Recycling Construction & Demolition Wastes: A Guide for Architects and Contractors
This document has been produced for architects, engineers, specification writers, and contractors who have an interest in and understand the goals of job site recycling, but are not familiar with its practicalities. Without this familiarity, it’s difficult to piece together how recycling works into overall project management, or to counter the concerns of those who object to job site recycling on the basis of cost, complexity, unreliability, or other factors. This document is intended to provide the information to understand and address those objections, and lay the foundation for successful recycling from any new construction, renovation or demolition project.
Urban Heat Island Webcasts and Conference Calls
EPA holds free, national, quarterly urban heat island (UHI) webcasts. Prior to 2008, these meetings were held via conference call. Through these webcasts, and former conference calls, stakeholders from around the country inform each other of their urban heat island-related work. Scientists, practitoners, industry representatives, and government officials and staff all participate.
Water Environment Research Foundation Toolbox
Everyone brings a set of “tools” to the issue of stormwater management. These tools may include an understanding of local hydrology, community development plans, technical expertise on designing stormwater management systems, or the ability to modify or create local regulations. Each skill or resource contributes to your ability to encourage the use of stormwater best management practices in your area and a sustainable approach to stormwater management.
This section is designed to help build on your existing knowledge and add to the resources already in your possession. Use the resources and information presented here to strengthen your knowledge of BMPs and learn how you can bring these ideas to other groups and use them in your own projects.
Sustainable Stormwater Management website
The purpose of this blog is to share T.E. Scott & Associates’s knowledge of stormwater management from what they do: design, maintenance, repair, and construction. And some other cool stuff that strikes their fancy.
Capturing the Storm: Profits, Jobs, and Training in Philadelphia’s Stormwater Industry
BUC’s needs assessment, Capturing the Storm, in which over fifty area businesses determined what the Industry Partnership will do for their company. The requests cited in the recently-released report, were: certifications and training, consumer education, and government relations. After interviews and discussions with key stakeholders and over fifty regional leaders in the industry, the assessment was able to be developed. Some of the issues identified within the report are barriers to market growth such as collaboration, communication, and information – both between businesses and with their customers and government. However, a public/private partnership such as BUC is well-positioned to work with partners to manage the corporate and public policy interests to mitigate these barriers.
