Definition for demolish

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Author Message Dan Mayer Junior Member Username: danmayer175 Post Number: 2 Registered: 02-2025 Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2025 - 08:30 am:    Division 02 sections define remove, remove and salvage and other terms, but is there an agreed upon definition for DEMOLISH? Our standards committee is updating drawing notes and asked me for the "official" definition. John Bunzick Senior Member Username: bunzick Post Number: 1947 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2025 - 04:52 pm:    Unless you define Demolition in your specs, then no. I think you are better off using the definitions in the Selective Demolition (or other) section, and working to make sure that the design team uses them correctly. The reason that such definitions came to be is to give more precision as to what is intended with each item. Having said that, I did work for a firm that included a definition for Demolish in the Selective Demolition section: "Completely remove and legally dispose of off-site." I think this was the fail safe in case the other terms weren't used correctly. We also had: "Remove and Reinstall: Detach items from existing construction, prepare them for reuse, and reinstall them where indicated." Steven Bruneel, Retired Architect Senior Member Username: redseca2 Post Number: 739 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2025 - 06:36 pm:    It is so long ago, 35+ years, that I can barely recall the details, but I remember when the legal folk at a very large architecture firm (the three blind mies) I worked at suddenly announced we had to remove "demolish" from all specs and drawings. this was for a large restoration project and we were by that point wrapping up the construction documents. Several days writing "selective removal" ensued. J. Peter Jordan Senior Member Username: jpjordan Post Number: 1195 Registered: 05-2004 Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2025 - 11:11 am:    There is also "Remove and install new" to distinguish between removing something that you want reinstalled and removing something to be replaced with something new. J. Peter Jordan, FCSI, AIA, CCS, LEED AP, SCIP Dan Mayer Member Username: danmayer175 Post Number: 3 Registered: 02-2025 Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2025 - 11:27 am:    I ended up adding "demolish" to the Div 02 Sections and giving it the same definition as "remove".