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Transfer Stations
Five key questions to ask when planning a new transfer station, from facility design and operations to site selection and long-term needs.
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Transfer Stations
Explore key transfer station design considerations that can improve plant performance, efficiency, safety and long-term operational success.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Involving the operations team early in MRF design and equipment planning delivers a safer, more serviceable facility and far less costly rework.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Twenty-five years of MRF design in review: more technology, a sharper focus on safety, and systems designed around the material and the local market.
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General
Change during design and construction is inevitable. A team that reacts quickly protects your budget, your schedule and the final facility.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Automated front-end systems, more optical sorters and AI-driven probability tuning — the trends reshaping how recovery facilities sort material.
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General
Compares early-stage facility project planning to solving a puzzle, outlining how upfront vision, planning, and execution drive successful outcomes.
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Highlights Cambridge's design-build expertise across recycling centers, transfer stations, and RNG plants, featured in a Waste Today article.
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Cambridge Companies climbed to #16 on the Inc. Regionals 2025 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. Southwest.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Examines how industrial-scale graphite recovery technology could strengthen circular battery recycling and reduce reliance on imported raw materials.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Explores how AI-driven sorting, predictive analytics, and route optimization are helping waste management operations run more efficiently and sustainably.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Details how robotic sorting, AI, and optical sorting technologies are automating C&D recycling to boost throughput and material quality.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Explains why construction and demolition recycling matters for sustainability, covering its benefits, commonly recycled materials, and key challenges.
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Transfer Stations
Looks at emerging materials and smart technologies, from polymer-modified concrete to load-sensing floors, shaping the future of tipping floor design.
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Transfer Stations
Examines why durable, well-designed tipping floors are essential to safe, efficient waste handling in transfer stations and other waste facilities.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Shares best practices for designing and operating recycling centers, covering efficient layouts, sorting technology, staff training, and maintenance.
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Transfer Stations
Outlines how the design-build model streamlines transfer station projects, improving collaboration, cost efficiency, and risk management.
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Transfer Stations
Explains why construction expertise in regulatory compliance, layout, and durable materials is essential for successful transfer station projects.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Explores emerging sorting, robotics, AI, and renewable energy innovations helping recycling centers boost efficiency and cut their environmental footprint.
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Transfer Stations
Walks through the step-by-step process of building a transfer station, from assessing community need and site selection to permitting and construction.
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Transfer Stations
Provides a guide to daily transfer station operations and best practices, covering waste receipt, sorting, compaction, and site maintenance.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Explains how Material Recovery Facilities support sustainability through resource conservation, energy savings, job creation, and lower emissions.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Breaks down the operational steps within a Material Recovery Facility, from collection and sorting to baling, storage, and logistics.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Outlines key design considerations for Material Recovery Facilities, including layout efficiency, space optimization, and advanced sorting technology.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Examines how Material Recovery Facilities help manage rising global waste and plastic pollution amid contamination and market volatility challenges.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Details the environmental and economic benefits of Material Recovery Facilities, from conserving resources and cutting emissions to creating local jobs.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Covers the role of Material Recovery Facilities in sorting recyclables and distinguishes between clean and dirty MRFs in waste management.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Explains how Material Recovery Facilities sort and process recyclables like paper, metal, and plastic to reduce waste and support the circular economy.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Outlines the key components of a solid waste management plan and explains how Material Recovery Facilities help divert waste from landfills.
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Transfer Stations
Explains what transfer stations are and how they consolidate waste loads for cost-efficient transport, improved recycling, and reduced landfill use.
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Transfer Stations
Explores how smart technology, odor control, and pest management help modern transfer stations cut environmental impact and support recycling goals.
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RNG Facilities
Describes how Aerated Static Piles use forced aeration to speed organic waste decomposition, making them an efficient large-scale composting method.
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RNG Facilities
Explains Cambridge's end-to-end approach to constructing RNG facilities, from project management through commissioning and operational support.
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RNG Facilities
Cambridge details key considerations for designing RNG facilities, covering site selection, feedstock management, technology, and regulatory compliance.
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RNG Facilities
Cambridge outlines the feasibility, design, construction and regulatory services an RNG facilities contractor provides for renewable natural gas projects.
