Hartsfield-Jackson Launches New Sustainability Efforts
Staff Report From Metro Atlanta CEO
Wednesday, March 16th, 2016
As part of their ongoing efforts to create the most sustainable airport in the world, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport officials today publicized two projects currently out to bid.
“We plan to augment our sustainability program and incorporate it into everything we do at the Airport,” ATL General Manager Miguel Southwell said today. “Completing these two projects will put us on the path of being one of the most sustainable airports in the world.”
Green Acres ATL Energy Park
ATL officials released a Request for Proposal to construct a state-of-the-art, onsite, composting and recycling facility. The successful applicant will lease up to 30 acres of land from the City of Atlanta to design, construct, finance, operate, and maintain the facility. The Green Acres ATL Energy Park will repurpose, reprocess, and/or recycle at least 90 percent of domestic municipal solid waste generated at ATL. The facility will also process chipped yard trimmings from the City’s Department of Public Works.
A pre-proposal conference for the Green Acres ATL Energy Park will be held Tuesday, March 29 at the ATL Technical Support Campus.
The link for the Green Acres RFP can be found here:
Electric Shuttle Bus
ATL officials also announced an Invitation to Bid to procure a 22-passenger, 40-foot electric shuttle bus. The bus must be zero-emission and capable of operating for 14 hours a day without interruption. It may be recharged through a conductive charging system. There is a possibility that a second bus may be obtained, as well.
The link for more information about the Invitation to Bid for the shuttle bus can be found here:
