After thinking about your project over night visiting with my contacts, a couple of thoughts:
Most demolition companies charge a set fee and keep the scrap. I cannot imagine anyone paying to do this type of job, much less $ 10,000.
If you have to manually move the scrap down, it will be cost prohibitive. Using the existing elevator shafts might be one option. Chances are the old elevators will not meet the new codes so they will have to be replaced anyway. Then the problem is plugging the shaft because of the limited size. Opening up an entire bank of elevators would be better, but not perfect.
The project I am working on is break even with the salvage of metal. This includes depreciation and selling all equipment when we are done. The developer is thrilled with break even because bids of one to two million were quoted before we started.
A recommendation for consideration, go back to the middle man and offer to be a consultant. Have the development company form a crew taking care of book keeping, pay roll, and liability insurance. You arrange for the sell of metal and how to move it down the building.
Neither of my contacts were interested after looking at the pictures. They called this type of metal straw, meaning the work to weight ratio is not worth considering.
The development company has to remove the material and does not have the resources to do it. They also want to do it as cheap as possible. Be honest with the middle man, it will cost them to remove the scrap and you can limit the damage.
This is the strategy used to start The Scrappers Dream project. Since the owner thought it would cost him money to do the project, breaking even is a bonus. As stated on the thread, the goal was a ROI, but that was before the lesson started. Good luck.
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