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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February, 5, 2002 <br />Adlon Agen a <br />Resign. <br />SUBJECT: Outstanding County Prog ram Award: Public Works Deconstruction Project <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Public Works PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) FN? <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />NCACC Press Release Witham MC4doo, wit 2627 <br />Application for Outstanding County <br />Program Awed (Under Separate Cover) TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 7323181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-0681 <br /> Durham 888.7331 <br /> Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive an Outstanding County Program Award from the North Camlina <br />Association of County Commissioners (NCACC). <br />BACKGROUND: In November 2001, Orange County submitted four applications for <br />Outstanding County Program Awards. These nominations included the Masser Orange Address <br />Database (MOAD); Wheels for Work Program; Emergency Preparedness Pocket Guide goal <br />application with Durham and Miami Counties); and the DeconsfrucYion Project. <br />The County was recently notrfled that the Deconstruction Project was one of four winners in the <br />General Government category. Wilbert Mdacou, Public Works Director, submitted the project. <br />Specifically, the project involved the reconstruction, as opposed to the demolishing, of an <br />existing County building. The building was part of the Richard E. Winged Human Services <br />complex and most recently housed Orange Industries, a sheltered workshop. The project <br />involved the reusing of materials recovered from the deconstruction process for repair and new <br />construction by the County. The estimated value of the recovered materials Is $37,130. In <br />atltlhicn. the County was able to minimize, to the extent passible, the amount of construction <br />and demolition waste Iandflled. This included the recyding of 1.05 tons of white goods and <br />5.99 tons of metal, as well as the reuse of materials recovered The county renovation projects <br />identified to use the recovered materials Include flooring at the newly renovated Purchasing and <br />Central Services Building, bricks for rebuilding a retaining wall at the W hitted Building and <br />multiple uses at the soon-to-be renovated Southern Human Services Conference Facility. <br />The estimated cost for the demolition and disposal of this building was $50,000 versus $37,929 <br />for deconstruction; thus a savings of $12,071, not including the $37,130 of recovered materials <br />value.