Property Week .com 29.08.08 reported that the construction industry could be facing huge costs to remove a commonly used substance when demolishing buildings after experts warned it was as hazardous as asbestos.
CA Group, a UK industrial buildings manufacturer, said foam insulation ‘sandwich panels’ that are used in many buildings posed an environmental hazard risk and a pollution threat to the water table, and their removal would financially hit the property industry.
Brian Watson, commercial director at CA Group, said the project removal costs would affect funders, owners, manufacturers, specifiers and demolition contractors because the removal would be ‘massive and expensive’.
However, it is unclear who would be required to pay the clean-up costs. Watson said foam panels could no longer be disposed through crushing or burning but must conform to the same costly recycling regulations as refrigerators.
CA Group estimates that removal costs range between £1/sq ft to nearly £3/sq ft and, ‘when multiplied by the quantities of foam that hides in roofs and walls nationwide, runs into the billions’.
http://www.propertyweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=274&storycode=3121081&c=3
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