Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 54.25
Liaison Sarah Fortner
Submission Date March 1, 2019
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Carleton College
OP-20: Construction and Demolition Waste Diversion

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.98 / 1.00 Alexandra Miller
Sustainability Program Coordinator
Energy and Sustainability
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Construction and demolition materials recycled, donated, or otherwise recovered during the most recent year for which data is available within the previous three years:
7,485.32 Tons

Construction and demolition materials landfilled or incinerated during the most recent year for which data is available within the previous three years:
191.19 Tons

Percentage of construction and demolition materials diverted from the landfill or incinerator through recycling, donation and/or other forms of recovery:
97.51

A brief description of programs, policies, infrastructure investments, outreach efforts, and/or other factors that contributed to the diversion rate for construction and demolition waste:

For Carleton's Weitz Center project (completed Sept 2011) the contractor tracked waste for LEED requirements. For that project, total Waste (2010-2011) was 7136.40 tons of which 6592.89 tons were recycled/re-used ( 92% )

Calendar year 2011 Waste for the Weitz Center project was 640.37 tons of which 558.46 tons were recycled/re-used (87%)

The large amount of demolition (1954 classroom wing and 1934 auditorium balcony) occurred in 2010 and boosted the overall material recycling.

2017-2018 included the demolition of Mudd Hall and beginning construction of a new science building. This is reflected in the large amount of recycled C&D that increased from 980 tons to 7,485.32 tons of material. The project is tracking to be a LEED Platinum building.


The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

For non-LEED projects, we do not currently have data on construction and demolition materials that have been recycled, donated or otherwise recovered. The last two major campus construction projects (Weitz Center 2011 and Cassat and James Halls 2009) were or are about to be all LEED gold certified, which requires a certain percentage of construction waste to be recycled, donated or otherwise recovered.


For non-LEED projects, we do not currently have data on construction and demolition materials that have been recycled, donated or otherwise recovered. The last two major campus construction projects (Weitz Center 2011 and Cassat and James Halls 2009) were or are about to be all LEED gold certified, which requires a certain percentage of construction waste to be recycled, donated or otherwise recovered.

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