City officials will break ground this week on a northeast Austin facility that they say will improve waste collection. 听The NESC, located near the intersection of Johnny Morris Road and U.S. 290, will house Austin Resource Recovery (ARR) vehicles and other city fleets, alongside administrative buildings.
The facility, equipped with rainwater collections systems and solar panels, will also include space for public art installations and a community room available for neighborhood groups. 听The new facility will “increase operational efficiency” by streamlining the city’s north side services, ARR spokesperson Keri Greenwalt says.
Citing the “deconstruction” approach that governed the facility’s design, she framed the very building of the facility as helping advance the city’s zero waste goal. The building incorporates its eventual destruction into the design and material choices, she says. “This ‘construction in reverse’ helps keep building materials out of landfills.”
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Author: Asher Price, Axios Austin