ACECO is a fourth-generation family-owned business providing excellent customer service and offering unmatched quality in demolition and hazardous material abatement services. As award-winning members of multiple contracting associations, you can find our projects all around the Mid-Atlantic region. Interested in our services? Read on to learn more about the services we can offer you.
We pride ourselves in the safest, most comprehensive, well-planned, and sequenced state-of-the-art demolition approaches and methods. We also work to recycle over 95% of the materials resulting from our work. A highly-trained and professional staff with the best available and most efficient equipment makes all the difference in how variables are controlled on the worksite.
ACECO can provide the most comprehensive solutions for façade removal and retention. Some projects require the complete removal of an existing exterior building façade to allow a new more energy-efficient and aesthetically pleasing appearance. Other buildings may need to have their façades or portions of structures carefully preserved and protected. Preserving and protecting the surrounding properties and even parts of historical or aesthetic structures is often a requirement of a proposal. Frequently these projects require complex, highly-engineered structural support measures to keep the building components intact and safely in place until the permanent structures are in place. Working with trusted shoring and bracing partners, we can design and install virtually anything necessary to maintain and preserve your structure.
Our crews are trained to respond to a multitude of emergencies. These can range from emergency remediation and collapse or fire response, to rapid deployment of heavy equipment and/or manpower to perform dismantling associated with active incident investigations. Our teams are trained to isolate and mitigate immediate hazards and return a site to a safe condition.
ACECO can also provide for the removal and proper disposal of hazardous and regulated materials. Whether the process is a precursor to allowing follow-on demolition or just a stand-alone removal, we take extreme care to meet all regulations, documentation, and licensing requirements to ensure the job is done safely, quickly, and up to the highest standards. These services include the following:
Many of our services can be combined or offered on a stand-alone basis. Find out what approach will work best for you by contacting ACECO today for more information.
What does a demolition contractor have in common with an environmentalist? Sounds like the set-up for a joke, right? However, they have more in common than you might imagine, especially if that demolition contractor is ACECO, LLC.
For starters, we all want to ensure that we cause as little environmental harm as possible in all of our operations. Wherever possible, we create a positive impact by encouraging and enabling re-use, re-purposing, and recycling.
When we are first awarded a project, we determine if there are any architectural or historical components that can or should be preserved or maintained. We then follow a series of steps to determine the best course of action to demolish or strip out the structure, whether that be by hand, by BROKK Robotic Demolition Tool(s), or by large demolition excavators and/or cranes. Next, we analyze the LEED goals of the project to ensure we can meet the minimum expectations and then strive to achieve maximum expectations, or better.
At ACECO, we carefully segregate recyclable materials throughout the demolition process. This allows for cleaner separation, resulting in less wasted material. We want to make sure that anything of historical significance or any item that may help others is put in the right hands. Diligence and order from start to finish allow us to do just that.
Metal wall studs, ceiling grid, mechanical ductwork, piping, wiring, heating and cooling systems, furnaces and boilers, and just about any and all metal components are segregated and sent away for recycling or, in some cases, re-use intact overseas.
Some landfills segregate and process drywall and gypsum products to create what is known as daily cover. This soil material is spread throughout the landfill to prevent dust and tighten surfaces.
Concrete, brick, CMU/masonry, and ceramics are fully segregated and sent to aggregate producers for recycling/crushing/re-use as rubble fill materials. In many cases, we use our own on-site crushing units to process these materials into sizes and types of recycled products that the owner or GC wishes to re-incorporate into that very project. These uses include sub-grade fill, compacted roadway surfaces, drainage and erosion control, or truck entrances.
We control noise and dust to the extreme on all of our projects. Our ideal project is completed in a relatively dust-free state using fine water mist, air filtration, and vacuum recovery units for dusty operations. We often use noise suppression barriers or blankets to reduce ambient noise. We also frequently make use of crushing and processing jaws on our large demolition excavators in place of noisy and dust-prone hoe-ram hammers.
Finally, we are constantly upgrading and updating our equipment fleet to utilize newer and cleaner running engine technology. Almost all of our equipment is either electric/hydraulic or Tier-4 level emission classified. This means much less air pollution, greenhouse gasses, and smelly diesel fumes. And when we leave a site, it is most often seeded, strawed, and stabilized to prevent runoff and provide at least temporarily a green grass surface to await the next steps in the use of the property.
Whether your project involves architectural demolition, interior structural demolition, complete building razing, or other undertakings, ACECO is ready to discuss your needs and carry out your project in a safe, environmentally friendly way. Contact us today to get started!
