Burns & McDonnell’s Minneapolis-St. Paul solid waste and resource recovery group, has been contracted to retrofit McLeod County, Minnesota’s recycling facility through a new design-build project.
The retrofit will support the building’s transition from five-sort to single-stream recycling, the company says, addressing local demand for increased sustainability and greater convenience for county residents, mirroring national recycling trends. The project is expected to quadruple the facility’s recycling processing capacity from 5,000 tons to 20,000 tons of material per year, the company says.
Under the new design-build contract, Burns & McDonnell says it will use its in-house team to plan, design and construct the facility with an accelerated schedule for completion. The firm says its unique philosophy of integrating the design process with construction outcomes helped secure Burns & McDonnell’s role as prime contractor of the project, which has progressed from the planning and design stages and is about to begin the initial construction phase.
“The county’s primary goal is to meet the demands of citizens in a way that is fiscally responsible, which the project accomplishes by being funded entirely through the county’s Solid Waste Abatement Fund, while also taking into account long-term environmental needs,” says Robert Craggs, department manager of Burns & McDonnell’s solid waste and resource recovery practice. “And by reusing select portions of the facility’s equipment and building infrastructure, McLeod County is able to save more than $1 million. In addition, the new design encourages greater community participation in recycling and will increase the county’s revenue stream from the sale of increased quantities of processed recyclable materials.”
The facility, in Hutchinson, Minnesota, will serve McLeod County and the surrounding region. The $4.4 million project is scheduled for completion in spring 2015.
The retrofit will support the building’s transition from five-sort to single-stream recycling, the company says, addressing local demand for increased sustainability and greater convenience for county residents, mirroring national recycling trends. The project is expected to quadruple the facility’s recycling processing capacity from 5,000 tons to 20,000 tons of material per year, the company says.
Under the new design-build contract, Burns & McDonnell says it will use its in-house team to plan, design and construct the facility with an accelerated schedule for completion. The firm says its unique philosophy of integrating the design process with construction outcomes helped secure Burns & McDonnell’s role as prime contractor of the project, which has progressed from the planning and design stages and is about to begin the initial construction phase.
“The county’s primary goal is to meet the demands of citizens in a way that is fiscally responsible, which the project accomplishes by being funded entirely through the county’s Solid Waste Abatement Fund, while also taking into account long-term environmental needs,” says Robert Craggs, department manager of Burns & McDonnell’s solid waste and resource recovery practice. “And by reusing select portions of the facility’s equipment and building infrastructure, McLeod County is able to save more than $1 million. In addition, the new design encourages greater community participation in recycling and will increase the county’s revenue stream from the sale of increased quantities of processed recyclable materials.”
The facility, in Hutchinson, Minnesota, will serve McLeod County and the surrounding region. The $4.4 million project is scheduled for completion in spring 2015.
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