A photo record from eight years of SES asbestos jobs - the enclosures, airlocks, decontamination units, negative air, signage, air monitoring and waste wrapping that go up before any asbestos is touched.
Every licensed asbestos removal SES runs is built on the same controls, whether it is a bathroom in a house, a plant room, a warehouse or an office floor: a sealed enclosure under negative pressure, HEPA filtration, a decontamination unit with an airlock and bag lock, control plan and signage at the entry, and air monitoring inside and out.
These photos come from commercial, industrial and residential jobs between 2018 and 2023. They are the parts of the job clients rarely see once the sheeting goes up - and the reason the clearance certificate at the end means something.
Project scope:
Licensed asbestos removal, demolition and specialist cleaning across Auckland and the North Island - one crew, one contract, one clearance.
A sealed negative-pressure enclosure built inside a working office for Class A removal - differential pressure logged, air monitoring pumps running and an independent assessor on site throughout.
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A large moss-covered asbestos-cement ventilation hood on the side of a commercial building, dismantled piece by piece inside a scaffold-wrap enclosure and the ground reinstated.
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A first-floor office stripped back to the shell - linings, ceilings and partitions out, asbestos removed under controls and the floor handed back swept and ready for fit-out.
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Asbestos-contaminated dust cleaned from the ceiling void, structural steel and ductwork of a commercial building, with the floor below sheeted and sealed so the tenant could keep trading.
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Poly-sheeted enclosure tunnel, three-stage decontamination unit, airlock and fire station set up inside a commercial building for friable asbestos removal.
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Friable pipe lagging removed from live plant room pipework inside a sheeted enclosure, with wet spray suppression, a decontamination unit and bag lock at the entry.
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Asbestos-contaminated plant craned whole into a lined and wrapped skip bin inside a taped exclusion zone in an industrial yard - no dismantling on site.
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Branded SES hoarding around a commercial building, a decontamination unit outside and sealed black-poly doorways inside so the removal ran without disrupting the rest of the site.
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Negative air units, HEPA filtration and a decontamination unit set up inside a stripped office floor so the fit-out contractor could start on a clean, cleared shell.
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Enclosures built on the warehouse floor and mezzanine with decontamination units at each entry, so the asbestos could come out in stages while the warehouse kept operating.
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Roof off and the house taken down frame by frame by hand, with timber sorted for salvage rather than crushed by machine.
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Asbestos removed from the equipment aisles of a live telecommunications exchange - working from scaffold between racks that could not be switched off.
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Asbestos-contaminated dust cleaned from a commercial ceiling void, its ducts and the air-handling plant deck, with the crew in full PPE and respirators above a working building.
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Asbestos roof sheets craned off a commercial building from a work platform inside a fenced exclusion zone, with the client’s car park kept open throughout.
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One of our combined asbestos and demolition projects getting ready to start: scaffolding up, security fence up, then cladding stripped and the house taken down by the same crew.
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Block walls, retaining walls and the old house taken down by excavator and the site cleared to make way for the client’s new sub-division.
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Another project completed on time: asbestos removed, house demolished and the section handed back ready for the client to start building their new home.
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A negative-pressure enclosure built along an office corridor for Class A removal of asbestos insulation board, with decontamination unit, airlock and air monitoring throughout.
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Next project under way for our client: a two-storey weatherboard home scaffolded, asbestos cladding removed under controls, then demolished and the section cleared.
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