Independence Excavating Teams with Precision Environmental to Make Way for New Cuyahoga County Headquarters

At the blast of an air horn on April 9, Independence Excavating’s demolition crews started to take a bite out of the former Ameritrust Complex in order to make way for a new Cuyahoga County Headquarters building that is scheduled to open its doors in July 2014. Known as the Prospect and Huron, or P & H buildings, Independence Excavating is proud to team up with its sister company, Precision Environmental, and the project Owner, Geis Companies, to complete yet another high profile, turn-key demolition and abatement project in downtown Cleveland.

Precision has now completed the abatement work, and the new construction is scheduled to begin immediately following the demolition completion date of July 3, 2013. This project has a very tight schedule on an even tighter footprint. The five- and six-story joint building complex is approximately 185,000 SF and is expected to produce approximately 12,000 CY of debris that will be required to be hauled off site. All debris will be sent to Kurtz Brothers LEED certified landfill to maintain the highest possible recycling percentage as a green initiative effort that will continue throughout the new construction. In addition to the primary demolition, Independence Excavating will be working with Precision Environmental and Geis Companies to complete the required mass backfill, and potentially some additional shoring in preparation for the new building's foundation installation work.