Hi friends,
We recently tracked our water consumption on site during the structural demolition of some existing reinforced concrete buildings. The new OSHA silica regulations required us to keep dust to virtually zero, so we had a bunch of mist cannons and water hoses pumping water around the clock. We consumed ~855,000 gallons in a single month......looking at the numbers over the course of 4 months, we arrived at a normalized 2-4 gal/sf of structural demo. Has anyone else looked in this before? Really makes a case for renovating existing buildings and not tearing down structure to build new. Also does anyone know of companies that implement recycled water or catchment systems that might be able to address this problem?
