Key Asbestos Removal Information

• Location: Manchester
• Client: Jigsaw Housing
• ACM: Various
• Duration:11 months

✔️ Over 100 tenanted flats
✔️ Comprehensive ACM removal
✔️ Bespoke security controls
✔️ Community Liaison
✔️ Heightened residential protection
✔️176 Licensed removal enclosures

Over the course of six months, our team transformed a complex, high-risk operation into a model of best practice in community-focused asbestos management.

The Project

Under our contract with respected local community housing provider, Jigsaw Housing, Shield Services Group’s Warrington Asbestos Removal Branch were engaged to removal all identified and suspect ACMs from a collection of residential blocks in a district of Manchester to protect the health of residents and future-proof this portfolio of properties that serve the local community. Due to our proven reliability with our client over previous projects and the dedication of our in-house expertise, Shield were awarded this project not simply on price, but our ability to protect residents and public health.

The project at Keeley close required the safe removal and disposal of all notifiable and non-notifiable ACMs within the 9 blocks for more than 108 residential flats. Identified ACMS, including Asbestos insulating board, were removed under controlled conditions across 176 enclosures from all bathrooms, cupboards and kitchens of lived-in properties, meaning that minimising impact to the homes of residents was critical to the success of the project.

Properties such as these where, discreet and widespread asbestos containing materials are located throughout residential properties, residential health risks are coupled with increased costs and down-time for everyday tasks and routine maintenance. We’re proud to have enacted the vision of our client’s health initiative in the homes they support across the region and protect their residents from the potential harms of accidental asbestos exposure

One of the greatest challenges in occupied residential settings is maintaining access while respecting residents’ lives. Early in the planning phase, we established a strong relationship with community liaison teams to ensure we maintained a human and sympathetic presence throughout the project.

Value for money was a continuous commitment across the project’s duration. To support short-term cost control, we developed a bespoke property access programme in co-ordination with our community partners to ensure the safe decanting of residents and vulnerable persons whilst we engaged in the removal of hazardous materials in their homes.

Shield’s services dramatically improved the safety profile of these homes and our diligence minimised unnecessary expenditure associated with cancellations and unplanned project variations in order toprotect our client’s expenditure and allow it to unlock additional value within the communities where it belongs.

Shield are proud to have delivered a carefully orchestrated effort to safeguard residents, protect workers and deliver long-term value for a client that serves so many in the community.