Dismantling is the most material-intensive activity in heavy industry — and the single largest recovery opportunity in it. We treat that opportunity as an engineering discipline, not as a reporting exercise.
- Diversion from landfill
- 94% average
- Material recovered
- 412,000 tonnes
- Downstream verification
- 100% licence-checked
- Certification
- ISO 14001:2015
Dismantling is the most material-intensive activity in heavy industry — and the single largest opportunity in it. A retired plant is not waste. It is several thousand tonnes of steel, alloy, copper and aggregate that already exists, already carries its embodied carbon, and needs only to be separated properly to re-enter the economy.
The industry default destroys most of that value in the first hour of handling. Mixed arisings cannot be un-mixed economically; alloy separated downstream is separated at a fraction of its worth; a serviceable pump treated as tonnage is a machine that someone now has to manufacture again.
DDMS Global treats recovery as an engineering discipline with the same rigour we apply to load paths. Reuse candidates are identified at survey, before the commercial structure is even agreed. Grade separation happens at the work front, briefed to crews as a task requirement. Concrete is crushed on site to a certified aggregate where the redevelopment can use it, removing both haulage and imported fill from the equation.
The result is a 94% average diversion rate from landfill, verifiable against weighbridge records rather than asserted in a report — and a materially lower carbon outcome than the demolish-and-replace path, because the lowest-carbon tonne of steel is the tonne that never has to be made again.
0%
Average diversion from landfill across all programmes — reconcilable to weighbridge tickets and transfer notes rather than estimated from container counts.
Representative distribution across recent programmes. Actual profile varies by asset type and is reported per project against weighbridge records.
Each one describes something that happens at the work front on a live site — which is the only place a diversion rate is actually created.
340 t
refractory recovered for direct client reuse on one programme
Reuse before recycling
Assets and structural sections with genuine second-life value are identified at survey and preserved through dismantling rather than defaulted into the melt stream. Reuse retains embodied carbon that recycling releases.
94%
average diversion from landfill across all programmes
Segregation at source
Ferrous, non-ferrous, alloy grades, cable and non-recoverable streams are separated at the work front into designated containment. Once mixed, recovery value does not come back at any price.
~190
haulage movements removed on a single clearance project
On-site material loops
Concrete arisings crushed and screened on site to certified graded aggregate for piling mats, haul roads and backfill — eliminating both outbound haulage and imported fill.
100%
of consignments to licence-verified outlets
Verified downstream routing
Material is consigned only to facilities whose permits we have checked and recorded. Chain of custody is documented from work front to receiving gate.
~70%
reduction in hot-work permits on a refinery programme
Emissions in method selection
Cold mechanical cutting over thermal, on-site processing over haulage, electric plant where site power supports it — carbon is treated as a method-selection input, not a reporting output.
42,000 m²
returned redevelopment-ready in a single twelve-week programme
Land returned to use
Remediated, validated and surveyed brownfield land handed back for redevelopment reduces pressure on greenfield sites — the largest environmental benefit our sector delivers.
Survey & identify
Reuse candidates and grade profile established before dismantling method is fixed.
Segregate at source
Streams separated at the work front into designated containment with supervisor verification.
Grade & consolidate
Material graded, cut to transport length and staged in segregated dispatch bays.
Weigh & document
Every load weighed, ticketed and issued a transfer note naming the receiving facility.
Verified routing
Consignment only to facilities whose permits are checked and recorded per movement.
Thresholds are agreed with the people affected by them — plant operators, neighbouring stakeholders, regulators — rather than imposed by either side, and monitored against agreed limits throughout.
Dust
Atomised suppression matched to particulate size, wheel washing on egress and continuous boundary particulate monitoring against agreed limits.
Noise
Measurement at sensitive receptors, method selection weighted toward lower-noise mechanical processing and working-hour restriction where required.
Vibration
Continuous monitoring where adjacent structures or energised equipment demand it, with defined stop criteria rather than advisory limits.
Water
Bunding, spill containment, runoff collection and treatment before discharge, with sampling records forming part of the close-out pack.
Need diversion data your auditors will accept?
We issue weighbridge-reconciled recovery statements tying tonnage to grade to named licensed destination — with the underlying documents attached.