Save Hassle and Accelerate Your Project Timeline by Keeping Concrete Crushing On Site
Traditional concrete crushing involves many trips on and off the job site, resulting in expensive, high carbon-emitting projects.
Ascendent Demolition adopts a lean approach. Our portable concrete crusher stays on site, reducing carbon emissions and transportation costs. Crushed concrete is then repurposed as fill material to make a presentable job site once demolition is complete—saving you time, money, and materials on the job.
Transform Unwanted Concrete into Sustainable Fill at Your Pit or Job Site
Our professionals come to you and crush concrete on site, minimizing trucks on and off the project.
If you own a gravel pit but don’t have the tools to crush concrete and asphalt into sellable aggregate materials, we can help!
We crush concrete to your specifications for removal or reuse. We can crush to the WSDOT specs of 1-1/4″ clean or minus.
Work with the best portable concrete crushers in the pacific northwest
With minimal transportation costs and shorter turnarounds, we help keep your project on time and on budget.
By remaining on site, we reduce the carbon emissions produced, ensuring your project stays green, lean, and efficient.
Ascendent has crushed thousands of tons of concrete. You can rest assured knowing our team of experts will guide you through the process.
You’re in control. From gravel size to application, you choose how you’d like to customize and repurpose your crushed concrete.
The ascendent standard: Quality service that goes above and beyond
Discover How We’ve Raised Our Clients’ Project to Great Heights
“We appreciate your many quick budgets as we support our customers evaluating sites. We’ve found your company responsive, resourceful, and professional. I know we can always count on you to “get after it” when it’s time to get the work done. Your professionalism and customer service is greatly appreciated. We look forward to working with your team on many more projects in the future.”
Wayne Williams | President Poe Construction, Inc.
“As a Senior Project Manager in the commercial general contracting field for over 25 years, I have had the pleasure of watching Ascendent grow from a mid-size, limited demo contractor to one of the premier and preferred diversified demo contractors in the state of Washington. We credit their success to ownership not losing touch of the overall value of people and relationships. An initial interview with Ascendent back in the 90’s, when determining who to hire on a large upcoming project, led to an understanding that their company’s pride was based on performance and partnership. Today, with the growth they have achieved, we continue to feel those traits in both their management and their field workers. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Ascendent for years to come.”
Jason Vandenberg | Vice President / Senior Project Manager Northway
PORTABLE CONCRETE CRUSHING—THE SMART CHOICE FOR YOUR NEXT PROJECT
Let our team of experts manage your on site concrete crushing from start to finish.
When you recycle concrete, your project can be used towards your LEED certification.
Continue to keep your job site safe by working with a safety certified team.
We manage the concrete crushing process on site for you, checking one less thing off your list.
We spray water on work areas as needed to control fugitive dust emissions.
Air monitoring protocols are in place and concrete crushing machines are permitted by Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.
Operating at low decibels keeps unwanted concrete crushing noise at bay.
We operate at a low-vibration meaning the vibration caused by concrete crushing won’t seep out of the job site.
Frequently asked questions about portable concrete crushing
The process is simple. Instead of throwing this concrete into a landfill, we can repurpose and recycle this material.
With concrete heavy projects that require on site crushing, we start by breaking up larger chunks over 2 feet in size, then we will use attachments on our excavators to break up those pieces and remove any steel rebar that is set in the concrete as reinforcement.
From there, the smaller 10 inch pieces will be loaded into our jaw machine that reduces the size of this material. Depending on the final size requirements, this material will be belt fed to other types of crushers before being piled up via conveyor belt.
Concrete material is first processed down to an approximate 1’ minus pieces utilizing an excavator with a jaw attachment. Rebar is extracted from this pile utilizing a magnet and any non-concrete material is removed from the pile during this stage. Once material has been processed, piled and is ready for crushing it is loaded into the crusher which utilizes a jaw to crush the material down to size. The jaw is made of two large steel plates that move inwards and outwards with a gap at the bottom to let material fall through. The gap at the bottom can be sized to allow only material that is of a certain size to fall through. If required to get smaller material, then the 2-1/2” minus the material will be sent through a different crushing machine called an impactor. The impactor utilizes a spinning hammer inside a chamber to crush the concrete into smaller sizes. The impactor spins at a high speed and has a screen that only allows material of a certain size to pass through. This material if required can also be sent through a screen to separate large material, or small materials out from the final product.
Crushing can be used to reach LEED certification in two pathways – Utilization of the materials on-site can qualify for the on-site re-use credits. Concrete crushing off-site counts as recycling and will assist with reaching recycling targets as part of the Waste Management credits.
Standard crushing sizes range from as large as 4” minus, down to 2” minus. Where required, Ascendent can create a 1-1/4” minus meeting the WSDOT specifications for CSBC.
Yes! We can provide concrete crushing solutions for pit owners. Simply reach out!
Yes, we can separate the rebar from the concrete before loading into our crusher. Rebar is in most concrete structures. Our excavators go in and break up the larger materials, separate the rebar, and take it off site to a metal recycling facility. From there, we crush the remaining pile of concrete to the customer’s size preference.
Crushed concrete has many uses such as, backfill material, pathways, driveways, drainage, and erosion control.
Yes! We have experience crushing bridges, public buildings, and roads.
We can manage projects of any size. 15,000 tons of concrete is the break even point that makes the portable concrete crushing the most cost effective vs hauling trucks on and off site.
Our expert team maintains the concrete crushing equipment. Running efficiently and effectively leads to less days of fixing broken machinery, avoiding crashed project schedules and shorter turnaround times.
Silica awareness is number 1! LOTO training is important for our crushing machines. Our team undergoes machine specific training – understanding how to properly operate, troubleshooting issues, and understanding the mechanical functions. Recognizing proper machine guards, where they should be in place, and daily inspections of all items.
Ascendent can manage the full lifecycle of the project – Demolition, Crushing, Re-use, placement, or off-site export. Ascendent excels at creating turn-key solutions meaning we handle all aspects of the project with minimal required owner involvement or effort.
Yes. We crush to the WSDOT spec of 1 ¼ inch clean or minus.
Compared to most things in our daily lives its not super loud. From 35’ away it is comparable with the noise made from a large truck.
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