Restoration Environmental Contractors/REC Demolition, Gormley, Ontario, Canada, celebrated its 20th anniversary at the end of 2009.
Established in 1989, the company says it has completed more than 9,000 environmental restoration and demolition projects in Canada involving demolition, asbestos removal, lead abatement, industrial plant cleaning, plant decommissioning and closures, site remediation, disaster recovery and emergency response in the industrial, commercial, governmental and institutional sectors.
In a news release, the company says it has recently completed two LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) projects. REC says it reached a 94.7 recycling or landfill diversion rate in the Regent Park environmental remediation and demolition project in Toronto. REC also says it achieved a landfill diversion rate of more than 75 percent at the Queen’s University, Jock Harty demolition project in Kingston, Ontario.
Another recent project REC undertook involved asbestos removal, demolition and remediation at the 7-story historic Guild Inn project in Toronto. The company says it used its Caterpillar demolition excavator fleet with the addition of a new Caterpillar 330D Ultra High-Reach Demolition excavator and a new Caterpillar shear.
REC cites its “commitment to environmental stewardship, the high level of productivity of [its] skilled unionized workforce and the three ‘r’s—reduce, re-use and recycle,” as core to the company’s green philosophy and market strategy.
More information on REC Demolition and its affiliated companies can be found on its Web site at www.recdemolition.com.