CMRA COMMITTEE TACKLES ADC ISSUE
At its recent teleconference, the ADC Committee of the Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA) decided to support a plan to provide the scientific data to show the safety and usefulness of alternative daily cover (ADC) made from construction and demolition debris.
The goal is to show regulators, legislators and other interested parties that the material is safe. Indeed, as several members of the committee, which is largely made up of manufacturers of ADC, say, they never have problems with hydrogen sulfide gas, the smelly nuisance that has been blamed on ADC, even when the material sits outside in large piles for more than a year. According to the committee members, the problems start when the ADC goes to the customers’ landfill facilities. The committee feels there is a need to provide these facilities with techniques for handling the material.
To that end, CMRA members are meeting with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to discuss recent financial assurance mechanisms the state is placing on landfills that use ADC and to get the state to partner with the CMRA on an in-field project on ADC.
In addition, the CMRA has an opportunity to work with an eastern state’s solid waste authority on a project that looks at two of the authority’s landfills that use ADC from the same supplier. One landfill has no problem with odor, but the second does, and it accepts materials such as municipal sludge, which the first does not.
More information on the actions of the CMRA’s ADC Committee is available by calling (630) 585-7530 or e-mailing info@cdrecycling.org.
GREEN BUILDING GOES MAINSTREAM
Preliminary results of a McGraw-Hill Construction/National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) survey have indicated that there has been a 20 percent increase in 2005 among those in the home building community who are focusing their attention on green, environmentally responsible building.
That number is expected to increase by another 30 percent in 2006, according to a press release from McGraw-Hill Construction.
The findings will be issued in the Residential Green Building edition of McGraw-Hill Construction’s series of SmartMarket Reports.
After several years of slow but steady growth across the country, the green home building movement is rapidly moving to the mainstream.
"Green home building is at a tipping point among the builder population," says Harvey Bernstein, vice president of Industry Analytics and Alliances for McGraw-Hill Construction. Citing statistics from the recent research study, he says green building will boost its market share from $7.4 billion and 2 percent of housing starts last year to $19 to $38 billion and 5 percent to 10 percent of residential construction activity by 2010.
To serve this growing market segment, McGraw-Hill has launched www.GreenSource.construction.com.
MASSDEVELOPMENT SELLS LOT FOR C&D RECYCLING PLANT
MassDevelopment, the finance and development agency for the commonwealth of Massachusetts, has sold a parcel of land that will be used to open and operate a construction and demolition recycling facility.
Devens Recycling Center LLC, through its two partners Kurt Macnamara and James Benson, has purchased an 11-acre plot and is looking to build a 90,000-square-foot C&D recycling plant.
This project will create 50 jobs with the possible addition of more positions once a maintenance shift is established.
The lot already has its permits in place. The company is working on the financing, which it hopes to have complete by the middle of this summer. The groundbreaking on the project also is slated for this summer.
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