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Core Service Area
Working in Edmonton.
Edmonton is inside our core service area, so crews go out the same week. We are resourced for scopes with real duration — whole floors, whole buildings and multi-building programs — which is where a full crew is genuinely cheaper to work with than an outfit dipping in and out between other jobs.
Every scope is quoted on site, and hauling and dump fees are inside that number — no separate disposal invoice afterwards, broom-clean and trade-ready at handover. Crews and equipment are staged and ready to mobilize, winter included.
The two things that actually decide how a demolition here runs — who issues the permit, and what you are pulling apart.
Permit Authority
City of Edmonton
Edmonton requires both a development permit and a building permit to demolish a building, and the demolition permit has to be issued before a footing and foundation permit is released — which is why a teardown gates the entire redevelopment schedule behind it. Commercial demolition runs through the Commercial Demolition Building Permit process; interior-only scopes go through a Selective Interior Demolition application instead. Buildings on the Inventory of Historic Resources are reviewed by the Heritage Conservation Unit first.
What Generates the Work
Commercial Stock in Edmonton
Three things generate the large scopes here. Downtown and along 104 Street, Jasper Avenue and 109 Street, aging office towers are being repositioned — whole floors stripped to base building between tenants, sometimes several floors in sequence. Across the older commercial strips and inner-city sites, retail plazas and standalone buildings are being cleared for redevelopment. And through the industrial belts in the north-east and along the Yellowhead, warehouse and shop buildings need mezzanines, racking bases, office fit-outs and process equipment out before a new tenant or a new use can land.
Permit requirements change. Treat this as a starting point for the conversation, not legal advice — we confirm the current process with the authority as part of the on-site estimate.
What We Do Here
Commercial Demolition Services in Edmonton
Every scope below is quoted on site by the person who runs the crew. Hauling and tipping fees are inside that number, and the space is handed over broom-clean and trade-ready.
Interior Strip-OutsWhole floors and whole units taken back to base building.
Downtown and the older commercial strips drive most of the volume here: whole floors taken to base building between tenants, and standalone buildings cleared for redevelopment. Partitions, drywall and furring, T-bar and drywall ceilings, flooring down to the slab, millwork, casework and fixtures, and the redundant mechanical and electrical hung off them — removed to the demarcation your consultants set. Offices and office towers, retail units and strip malls, restaurants and commercial kitchens, and the built-out office areas inside industrial buildings.
Permit path, hazardous materials clearance and utility disconnects at the front end; then the structure down, foundations and slab out rather than buried, backfilling and site grading to what the next phase needs. Multi-building sites come down in one mobilization and one sequence.
Suite gut-outs back to studs and slab, unit by unit or block by block against your turnover calendar, with corridors, elevators, lobbies and occupied suites protected throughout. Daily clean-down, agreed working hours, and insurance and WCB documentation on file before we mobilize.
Office and lunchroom fit-out out to the structural envelope, mezzanines and platforms dismantled with the load path planned before the first cut, racking bases and floor anchors out of the slab, redundant process equipment and housekeeping pads removed, yards and laydown areas cleared. Manufacturing plants, warehouses, oilfield-service shops and logistics buildings.
Selective DemolitionStructure-sensitive removal, judged on what is still standing.
New openings cut in existing walls and slabs to your engineer's sequence and temporary support, partial removals of one wing, floor or elevation while the rest of the building stays in use, and careful work in older buildings where what stays cannot be replaced. Live services isolated and confirmed dead before anything is cut.
Several buildings on one site taken down in one sequence, foundations and slabs out and hauled, land clearing and yard clear-down, and full debris management with every load and every tipping fee inside the quote. Site left levelled and ready for survey, layout or re-lease.
Yes — that is the size of work we are built for. A full-floor strip-out or a whole-building interior demolition keeps a crew productive for the block of days or weeks it deserves, which is where we are cheapest to work with and easiest to schedule around.
Do you work in occupied office towers?
Yes. Downtown work means loading-dock scheduling, service-elevator bookings, after-hours windows and building-management rules. We plan that logistics into the schedule up front rather than discovering it on day one, and we can run off-hours where the building requires it.
Are you available through the winter?
Yes. Zebra Demolition is backed by an established Edmonton landscaping company, so the same experienced crews and the same owned equipment move onto demolition when the ground freezes. Winter dates are staffed — tell us the date you need and we will tell you straight whether we can hold it.
Is disposal included?
Yes. Hauling and dump fees are built into the quote, so there is no separate disposal invoice landing after the job.
How is asbestos handled?
Alberta OHS regulations require asbestos-containing materials with the potential to release fibres be dealt with before demolition, so anything built before the mid-1990s should be assessed. Zebra Demolition is not an asbestos abatement contractor — where an assessment finds asbestos, a qualified abatement contractor handles it and we schedule behind their clearance.
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Sites in more than one of these? Bundling them into a single mobilization is almost always the cheaper way to run it.
