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As a reporter, she loves learning about Spokane's many growing industries. She enjoys travelling with her husband, snuggling with her cats, and cross stitching. Crews work on a precast concrete component at what now is the Knife River Prestressed facility, in Spokane Valley.
The operations there employ about 80 people. Knife River Prestress also is hiring an additional five to 10 employees, Gay says. Although some of the returned concrete is repurposed, the process is energy intensive, and some concrete is also lost to waste. Environmental Product Declarations EPDs are labels that disclose environmental impacts, such as energy and water use, associated with the manufacturing, allowing customers to select lower impact products.
Using life cycle analysis concepts and an inventory process, Sarkar helped to create EPDs for concrete mixes across four plants. The intern found that a mechanical concrete reclaimer, which is able to separate aggregates and grey water slurry composed of cement and water , would solve the problem of handling concrete returns, increasing the amount of returned product that can be reused.
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