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Recycling Environmental Resource Center PROJECT BACKGROUND Key Project Goals: Based upon staff expertise, onsite observations with customers, communication with residents and community input meetings, the following goals for the project were established: - Update facilities to current standards - Expanded reuse and exchange opportunities - Improved customer circulation, access and facilities - Better separation of back-of-house operations and customer service areas - Improved site security - Improved capacity to accept increased range of hard-to-recycle and/or reusable materials - Improved education, information and wayfinding signage - Safer and more efficient operations - Opportunities for increased revenue generation - Flexible to allow for special events, future materials etc. - Minimum LEED-Gold Facility Timeline: Approve Use of Design Build February 2010 Approve Swinerton to Prepare DB Bid Docs March 15, 2010 Award Pankow-Noll & Tam November 2010 Public Meetings November-January 2010 DRB Meetings February-March 2010 Temp Ops/Construction Begins May 2011 Construction Complete April 2012 Project Budget/Financing - Total Cost $3.5 Million - Design Build Contract Costs (Design and Construction): $3,000,000 - All Soft Costs (Construction Management, Special Studies): $297,000 - Additional Hard Costs (Equipment, 1% for Art, Fire Hydrants etc.): $233,000 - Project financed by $3.5 M (3.88%) loan. Debt service paid through City Integrated Waste Management Fund. -More- ---PAGE BREAK--- Recycling Environmental Resource Center PROJECT BACKGROUND CONTINUED Project Team Pankow Builders Noll and Tam Architects ZETA Communities Swinerton Management & Consulting City of El Cerrito Environmental Services Division and Public Works Department Sub Consultants: Contra Costa Electric, Tipping Mar, LJ Kruse Plumbing, Loisos & Ubbelohde, Gary Strang, lowercase design, Sherwood Engineers, McGuire & Hester Project Features LEED-Platinum On-Site Renewable Energy: 10 kW photovoltaic panels Rainwater Harvesting: 11,000 gallon cistern (provides all-or-most toilet flushing and landscape irrigation needs) Water Efficiency: 40% Water Efficiency before the storage tank Energy Efficiency: Meeting target of 48% better than Title 24 (Actually 70th percentile for LEED energy efficiency, ASHRAE 90.1) Sustainable Materials: FSC Certified wood, reused materials Sustainable Landscape: 100% Native Plants Sustainable Landscape: Low water landscape with storage tank balancing irrigation needs. (Quantities should balance out) Green Education: Interpretive and wayfinding signage to facilitate ease of use and inspire additional environmental action. On-site tours to promote recycling and reuse material through community learning Exemplary Performance: Exceeding in Energy, Green Education and Daylighting Site History: The Recycling Center was started in El Cerrito in 1972, when 33 people brought cans and bottles to the non-profit E.C.ology drop-off center. E.C.ology was one of the first recycling centers in the United States. The Center became a City operation on July 1, 1977. Curbside collection began in El Cerrito the same year. In 1989, the Center’s name changed to the El Cerrito Recycling Center and in 2012, with the current reconstruction it became the El Cerrito Recycling and Environmental Resource Center. Today 350 visitors utilize the site daily diverting approximately 1,500 tons, over and above materials picked up curbside.