Pit & Quarry, June 2013
CRUSHING HISTORY PROJECT Portable crushers are hard at work recycling material from demolition of the historic Navy Annex D emolition Services Inc DSI and Powerscreen are key players in the demolition and recycling of the historic one million sq ft Navy Annex complex to provide for expansion of Arlington National Cemetery The 42 acre site consists of a parking area and seven buildings ranging four to five stories high The Navy Annex was built in 1941 to be a temporary warehouse facility but was converted to federal office use after Pearl Harbor It served as Marine Corps headquarters for more than five decades as well as providing office space for numerous Navy personnel It also was used extensively during the renovation of the nearby Pentagon prior to and shortly after the 9 11 attacks Demolition Services Inc headquartered in Manassas Va specializes in demolition abatement and hazardous materials projects in residential commercial industrial and local state federal government applications The company founded in 2007 offers a total of 45 years of key personnel experience in structural selective marine and implosive demolition as well as field management services site excavation and renovation and site development DSI currently services an area that includes but is not limited to Washington Virginia Maryland North Carolina West Virginia Delaware New Jersey New York and Pennsylvania The Navy Annex is not the biggest or most involved project weve ever done says DSI Owner and President Ron Feather But it is indeed a massive job We have complete responsibility for the total demolition of all the buildings inside and out and disposition of all materials When were gone from here well leave a flat empty site ready for cemetery grounds preparation That and parking lot demolition will be handled by Corinthian Contractors of Arlington Va he says Virtually all annex materials will be recycled Feather stresses Crushed stone metals everything Practically nothing will go to landfills A tracked Powerscreen XR400S primary jaw plant and a tracked Powerscreen XH320SR horizontal impact crusher plant are the key components of the recycling operation The crushers are producing 21A road base also called RC6 Well use a little of it ourselves for various backfilling applications on other projects in the area All the rest is being sold to contractors BY CARL EMIGH The Powerscreen XR400S primary jaw plant right produces 5 in minus material to feed to the Powerscreen XH320SR impactor plant This increases production efficiency and doubles blow bar life 16 PIT QUARRY June 2013 www pitandquarry com
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