The recently completed Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts facility, located in the active downtown district of Orlando FL, achieved an over 75% diversion rate for demolition and construction related waste. In part due to the complex job site staging and management required for the urban site spanning across 2 city blocks, the general contractor chose to engage a waste management company that provided turn-key services. The provider arranged for the various containers and orchestrated delivery to the various processing facilities. They also provided monthly reports that kept a running tally of all waste management activity and overall diversion rate as construction progressed. This helped to reduce the paperwork headaches and quality control time required from the GC's very busy team. The one lesson to share is to be cautious of comingled collection of more conventional jobsite office waste, such as paper and plastic/glass beverage containers. Depending on the recycling center's sorting/ reporting procedures, this may not qualify as meeting the (2) LEED accepted comingled reporting methods (i.e., if they cannot break out reporting by material type or adequately document average facility diversion rate). If its incidental in amount, its certainly not an issue to include this as "waste" in project calcs. However, in a long-term project these materials may represent a greater share of total project waste than one might initially expect!
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