Capital Demolition and Environmental Services Ltd. of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, has submitted the lowest and winning bid to demolish a hospital in Truro, Nova Scotia.
The company’s CA$2.2 million ($ million) bid to demolish the former Colchester Regional Hospital was about CA$200,000 less than the next lowest bid and much lower than the two highest of the seven bids: CA$6.8 million by Montreal-based Delsan-Aim Environmental Services (a division of scrap recycling firm American Iron & Metal) and CA$4.2 million by Asbestos Abatement Ltd., according to a news report on Saltwire.com.
Demolition of the hospital, parts of which were built in the 1920s and others in the 1960s, is expected to begin later this month, according to the news report.
The project as bid includes abatement of all regulated materials, such as asbestos, and the disposition of any mechanical systems or equipment.
Capital Demolition indicates it expects to complete the project in the spring of 2021.
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