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High-Profile: Green Facilities Development News
Market Basket LEED Certified
Manchester, NH - The new 94,000sf Market Basket store located at the corner of Elm and West Auburn Streets in downtown Manchester has been awarded LEED Certification by the US Green Building Council and is proudly displaying its new certification plaque in the store. The Manchester Market Basket is the first newly constructed supermarket to achieve LEED certification in New Hampshire. The new store was developed by RMD Inc of Tewksbury, Mass. for Demoulas Super Markets Inc. and the Market Basket stores; Pro Con Inc of Manchester, N.H., was the general contractor for the project. Prellwitz/Chilinski Associates Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. was the project architect. Throughout the design and construction process, Demoulas and Pro Con took measures to significantly reduce the Market Basket’s energy use. The goal was to reduce the store’s energy consumption and attain a 16% improvement in energy performance when compared to similar sized stores. “Historically, super markets consume large amounts of energy due to the large amount of refrigeration required,” stated Dan Messier, senior vice president of Pro Con. He added that sustainable design practices were incorporated into each phase of design, construction, and operation of the building. Supermarket refrigeration systems traditionally use large amounts of energy to run because they cycle on and off, allowing humidity and frost to build up. By
Holding Market Basket’s LEED Certification plaque (l to r): Dan Messier Pro Con SVP; Michael Kettenbach, RMD Inc.; Ted Gatsas, Mayor - City of Manchester; Ken Juthe, Pro Con PM; and Dennis Carpenito, Market Basket ass’t mgr.
World Demolition Summit
Rochester, MA - For the past four years, Demolition & Recycling International magazine and the KHL Group have been bringing together the brightest minds and biggest talents in the demolition, dismantling, and recycling trades for the World Demolition summit, the premier international conference and awards show for the demolition industry. The Summit, held in Amsterdam each November, obvi-
installing a desiccant dehumidification system, excess humidity is removed from the air, and the build-up of frost on the store’s refrigeration systems is prevented. The desiccant system provides a drier, more comfortable environment for shoppers, extends product shelf life, and reduces frost build-up on frozen products and refrigerated cases, saving energy. Other energy savings features include insulated windows that reduce heat transfer and increase the amount of natural daylight in the building, low-flow plumbing fixtures that reduce water usage by 33%; energyefficient lighting throughout the interior of the store and exterior LED lighting fixtures controlled by photo sensors that auThe World Demolition Summit is held in tomatically turn off lights at dawn and on Amsterdam each November at dusk; and a waste heat recovery system that captures waste heat from the refrigeration compressors and utilizes it to heat the ously features proud participation from the building. biggest names from continental Europe and the UK, but also a great showing from the US and even participants from Brazil, India, and New Zealand—making it truly an international event with representatives from 95 companies spread throughout 17 countries. The event is a brilliant testament to the truly remarkable demolition projects that take place across the globe every year. Dedicated Commercial Building Track Some of the stunning projects highlighted 24 Accredited Workshops this year included the dismantling by a Norwegian contractor of a Soviet-era na4000+ Attendees val destroyer wrecked on the bottom of the 150 Exhibitors North Sea and the ongoing clean up and Live Demonstration Stages recovery of Christchurch, NZ following Keynote by NPR’s Alex Blumberg the massive earthquake of 2011. New England was well represented by Costello Dismantling of Rochester, MARCH 5-7 2013 SEAPORT WORLD TRADE CENTER, BOSTON, MA Mass., who once again was on the short list
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of finalists in the Recycling and Environmental award category for the dismantlement and recycling of an 1890’s rope-making complex in Plymouth, Mass. Typically, the valuable antique lumber found in these mills can be carefully salvaged during demolition and given a second life as flooring and architectural beams in new construction. In this structure, however, the oils (mineral and perhaps even whale oils) used to condition the hemp fibers had so thoroughly saturated the lumber that re-use options became extremely limited. With disposal of this wood an unattractive prospect environmentally and economically, Costello developed a procedure to manufacture a boiler-ready bio fuel product on-site – a procedure that
Costello Dismantling represents New England at the summit. had not been successfully implemented in this market to that point. The finished product was tested to meet stringent criteria and shipped to a bio-fuel power plant to be used to make electricity. Costello Dismantling, winner of this award in 2009 and 2011, was unfortunately not able to bring home the trophy this year, but was honored to be a nominee alongside some of the giants of the worldwide demolition industry.