GM Touts C&D Recycling Effort

General Motors Co., Detroit, is engaged in a major demolition and construction project at its Warren, Mich., Technical Center, and the company says recycling is an important consideration in the work being done

The automaker is bringing together research and development jobs that had been widely scattered to the suburban Detroit site. The newest edition to the Technical Center campus is called the Vehicle Engineering Center (VEC) and, according to GM, is “one of the largest single-tennant office buildings planned in the country.

The project involves not only new construction, but also the renovation and expansion of existing buildings

The foundation for the new building alone will involve the use of 7,000 cubic yards of concrete and more than 115 tons of reinforcing steel

The demolition of whole and partial buildings will yield an estimated 3,850 tons of scrap metal, while some 1,100 cubic yards of concrete has been crushed and reused as foundation for a new tower that is being built

When the project is complete, approximately 8,000 engineers and support staff will work at the Warren Technical Center.