Building Salvage

Do you need building salvage and material recycling? Tamco Construction offers the most cost effective and environmentally sound solutions in the demolition and removal industry.


At one time building salvage might have just meant removing the valuable copper and metals from a structure before it was demolished and hauled off to the landfill in dump trucks. In fact, 40 percent of all construction related waste was landfilled until fairly recently. Today, that rate has been cut in half thanks to sustainable demolition practices.

We are at the forefront of these efforts in the mid-Atlantic region. We have the resources and contacts to haul tons of valuable materials and get it recycled, reused, resold and most importantly - deducted from our clients’ demolition costs. This means two things:

• We are doing our part to better the environment and the communities where we work
• We are able to pass on huge savings to our clients because our practices bring in so much additional cash flow through the resale and recycling of salvaged materials.

One of our biggest assets as a company is our extensive knowledge of building materials and the real value that they add up to once they are properly extracted for future use. Our experienced team knows exactly what to look for inside any job site and works with a wide network of recycling professionals, salvage yards, builders and independent contractors who look to us for materials in their jobs. Because we do so much business in the communities we serve, we always have ready buyers for the materials of your building that other demolition companies would treat as junk.

For us, building salvage is not just a scrap metal business - there are tons upon tons of wood, stone, metal and component pieces at every demolition site that, with experienced hands, can be properly extracted and resold in order to bring down the cost of the job. While you may be sitting there thinking you have a problem property to get rid of, we look at it from another angle - an angle that can benefit you as the property owner and one that will benefit the environment.

For every pound of building salvage that we are able to recycle and reuse in future projects, that is one less pound that will make its way into a landfill and seep into our Earth. We find assets where other demolition companies find waste. We find value and savings where others in this business would just assume charge you for removal and dumping fees. The industry is changing, and the team here at Tamco has always been ahead of the curve, leading the way with advanced solutions, better equipment and increased working knowledge of materials and their market value.

Building salvage and demolition is very demanding work, but the removal and aftermath is even more jarring. When we approach a job from our salvage and recycling perspective, expenses are transformed into profits, and this immediately translates into savings for people like you who are footing the bill for demolition and removal. We have developed a refined process that we bring to every job and it all starts with your initial consultation - we'll come in, assess the value of the materials of a property, show you the leading rates for demolition, and then deduct a huge sum based on how much we can potentially bring in from the materials on the site.


TAMCO Construction offers building salvage services in Philadelphia, Doylestown, Bethlehem, Easton, Harrisburg, Hazelton and Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Trenton, New Jersey; and Wilmington, Delaware.