Hydraulic bursting, crushing, and splitting provide an almost silent demolition technique for removing concrete and masonry into manageable lumps with minimal noise and vibration. These methods offer an excellent solution when working within noise and vibration sensitive environments such as office blocks, hospitals, shopping centres and residential buildings where these constraints exist.
Hydraulic bursting, crushing and splitting breaks up concrete structures by applying lateral forces against the concrete, and represent methods which are able to be used in most situations. However, rather than shattering the concrete into bits as impact tools would, the lateral forces build up over time to crack the concrete into smaller sections.