Aloha Stadium is generating thousands of tons of steel and other debris bound for destinations around the world. Excavators working for Northwest Demolition and Dismantling use hydraulic shears to reduce large steel trusses, beams and columns for recycling. The contractor estimates more than 90% of Aloha Stadium can be recycled, and because the property is large enough, all of it can be processed on site.
“At least we’re being environmentally sensitive to not put it in the landfills and to reuse this steel, recycle it,” said Stanford Carr, the Aloha Stadium Entertainment District developer. Only a small portion of debris removed from the stadium’s interior spaces is considered waste, headed for a construction landfill in Nanakuli.
Concrete from the demolition can be broken up and used to form the sidelines of the new stadium, joining the existing end zones lower decks to create the bowl of the planned 31,000-seat facility. “That saves us $90 million from demolition and building a new structure,” Carr said.