Miron Construction wins state recycling award
Released: October 26, 2007
Recovering more than 11,000 pounds of wood, cans, bottles and office paper have earned Miron Construction the "Big Diverter" award for the demolition of Baker, Salisbury and White Halls on the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus.
To some extremes, UW-Whitewater looks to become the flagship university for the recycling of construction and demolition debris. "More universities will be doing what UW-Whitewater has done," Adel Tabrizi, director of the Bureau of Architecture and Engineering for the Wisconsin Department of Administration, said. Moreover, in the foreseeable future, Gov. Jim Doyle will mandate that all construction and demolition debris will be recycled for state projects.
Present at the award ceremony were Interim Chancellor Telfer and College of Business and Economics' Dean Christine Clements, and Randy Marnocha, vice chancellor of administrative affairs.
"It feels good to have our campus recognized for something positive," Marnocha said. The removal of the two residence halls and the academic building makes room for the new College of Business and Economics building, which is scheduled to open in fall 2009.
Miron Construction was honored at WasteCap's Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Awards (R3) at the Lussier Family Heritage Center in Madison, Oct. 17. WasteCap is a private nonprofit organization, which provides waste reductions and recycling assistance to businesses and institutions throughout the state of Wisconsin. Since its inception, WasteCap has worked with its partners to recycle more than 225 million pounds of construction debris.
- LeQuez Spearman,spearmanlt22@uww.edu
