encouraging Army agencies to seek opportunities to
develop partnerships with community and non-profit
housing groups to salvage materials from obsolete
buildings as an alternative to landfill disposal (OASA
[I&E] 2001). Between 2002 and 2006 many additional
deconstruction projects were completed throughout
the Army. These projects reduced C&D waste by up
to 90 percent.
In 2006 ACSIM issued a Policy Memorandum re-
quiring each Army contract for demolition, new con-
struction, and remodeling and renovation to reduce
C&D waste by a minimum of 50 percent (OACSIM,
2006). This policy institutionalized C&D waste reduc-
tion throughout the Army. It has proven to be quite
effective as the Army is achieving a C&D waste reduc-
tion rate of over 73 percent. With HQ USACE and
Army Environmental Center support ERDC-CERL
has been engaged in technical transfer activities for
deconstruction and C&D waste reduction including
authorship of several Army Public Works Technical
Bulletins, Army and federal instructional events, and
a Whole Building Design Guide Resource Page (Na-
pier 2011).
Toward High-Performance Sustainable Facilities
The years since the Army first embraced sustain-
ability have seen a flurry of regulations and mandates
related to all areas defining SDD, with an emphasis on
energy and water conservation. Far from being a dis-
traction, the evolving national sustainability mindset
has only served to validate Army imperatives to do
the right thing from an SDD standpoint – to ensure
military readiness and retention through quality facil-
ities and services, to train soldiers to succeed in their