My intent in signing on with Jaynes,
I've been with the company now almost two years, is to help the company
look at how they can expand their market in Colorado in particular,
as well as look at internally how they can transform operations and
systems towards sustainability.
>> Claire can you tell us a little bit about Jaynes corporation and
work that you do.
>> Yeah, we're a commercial construction company and right now we're in
Santa Fe building a new hospital there and that's a $130 million project.
We just finished building the geo-science physics and
engineering building here at college.
It is a lead gold project.
Its inspiration really comes from it being the geoscience physics and
engineering center of the campus.
So there's quite a lot of importance put on the project itself being an example of
bringing sustainability and looking at kind of the science behind sustainability.
>> What are some of the sustainability and
issues that you are trying to move forward at Jaynes?
And it's a tough industry so there's going to be some challenges there.
>> Well Jane's has done almost I think at this point where at 67 lead
certified projects in our, you know, seventy years.
We have looked I think in the last year with
my joining the team not only at what the client drives in terms
of looking at green building but also what we can do as a company internally.
So my efforts have been focused on looking at
construction wastes and how we can measure that.
I come from the school of thought that what gets measured, get done.
So really my effort in the last year has been to work with the leadership
team on understanding really what tools are out there to measure.
We work with both Waste Management, as well as Phoenix Recycling.
And Phoenix is more of a local company,
whereas Waste Management is very big, nationwide.
And both have different ways that they work on sustainable
in particular to waste and Waste Management currently has what
they call the dirt program and it's a way to essentially use your holes,
the number of holes taken from the construction site And they analyze
the materials and then they create for you a spreadsheet on exact
numbers related to what's been hauled to the landfill versus what's been recycled.
And so that's something that's been helpful for
me internally as a kind of entrepreneur, [LAUGH] is to help
our teams understand what kind of waste we actually produce on each job.
My hope and goal and vision is that we can do that on every single project,
every single job that we have, construction waste is a large problem.
And it's a very complex solution.
