A dated record anybody can open
What the site looked like on the day, from a link, without a hard hat or a gate pass.
The problem
Nobody can say how far it has got without walking it.
A building being taken apart changes every week, and the structure is the one place nobody wants to send somebody to look. So progress is reported in words, volumes are priced off a guess, and the disagreement turns up later attached to an invoice.
How far has the strip-out actually gotis a question answered from the ground, by eye, by whoever was last on site.
How much is sitting up theredecides haulage and disposal, and it is usually a number somebody arrived at by looking at it.
Proving any of it to somebody who was not theremeans a site visit for a lender, an insurer or a client, or them taking your word for it.
What it changes
What it changes.
A volume with a range on it, not an argument
The debris on the podium has a figure and a spread. You can price against the spread instead of against somebody’s impression.
The same site at two dates, side by side
March against June, in the same view. Change you can see rather than change described to you.
It sits where it really is
The record carries real coordinates, so it lines up with everything else you already hold about the site rather than living on its own.
The readings
What was measured.
Every figure on this page says what kind of figure it is. That is the whole of why it can be used.
63 mmain tower, ground to roofMeasured, to about three per cent.
39 mstrip-out line, as at 12 June 2024Measured, to about three per cent. Bare frame below it, cladding still on above.
684 m³debris on the podium roofMeasured on the 12 June 2024 record, with a range of 427 to 975 m³. Use the range.
48.5 × 19.5 mthe slabMeasured.
Read and checked
What was read, and checked.
These are not measurements and they are not presented as any. Software read one photograph from each visit and a person checked every reading against the photograph it came from.
8visits, 19 March to 13 September 2024Read from one photograph per visit and checked by a person. Only the 12 June visit was measured in 3D.
Guides only
And what is only a guide.
Every figure below is an estimate for an engineer to confirm. None of it was weighed, counted or measured, and none of it should be priced against without someone checking it.
22 to 24storeysEstimate.
20,800 to 22,700 m²floor areaEstimate.
12,000 to 19,000 tconcrete to removeEstimate. Nothing here was weighed.
600 to 950truckloadsEstimate, from the figure above.
What changed between visits
4 things watched across 8 visits, on one scale.
The same four conditions, graded the same way on every visit, plus the stripping itself so the job going to plan sits beside the things that were not. 32 dated readings in all, 32 of them checked by a person before anybody saw them.
| What was watched | 19 Mar | 12 Jun | 24 Jun | 02 Jul | 19 Jul | 07 Aug | 03 Sep | 13 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loose material hanging from the exposed slab edgesdamage | – | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Chipped and broken concrete along the slab edgesbroken concrete | · | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Rubble on the low roof beside the towerdebris | – | 3 | · | 3 | – | 4 | 4 | – |
| Broken cladding on the remaining white wall panelsdamage | · | · | · | 3 | · | · | 3 | · |
| Planned works: cladding stripped from the towerplanned works | – | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
- 1, slight
- 2, moderate
- 3, heavy
- 4, severe
- a dash: observed and not graded, such as not there yet or already gone
Read from close crops of Airweb's drone photos of each visit and graded on one scale across dates. AI drafts, checked by a person on 9 November 2026. The photos are wide shots, so cracks, rust and staining could not be read reliably and are not listed.
The same place, two dates
Loose material hanging from the exposed slab edges, at its worst and at its best.
Both crops come from the drone photographs of those two visits. Nothing is redrawn.
Honestly
What this is not.
The spread on the debris is the honest part
About 684 cubic metres, and anywhere between 427 and 975. That is a wide range and it is published wide on purpose. Taking the middle of it as the answer is the mistake this page exists to stop.
The visit history is read, not measured
Software read one photograph per visit and a person checked every one. Only 12 June was measured in 3D. Treat the rest as a timeline, not as a survey.
The tonnages are guides for an engineer
Weights and loads are estimated from volume. Nobody weighed anything, and a demolition contractor should price from their own numbers.
No saving is claimed, because none was measured
There is no figure here for site visits avoided or days saved. Nobody measured one, so there is nothing to put.
Where a surveyed figure exists, it wins
These are good enough to see with, compare with and plan with. They are not good enough to settle anything.
Captured by Airweb’s drone pilot network. The flying is theirs and the reading is ours. Their logo is their own, shown on a dark panel of ours so it is legible here.
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