REBAR
Structural demolition · Engineer-led · Bonded to $75M

Rebar is a structural demolition and site-clearance contractor. High-reach, controlled implosion, selective deconstruction, and full remediation — drawn to the millimetre, dropped inside a sealed exclusion zone, and handed back as clean, certified, build-ready ground.

  • Engineer-stamped demolition plan on every job
  • 94% of debris diverted from landfill
  • Six years, zero lost-time incidents
Overview
Live
$2.4M
Volume
+18.2%
Growth
99.99%
Uptime

Brought in by the developers, GCs, and public-works owners who can't afford a surprise on the day.

Halcyon DevelopmentsGranite & Ward BuildersNorthline InfrastructurePort Authority WorksIronclad Asset GroupCrossfield Capital PartnersHalcyon DevelopmentsGranite & Ward BuildersNorthline InfrastructurePort Authority WorksIronclad Asset GroupCrossfield Capital Partners

Two decades of bringing structures down on purpose.

1,900+
Structures demolished
94%
Debris diverted from landfill
0.58
EMR safety rating
6 yrs
Without a lost-time incident
What we tear down

If it has to come down,we have a method for it.

From a 22-storey core in a live downtown block to a contaminated mill that has to be taken apart by hand — every structure gets the technique it demands, not the one that's cheapest to mobilise.

High-reach demolition

Long-reach excavators with shears, pulverisers, and grapples take towers down floor by floor, top to bottom. No structure is too tall to dismantle in a controlled descent that keeps the debris field inside the line we drew.

Implosion & controlled blasting

Licensed blasters drop a structure into its own footprint in seconds — pre-weakening plan, drilled charge pattern, and seismic monitoring on every neighbour. The right call when there's no room to take it down a piece at a time.

Selective deconstruction

Surgical removal of a floor, a wing, or a single bay while the rest of the building stays occupied and standing. Shoring, temporary works, and saw-cutting take out exactly what the drawings call for — and nothing the drawings don't.

Interior strip-out

Soft-strip down to bare structure for renovation and fit-out. We pull finishes, MEP, ceilings, and partitions clean, sort them for recovery, and hand back a shell the next trade can start on Monday.

Hazmat & abatement

Certified containment and removal of asbestos, lead paint, and contaminated material, with air monitoring and manifest-tracked disposal. The hazard leaves the site before the structure does.

Site clearance & grading

Foundations out, slab broken, debris crushed and screened, ground compacted and graded to spec. We don't leave when the building's gone — we leave when the lot is build-ready.

The method

Nothing comes downuntil the plan is stamped.

A teardown that looks effortless on the day took six weeks of engineering before a single machine moved. We run every job back-to-front: reverse-engineer how it stands, then unbuild it in the exact order it went up.

Structural survey first

Before we quote, a structural engineer walks the building, maps the load paths, and flags what's holding up what. The teardown sequence is reverse-engineered from how the thing was built to stand.

Stamped demolition plan

You get a sequenced, engineer-stamped plan: method statement, exclusion zones, temporary works, and a collapse model. Every floor's removal is drawn before the first one comes off.

Dust, noise & vibration control

Atomised water cannons, real-time dust and decibel monitors, and seismographs on the neighbours. We keep the work inside the fence — the street outside shouldn't know we're there.

Documented to a clean lot

Daily progress photos, a live exclusion-zone log, and a closeout package with disposal manifests and recovery tonnages. You can prove where every load went.

The numbers we report on every closeout.

1.5×
Exclusion radius vs. structure height
71 days
22-storey tower to a clean pad
<5 mm/s
Peak vibration held at the property line
100%
Loads tracked by disposal manifest
Selected teardowns

Structures we removed without removing the neighbours' patience.

Six jobs with no margin for error — live rail, occupied wards, contaminated ground, a one-shot permit window. Every one came down inside its line and handed back clean.

