Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 75.90
Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Dec. 6, 2021

STARS v2.2

Carnegie Mellon University
OP-19: Construction and Demolition Waste Diversion

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.93 / 1.00 Janice Held
CDFD Principal Project Manager
Campus Design and Facility Management
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Construction and demolition materials recycled, donated, or otherwise recovered:
1,511.16 Tons

Construction and demolition materials landfilled or incinerated:
110.54 Tons

Percentage of construction and demolition materials diverted from the landfill or incinerator through recycling, donation and/or other forms of recovery:
93.18

Optional Fields 

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:
New buildings or renovations over 2 million dollars are required to achieve LEED Silver status, and typically the university achieves a 90 – 95% diversion percentage for these projects. The University does encourage waste diversion on smaller projects, and while we do not track construction waste from smaller projects it is estimated to achieve a 50 - 75% diversion due to recycling and donation. We utilize local nonprofits such as Construction Junction and Habitat for Humanity’s Recycle to Salvage items on small jobs, such as doors, casework, lights, etc.

Website URL where information about the institution’s C&D waste diversion efforts is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
CMU CDFD Projects
Waste Diversion Summaries since 2019
PROJECT TOTAL CONSTRUCTION WASTE (TONS) TOTAL WASTE DIVERTED FROM LANDFILL (TONS) TOTAL PERCENTAGE CONSTRUCTION WASTE DIVERTED FROM LANDFILL (%)
CMU TCS Hall North 489.27 464.81 95.00%
CMU at MILL 19 235.58 215.07 91.29%
CMU ANSYS Hall 558.74 539.45 96.55%
CMU MIIF 338.11 291.83 86.31%

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