantling.
