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52 General Engineering and Environmental Management Services Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts, California HDR provided planning, design and construction support services to the districts on this 4,400- ton - per -day materials recovery and transfer station. Initially, HDR prepared preliminary facility designs and operational evaluations in support of the district's environmental review process. Owned and operated by the County Sanitation District No. 2 of Los Angeles County, the facility will enable the Districts to receive and transfer solid waste, and sort select loads of commercial waste to recover recyclables. Completed in July 2005, the facility now processes 250 tons of waste per day. With slight adjustments and quick additions, Puente Hills Materials Resource Facility (PHMRF) could reach a maximum capacity of 4,000 TPD and recover more than 600 TPD. The project includes a 210,000- square -foot enclosed materials recovery and transfer building. HDR prepared the specifications for the procurement of the materials recovery equipment in phases, with the first phase designed to process 500 TPD of mixed commercial waste. The tipping floor and transfer area is being designed to receive and transfer the residuals from the full 4,400 tons per day. The transfer ports are being designed to retrofit with compactors should it become necessary in the future. The project also includes entry and exit scale facilities, a maintenance facility for station rolling stock, a fueling station and a public recycling drop off facility. The project also includes a two -story administration building with an attached walkway to PHMRF to allow tours, which can safely view the operations. Great effort is given to keeping noise and pollutants away from the neighbors and out of public view. The facility was built green with recycled steel, low- emission equipment and high - efficiency HVAC. The adjacent Puente Hills Landfill has 100 miles of gas collection piping and the world's largest landfill gas energy facility, which provides almost all of the MRF's power. The facility was awarded the SWANA 2006 Gold Award of Excellence. City of Phoenix, Arizona Faced with a fast - growing population, Phoenix needed to quickly replace Skunk Creek Landfill, one of the city's last urban facilities. Once closed, waste would have to be shipped from the city's northern neighborhoods to a facility 60 miles away. Without a station to separate waste and recyclables, shipping could be cumbersome — and costly. The solution was the 450 -acre, $40 million City of Phoenix North Gateway Campus, including the 4,000 tons - per -day North Transfer Station and Material Recovery Facility (NTS -MRF). The facility has an administrative building, two scale houses, a maintenance facility and fueling station. An IT communications center, materials recovery line and commercial transfer areas were drawn into the design. Top - loading ports were built to accommodate expansion at NTS -MRF, which can now process 320 tons of waste per day. HDR and partner JRMA provided programming, design and construction services. To withstand the harsh heat and relentless sun, the 42 -acre facility had to have a durable shell and efficient operations to conserve electricity and water. The expansive NTS -MRF, including the 180,000- square -foot transfer facility where recyclables are first separated from waste, lights its exteriors with power generated from a solar grid. Long roof overhangs shade interiors and reduce cooling needs while highly reflective and emissive roof paint minimizes heat radiation and improves HVAC performance. More than 90 percent of structural steel used in the NTS -MRF is recycled. The NTS -MRF was carefully erected between native desert floodplains with a minimal footprint and a profile evoking the desert landscape. Displaced native plants, including the protected Saguaro cactus, were relocated to preserve the surrounding desert habitat and lessen water needed to nourish non - indigenous plants. Page 37 l DR