Building construction services accreditation and bottom ash concrete pilot
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Uh Mr. Cabrella? Okay. Thank you, sir. Uh just real real quick, two two fast items. One, I'm I'm happy to announce that uh our building construction services department uh recently received uh accreditation from the uh International Accreditation Service. This is actually a pretty big deal. It it recognizes the uh the quality and the consistency and the commitment to excellence of our BCS group. So we're very very Proud that uh this uh they they were awarded this distinction, and they're the only county in the nation
with a population of our size, between 500,000 and a million to receive this honor. So uh your building department's doing a lot of great things. There are other counties and cities within the state of Florida. It's easier to get when you're smaller, I guess. But uh we're we're larger, we're growing, uh, and at the clip we're growing. We're very, very proud. With BCS and the things that uh our building official and administrator have done over with that group. So
Rockstars.
That's a tremendous, tremendous accomplishment. The uh the only other thing I just wanted to mention to the board, it's just more of an informational piece, is um uh we received uh approval from the Department of Environmental Protection to embark on a trial. for the use of our bottom ash as a concrete additive with with CMEX up in Brooksville. This is exciting. It represents a wonderful way that we can reuse the ash that we have coming off of the off of the facility. which ultimately, if it
takes off, could lead to some cost avoidance for us, as well as reduce the costs of expansion and not having to expand the landfills. So Solid Waste Team is doing a lot of great things. So I just wanna give them a shout out.
Mike, I'd like to tumblate it just for a quick second too, because that is such a a a great opportunity for us. Those those landfills between the size of the space, uh the amount that the expense that we take into there, the liability to have it to pick it in concrete is phenomenal. Um I know you mentioned one pl plant up in Brooksville, but what about all the other cement plants we have right here to encourage them to get it? I mean we should be able to Take it as it gets processed, stockpile it, when it gets ready for a load, take it to one of them, just drop
it off. Show it the charger for it, just drop it off and let 'em take it and use it.
Yeah, this is a pilot right now, and so I I imagine the scale and the operation of where they wanted to do it, it it's being done there in Brooksville, I assume for technical reasons on CMEX's part. But once we enter, you know, if it does take off, it proves viable we'll we'll have agreements. and there'll be things on how to transport and do the things that perhaps you're asking and we would bring that agreement back to the board. But right now this is the pilot. It's exciting just to get the environmental approvals to go to go and do this. Again, just like for road base, right? So our Solid Waste Team continues to innovate and just do a lot
of great things for ourselves.
Now we haven't done much with
road base, though, have we? No, it's a little difficult because of the parameters that were put on it by the environmental protections, but it doesn't matter. It's still pa uh
literally
paves the way.
Yeah, elevations make it tough because it's got to be above the water level at a certain point, I get that. Um but yeah, I think it's it's a great opportunity, and I tell you, we could save a whole lot of money for years down the road. So
the cost the cost of constructing a new landfill cell is is well over. Over twenty million dollars.
So I mean we're literally e every one of our people we can't get together would be great. Yes sir. That's all. Did you wanna say something? I just wanted