Ft. Lewis focuses on C&D debris salvage, recycling.The pollution prevention team at Fort Lewis, Wash., has diverted more than 725 tons of organic material and 1,400 tons of wood debris from its solid waste stream and avoided $174,000 in disposal costs by reusing lumber lumber, term for timber that has been cut into boards for use as a building material. The major steps in producing lumber involve logging (the felling and preparation of timber for shipment to sawmills), sawing the logs into boards, grading the boards according to and other resources from building deconstruction deconstruction, in linguistics, philosophy, and literary theory, the exposure and undermining of the metaphysical assumptions involved in systematic attempts to ground knowledge, especially in academic disciplines such as structuralism and semiotics. . Part of a military construction redevelopment at the fort required the removal of 100 to 200 World War II-era wood framed buildings. Before the buildings were taken down, Fort Lewis, and its partner, the Seattle District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, held a workshop on alternative forms of demolition to facilitate communication between contractors and promote the reuse of building materials Building materials used in the construction industry to create . These categories of materials and products are used by and construction project managers to specify the materials and methods used for . . Building materials that cannot be reused or recovered at Fort Lewis are recycled to the greatest extent possible, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a press release from the U.S. Army Environmental Center. In 2006, more than 9,000 tons of asphalt asphalt (ăs`fôlt, –fălt), brownish-black substance used commonly in road making, roofing, and waterproofing. Chemically, it is a natural mixture of hydrocarbons. and concrete from construction and demolition projects was recycled through a natural aggregate replacement project that ground the materials up and used them in other ways across the installation. Fort Lewis also used 5,000 tons of recycled concrete for projects such as road restoration, repair and access to the timber sales area and road maintenance. More information is available online at http://aec. army.mil. |
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