“It chews concrete,” says Andy Lyons whose company, North Concrete, owns this machine.
It is deployed today on the demolition of the old Commonwealth Bank Building, in Parsons Street, the location tipped to for the two new Supreme Courts in Alice Springs.
My Lyons says the machine turns old concrete from something that’s difficult and expensive to dispose of, into material that can be sold, after removing the structural steel inside, which also get chopped up in the process, for uses including underfloor, drainage rock and road base.
The equipment, including ancillary gear, is worth $160,000.