High-reach · 22 storeys · Downtown core

Meridian Tower

A 22-storey office tower taken down top-down between a live commuter rail line and an occupied hotel. Floor-by-floor high-reach with a sealed debris chute and a 1.5× exclusion radius. Pad-ready in 71 working days, zero rail shutdowns.

Implosion · Industrial · 1-shot window

Foundry Stack

A derelict foundry and its 280-foot chimney dropped by controlled implosion at 5 a.m. on a single permitted Sunday. Pre-weakened, charge-patterned, and seismically monitored — it fell into its own footprint with the buildings either side untouched.

Selective deconstruction · Occupied hospital

St. Aubin Wing

A 1960s hospital wing removed while four floors next door stayed live around the clock. Diamond-wire saw cutting, full shoring, and a negative-pressure dust barrier kept operating rooms running through an eight-month surgical teardown.

Hazmat · Marine · Contaminated

Drydock 4

A decommissioned shipyard structure stripped of asbestos and lead under full containment before demolition. Air-monitored, manifest-tracked abatement cleared the hazard, then the steel came down and went straight back to the mill.

Infrastructure · Bridge · Night works

Overpass 17

A failing highway overpass taken out across four overnight closures above a working freeway. Saw-cut spans lifted out by crane, decks broken and hauled before dawn, lanes reopened to traffic every morning by 5 a.m.

Site clearance · Mixed-use · Brownfield

Linden Block

A full city block of low-rise cleared to bare, graded, build-ready ground. Foundations excavated, 11,200 tonnes of concrete crushed and screened on site for reuse as fill, and the lot compacted and certified for the tower that followed.

Owners, GCs & engineers

The people who signed off on the collapse.

They dropped a 22-storey tower between a live rail line and our hotel and we never lost a night of bookings. The exclusion plan was tighter than some buildings I've put up. Rebar made the hard part look routine.

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Dana Whitlock
Managing Partner, Halcyon Developments

We needed one wing gone while the hospital stayed open around it. Eight months, four live floors next door, and not one disruption to the operating rooms. The shoring and dust control were flawless.

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Dr. Elias Ferraro
VP Facilities, St. Aubin Health

I've stamped a lot of demolition plans. Rebar's came back more thorough than the one my own team drafted — load paths, temporary works, collapse model, all of it. I signed it without a single revision.

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Priya Anand
Principal Structural Engineer, Northline Infrastructure

Before you bring a building down.

How close can you demolish to occupied buildings?

Right up against them. Selective deconstruction, saw-cutting, and full shoring let us remove a structure while the building sharing its wall stays occupied. Every job gets an engineered exclusion plan, vibration monitoring on the neighbours, and a method matched to how little room we have.

What happens to all the debris?

Most of it never reaches a landfill. We crush and screen concrete on site for reuse as fill or aggregate, send structural steel back to the mill, and segregate the rest for recovery. On a typical job we divert 94% of material, and you get the disposal manifests and recovery tonnages in the closeout package.

Do you handle asbestos and contaminated material?

Yes. We're a certified abatement contractor. Asbestos, lead paint, and contaminated soil are removed under full containment with air monitoring and manifest-tracked disposal before demolition begins. The hazard is cleared and documented before the structure ever comes down.

How long does a demolition take?

It depends on method, height, and how tight the site is — but we put a sequenced schedule in writing before we mobilise and run a live look-ahead against it. A mid-rise high-reach teardown to a clean pad typically runs eight to twelve weeks; an implosion is over in seconds after weeks of engineering.

Are you licensed, bonded, and insured?

Fully. Licensed demolition and abatement contractor, bonded to $75M, and carrying coverage that satisfies owners and lenders. Our 0.58 EMR sits well below the industry average, and we've gone six years without a lost-time incident.

Bring us the building.We'll hand back a clean lot and a closeout file.

Send the address and the drawings — or just the address. You'll get a structural engineer on site and a stamped demolition plan with a real schedule, not a salesman with a brochure.