[CPEO-MEF] Army - Sustainable Construction and Demolition

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Policy Calls for Sustainable Construction, Demolition

Fielding Environmental Solutions (Army Environmental Center)
Spring, 2006

Lt. Gen. David Barno, while the Army’s Assistant Chief of Staff for 
Installation Management, issued new Army policy on 6 February 2006 
requiring that installations apply the principles of sustainability as 
they build, renovate, or demolish facilities. The policy is an update to 
an ACSIM policy memorandum from 2001 and requires that all new 
construction, demolition, or renovation contracts divert at least 50 
percent of waste from landfills.

More than 1.4 million tons of construction and demolition debris was 
generated by the Army in the year 2004 alone. The Army can save valuable 
landfill space on installations and reduce the costs related to hauling 
and disposing waste at off-post landfills by reducing the volume of 
materials disposed of in landfills or incinerators.

For several years, the Army has worked at numerous installations with 
installation staff, surrounding communities, and local businesses to 
develop sustainable practices for facilities waste removal and 
installation waste management. The Army is also developing business 
models that specialize in the labor, transportation, storage, and retail 
aspects of recovering used building materials for reuse or recycling.

The ACSIM Memo and other deconstruction resources can be found on the US 
Army Sustainability Web site at 
www.sustainability.army.mil/resources/library_deconstruction.cfm.

For more information about Fielding Environmental Solutions, see
http://www.aec.army.mil/usaec/technology/fes00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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