demolition

Preposition: of

• building: Separate consent may be required for whole or partial demolition of building.
• dwelling: The development at Longacre requires two further Planning Applications, due to the demolition of the original dwelling.
• garage: January 2004 Work on the extension was due to start in mid February with the demolition of the garage.

Converse of object

• necessitate: This would necessitate the demolition of Leadon Bank at the outset and the decant of residents and staff offsite.
• await: The picture was dated 1934 as the works stood idle awaiting demolition.
• entail: The council understands and accepts that this strategy will entail the demolition of Dee House.
• involve: This would have involved the demolition of all buildings on the site.
• propose: Building Control will also notify other public bodies of the proposed demolition.
• resist: Thoughts from the people resisting the demolition in the roof of Dalston Lane theater.

Adjective modifier

• partial: Separate consent may be required for whole or partial demolition of building.
• controlled: You just don't get this with a conventional controlled demolition?
• eventual: Along with the scheme for completing the Sidgwick Site, these proposals involve the eventual demolition of most of the remaining villas.
• wholesale: There were plans for wholesale demolition of the terraced streets built in the nineteenth century.
• selective: The vast majority of flats are in poor condition and the consultants recommend that selective demolition should be considered.
• imminent: Tony Keen on the 3 Feb London pub meeting: ` The Florence Nightingale was closed tonight, due to imminent demolition.

Modifies a noun

• rubble: The demolition rubble from the walls could be used to fill the deeper sections to try to bring the floor up level.
• contractor: In 1958, due to the added reinforcement, the demolition contractors took five days to demolish the spire.
• debris: The dumps of demolition debris principally comprise limestone rubble, but also some tile, op sig and mortar.
• waste: QA large quantity of demolition waste had also been tipped in an area to the far west of the site.
• squad: Rows of wrecked houses awaiting the demolition squad back onto a lumpy green wasteland.