Alpine Demolition Invests to Compete in Competitive Market

July 25, 2022

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Kelli and Karsten Pawlik equip Alpine Demolition Services to win bids and tackle projects with an efficiency advantage.

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The term “operational excellence” often is applied to global fast-food juggernaut McDonald’s, which uses precision planning to offer well-liked menu items prepared to meet the same quality standards anywhere in the world.


Based in the same region of northern Illinois, Alpine Demolition Services does not claim to have the global presence of its neighbor McDonald’s. However, Alpine owner Kelli Pawlik and her husband, Karsten Pawlik, also point to operational excellence as a factor in their demolition company’s ability to survive and thrive in the competitive Chicagoland demo market.


The Pawliks point to efficient, well-equipped operations in the field as one of several factors that have enabled the company to grow from modest roots in a home basement office to a company that takes on approximately 100 projects annually.


Alpine Demolition has been featured in an article from Construction and Demolition Recycling's current e-magazine, you can read the full article here.

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