COMMERCIAL DEMOLITION THAT CLOSES OUT CLEAN. FIXED PRICE. VERIFIED VOLUME.

For the light commercial work we do — single-story retail, shop, office and warehouse — commercial demolition cost runs roughly $6–12 per square foot for the structure, which puts most buildings at $15,000–$75,000 or more. The slab, footings and asphalt are priced separately per square foot; concrete and slab removal is typically $4–8/sf, and asphalt is quoted per square foot after the scan. Haul-off runs $1,000–$3,500 per load or site depending on volume and distance. Those ranges reflect typical Central Texas light-commercial work. The number that matters is the one on your proposal, which is fixed per structure after the RTK scan and before we mobilize.

Light commercial means single-story buildings we can take down with a compact excavator, a hydraulic thumb and a hydraulic hammer: retail and strip buildings, offices, shops, pre-engineered metal buildings and light steel-frame warehouses, on CMU block, steel or wood frame over a slab-on-grade. We do not do high-rise or multi-story structural demolition, plant or heavy industrial demolition, tank removal or environmental remediation. If your project is one of those, we will say so on the first call and point you toward a contractor that does that work.

Not us, and you should be wary of any commercial demolition contractor who says otherwise. Older commercial buildings commonly carry asbestos in floor tile, mastic, roofing, joint compound and pipe insulation, and an asbestos survey is generally required before commercial demolition — your abatement contractor or environmental consultant will confirm exactly what applies to your building and jurisdiction. Abatement must be complete and the clearance on file before we mobilize. If you do not already have an abatement contractor, we can point you to one. We sequence the demolition start around their clearance date.

By measuring it instead of estimating it. The pre-demo RTK scan is a ±0.5 cm baseline of the building, slab and paving. Every week the drone flies again and the volume removed is computed against that baseline and reported in cubic yards, with the load tickets for the same period beside it. The GC, the lender and the owner all get the same report. When the job closes out, the post-demo scan and the full set of weekly reports go into the packet. There is no version of the yardage that lives only on our invoice.

Permit requirements for commercial demolition vary by jurisdiction — city, ETJ and county rules differ, and utility disconnect letters, tree protection and stormwater controls may all apply depending on where the parcel sits. We tell you what applies to your site and handle the demolition permit where we can. Owner-side approvals — platting, site development permits, environmental clearances and utility account closures — stay with the owner or GC. What we will not do is assert a city-specific rule as fact on a web page; we confirm it for your address during the scan visit.

They come out in sequence after the structure is on the ground, and they are priced on their own per-square-foot lines so you can see them. The slab is broken and loaded, or crushed on site when the next use can take the material as base. Footings and grade beams are hammered out with the NPK GH6. Asphalt is peeled and hauled to a recycler, and the base course underneath is recovered and stockpiled for reuse in the pad where it meets spec. The pad is then rough-graded to the target elevation from your civil plans and handed off through site prep and pad prep. If you want the slab left in place for now, say so — we will price it both ways.

The proposal comes back within 48 hours of the scan, and we mobilize within 48 hours of acceptance and abatement clearance. Most single-story light-commercial structures come down in days, not weeks; the slab, footings and paving add days, not weeks, depending on area and thickness. The schedule is stated in the proposal and the weekly verification flights are how we hold ourselves to it — a crew that is measured every week does not drift. If rock shows up under the slab, the scan usually shows it first and it is priced as its own line before we start.

Disconnection at the source — electric, gas, water, wastewater, telecom — is done by the utility on the owner's request, and we do not start until the disconnect letters are in hand. After that we locate, cut and cap the on-site lines at the property line or the point your civil plans call for, and the capped stub-outs are documented on the post-demo scan so the next trade knows exactly where they are. Utility disconnect fees are not included in our price.