CRRA 2022 Conference & Tradeshow

Senior Recycling Specialist

This presentation is about Oakland's approach to administering CalGreen recycling requirements. Beginning with a brief overview of Oakland's construction and demolition recycling requirements, the presentation will then share our experience with creating working collaborations across departments with Oakland's Planning and Building Services staff and how we worked to design and implement automated software systems, which now communicate with each other and that help us manage the current construction and demolition recycling program. I will also share Oakland's plans to increase automation between two different software systems which will reduce manual data entry and help us to meet the CalGreen requirements for recycling. The strategy we'll demonstrate, will work well for any City with limited staff resources to manage the day-to-day work to ensure and document recycling is compliant at all residential and non-residential construction projects.

Environmental Program Manager

D is for Deconstruction: City of Palo Alto is pivoting from traditional Construction & Demolition to Construction & Deconstruction.

CALGreen building code requires that 65% of C&D debris must be diverted from most job sites in California, while Palo Alto’s local requirement is to reach 80% diversion. However, to achieve Palo Alto’s aggressive Zero Waste goal to reach 95% diversion by 2030 citywide, waste generated from C&D projects must be better managed. To address that, Palo Alto adopted the Deconstruction and Construction Materials Management Ordinance - the first deconstruction ordinance in the nation that targets both commercial and residential whole structure removal projects.

This presentation will share the development of the ordinance, provide an update on the ordinance implementation since July 2020, show case studies of completed deconstruction projects, and discuss feasibility and plans to expand the ordinance in the future.

CEO

To come.