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Recycling ECO Center at Urban Corps
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Urban Corps of San Diego County is a non-profit organization that provides education and jobs to young adults aged 18-25. The majority of youth employed at Urban Corps are high school drop outs who have little or no job training. At Urban Corps they learn new skills while contributing to the overall quality of life in the San Diego area.
Urban Corps’ Recycling Education and Community Outreach (ECO) Center is now under construction and will be complete by the end of 2009. The building has been designed by MPA Architects and is being constructed by Nielsen Construction Ca. to earn the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED certification. The goal is to achieve multiple credits in order to receive Silver rating. Square footage: 5, 812 sq. feet
The Recycling ECO Center will serve as a multi-purpose resource center for the entire San Diego region for educating, training and demonstrating how recycling and conservation: preserves natural resources; reduces pollution; reduces waste hauling costs/expenses; and employs at-risk youth. Part of the Recycling ECO Center curriculum will include fun, hands-on educational exhibits as well as demonstrations on closed-loop recycling, open-loop recycling and “precycling.” As an added bonus, the center will provide Urban Corps of San Diego County with additional space to supplement its successful recycling collection program, which diverts thousands of pounds of recyclables from the waste stream each year.
An important educational and aesthetic component of the Recycling ECO Center will be the Rooftop Resource Garden. The garden will provide an opportunity for the public to experience the value of urban forestry and gardening. Specifically, the Rooftop Resource Garden will serve as a model of sustainable urban working and living environments. A committee of urban landscape/ conservation experts has been assembled to design and execute the garden, as well as to create an adjoining curriculum for visitors of all ages that will include hands-on exhibits and demonstrations on urban gardening and irrigation, its impact and value to the community as a whole. As a result, hundreds of youth in the UCO program will learn urban gardening techniques, while the overall community is exposed to concepts of sustainability.
Urban Corps’ Recycling Education and Community Outreach (ECO) Center is now under construction and will be complete by the end of 2009. The building has been designed by MPA Architects and is being constructed by Nielsen Construction Ca. to earn the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED certification. The goal is to achieve multiple credits in order to receive Silver rating. Square footage: 5, 812 sq. feet
The Recycling ECO Center will serve as a multi-purpose resource center for the entire San Diego region for educating, training and demonstrating how recycling and conservation: preserves natural resources; reduces pollution; reduces waste hauling costs/expenses; and employs at-risk youth. Part of the Recycling ECO Center curriculum will include fun, hands-on educational exhibits as well as demonstrations on closed-loop recycling, open-loop recycling and “precycling.” As an added bonus, the center will provide Urban Corps of San Diego County with additional space to supplement its successful recycling collection program, which diverts thousands of pounds of recyclables from the waste stream each year.
An important educational and aesthetic component of the Recycling ECO Center will be the Rooftop Resource Garden. The garden will provide an opportunity for the public to experience the value of urban forestry and gardening. Specifically, the Rooftop Resource Garden will serve as a model of sustainable urban working and living environments. A committee of urban landscape/ conservation experts has been assembled to design and execute the garden, as well as to create an adjoining curriculum for visitors of all ages that will include hands-on exhibits and demonstrations on urban gardening and irrigation, its impact and value to the community as a whole. As a result, hundreds of youth in the UCO program will learn urban gardening techniques, while the overall community is exposed to concepts of sustainability.