We handle demolition in Santa Clara, from the Old Quad out to Rivermark. Most of the city went up after the orchards came out. The median Santa Clara home was built in 1974.
Riverbank Environmental & Demolition has been a family company since 1967. We hold CSLB #247684 and CAL OSHA #507. We handle asbestos removal and abatement, interior demolition, concrete demolition, and residential demolition. Every demolition permit in the city goes through the City of Santa Clara Building Division.
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The Building Division wants utilities cut and verified before it issues a demolition permit. Gas gets disconnected through PG&E, and they want written proof. Santa Clara owns its electric and water service through Silicon Valley Power. Those shutoffs go through the City.
Sewer lines have to be capped within five feet of the property line. That takes a plumbing sewer cap permit and a final inspection first. Planning may also review the property for historic significance. Santa Clara keeps a Historic Resources Inventory, and listed properties get extra review.
Mid-century ranch homes built between 1950 and 1970 fill central Santa Clara. Forest Park went up in the early 1960s in the 95051 area. Some owners remodel or expand these houses, and some go with residential demolition. Either way, the asbestos question comes first.
Old floor tile, mastic, popcorn ceilings, and duct wrap all held asbestos back then. The Air District requires a survey by a DOSH registered Certified Asbestos Consultant first. Asbestos abatement before a Santa Clara remodel is a large part of our work. Interior demolition follows once the material is out.
El Camino Real runs 3.2 miles through Santa Clara as the city's main commercial corridor. Most of it is strip malls built around big surface parking lots. The City's El Camino Real Specific Plan aims to replace them with housing over shops. Those projects start with demolition.
Scott Boulevard and Lafayette Street hold older light industrial buildings and R&D space. Sites like 3200 Scott Boulevard are still zoned light industrial. Houses and two to three story commercial buildings are our sweet spot for commercial building demolition in Santa Clara. Concrete demolition on slabs and loading docks comes with that work.
Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and Applied Materials all have campuses in Santa Clara. Intel's is at 2200 Mission College Boulevard. Office and lab space around those campuses turns over between tenants. Interior demolition strips a suite back to the shell.
Flooring removal and surface preparation follows in a lot of those buildings. We run UHP water blasting at 40,000 psi to take coatings and adhesive off concrete. That leaves a clean slab for the next floor system. We also do fire damage cleanup and land and site clearing around Santa Clara.
Santa Clara shares a long border with San Jose. Our demolition work next door in San Jose runs the same way. Each city has its own building department, so we pull the permit where the job sits.
Santa Clara has cleared large sites before. In 1961 the city council voted to demolish an eight block grid downtown. The area sat between Benton, Lafayette, Madison, and Homestead. Only the two block Franklin Mall was built to replace it.
Communities & areas we serve around Santa Clara: Old Quad, Rivermark, Forest Park, Killarney Farms, Laurel Park, Westwood Oaks, Bowers Crest, Woodsborough.
Santa Clara ZIP codes served: 95050, 95051, 95053, 95054.
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We handle asbestos removal and abatement for homes and commercial buildings across Northern California. Work runs under sealed containment with negative air machines, and the waste goes to a landfill approved to take it.
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We handle residential demolition across Northern California. That covers whole houses, garages, sheds, and mobile homes. Work starts with an asbestos survey and permits, then the teardown and haul-off. A family company since 1967.
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Commercial demolition for retail buildings, small offices, warehouses and ag structures. We handle the asbestos abatement, the utility cuts, the teardown and the debris loads. Buildings up to two or three stories are our size range.
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Interior demolition for remodels and tenant improvements across the Central Valley and Bay Area. We gut spaces down to the studs and hand back a clean shell your builder can start in.
View Details We break out and haul away old concrete. Driveways, garage slabs, patios, walkways, foundations and footings all come out the same way. Broken concrete goes to a recycling yard and gets crushed into base rock.
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Fire damage cleanup starts once the fire is out and the building is cold. We take down burned structures and haul the debris to permitted disposal sites. The lot is left clear for your rebuild contractor.
View DetailsA few of the questions we hear most around Santa Clara. If yours is not here, call and ask. The person who answers runs the jobs.
A building that needs to come down, a space to gut, asbestos in the survey, or a fire to clean up after? Call or send the form. We look at the property, price the job in person, and give you a number that holds. Estimates are free.
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