Waste Management Recognizes Companies for Sustainable Construction

Waste Management (WM), Houston, is honoring 10 construction customers with its inaugural Sustainability Circle of Excellence Award. This recognition, highlighting sustainable performances within the construction industry, aims to recognize builders who achieved important sustainability milestones in 2011 as determined by Waste Management’s online Diversion and Recycling Tracking Tool (DART).

DART, launched in May 2011, tracks information related to construction projects, including the amount of material diverted from a landfill to a recycling facility, as well as the types of materials put to reuse. Information on the portal is updated daily to track the environmental performances of the nation’s top builders. The winning companies diverted the highest total tonnage from a landfill in 2011 (starting when DART was launched).

The companies, as well as individual with the company, recognized by WM are the following:

• Big-D Construction Corp. - Jack Livingood
• JE Dunn Construction Co. - Terrence Dunn
• Gibson-Lewis - Rob Lingenfelter
• Balfour Beatty Construction - Robert Van Cleave
• Skanska USA, Inac. - Michael F. McNally
• James H. Cone Inc. - James H. Cone Jr.
• The Walsh Group - Matthew Walsh
• Rockwell Corp. - Raul Ramos
• Nabholz Construction - Bill Hannah

In recognizing the winners of the inaugural award, David Steiner, WM’s president and CEO, says, “Congratulations to each company for their outstanding environmental performance. We look forward to tracking these benchmarks in the future, since they represent a shared commitment to diversion, recycling and sound environmental practices.”

“We want to serve our customers better than anyone in the industry and the DART tool is helping us do that,” says Jim Halter, vice president of construction solutions for Waste Management. “In total, these companies diverted more than 27 thousand tons of construction waste, which is approximately 90 percent of all the total materials discarded.”

For more information on the Sustainability Circle of Excellence Awards, please visit wm.com/dart.