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Cambridge highlights how layout, lighting, push/scrape walls, and pedestrian separation help build safety into new waste and recycling facilities.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Jeff Eriks and Evan Williams share lessons learned on commonly overlooked areas in material recovery facility design, from tipping halls to site planning.
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Transfer Stations
Evan Williams of Cambridge outlines common transfer station design mistakes in planning, site design, construction and operations, plus how to avoid them.
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Cambridge Companies is ranked number 77 in the Southwest region on the 2024 Inc. Regionals list of fastest-growing private companies.
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Transfer Stations
Location, efficiency, durability, flexibility, cost and safety — the six factors behind a transfer station that works for you and your customers.
Design-Build Construction: How Cambridge Integrates The Construction Process to Deliver Turnkey Solutions
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General
Cambridge outlines how design-build integrates planning, design and construction under one team to deliver turnkey projects faster and at lower cost.
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Transfer Stations
Cambridge explains how waste transfer stations improve collection efficiency, reduce hauling costs and support recycling within the waste management cycle.
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Trucking Facilities
Cambridge shares key considerations for designing a truck maintenance facility, including service types, bay layout, vehicle mix, and industry trends.
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Cambridge Companies sponsors the 12th Annual Garbageman's Invitational golf event, raising funds for the Environmental Research and Education Foundation.
Rising Design-Build Firm, Cambridge Companies, To Speak About Solid Waste Operation Safety Practices and Design at Waste Expo 2022 In Las Vegas
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Cambridge Companies' Evan Williams speaks on solid waste operation safety and MRF design during two panel sessions at WasteExpo 2022 in Las Vegas.
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Transfer Stations
Covers five key factors, location, efficiency, durability, flexibility, and cost, that shape a convenient, cost-effective transfer station design.
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Hauling & Maintenance Facilities
Shares design considerations, including truck types, bay sizing, and wash areas, for planning an efficient and safe truck maintenance facility.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Industry experts on the three areas that decide a MRF project: design and construction, equipment installation, and fire prevention.
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Material Recovery Facilities
The design phase decides a MRF's cost for years. Common structural, utility and coordination pitfalls to catch before permitting and construction.
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Transfer Stations
Explains how transfer stations must plan for diversion of recyclables and organics alongside municipal solid waste, not just standard trash transfer.
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Compares repurposing an existing building against new construction, showing why old warehouses and shops often fall short for hauling and MRF operations.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Cambridge outlines four steps MRF operators can take to manage construction schedules and costs despite inflation and ongoing labor shortages.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Cambridge and Machinex Technologies share five tips for designing a material recovery facility that can adapt to future site, equipment and market changes.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Outlines steps for converting an existing building into a material recovery facility, starting with clearly defining throughput and output goals.
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Transfer Stations
Weighs the decision between retrofitting an existing building and new construction, using a transfer station programming document to guide the evaluation.
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Hauling & Maintenance Facilities
Explains how climate control, lighting, and employee amenities in a maintenance shop help waste companies attract and retain skilled service technicians.
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General
Reviews how budget and schedule risks arise during scope development, due diligence, and permitting, and how design-build teams help manage them.
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General
Covers key questions owners should answer before converting an existing building, from code compliance to traffic flow, into a new operational facility.
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General
Why three-month and 12-month post-construction evaluations belong in the project schedule, and what each walk-through should look for.
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General
Details design strategies, like reinforced push walls, for building transfer stations and MRFs that stay durable under heavy daily wear.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Highlights close-out steps, punch lists, commissioning, and staff training that help a newly built or retrofitted MRF run safely and efficiently.
Organics 101: A Stakeholder’s Guide to Organic Waste Material and Potential Strategies for Processing
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General
Introduces the main categories of organic waste, including source-separated organics, and the challenges of building a profitable processing business.
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Transfer Stations
Discusses factors like volume growth, material mix changes, and code compliance that signal when a transfer station needs a redesign or expansion.
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General
Outlines the differences between design-build and design-bid-build delivery and what owners should know before starting the bidding and permitting process.
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Material Recovery Facilities
'What are our needs?' is the first question in any MRF upgrade. How to evaluate the need, set performance goals and bring in the right experts.
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Transfer Stations
A tipping floor is not just concrete and rebar. Why specialised design and construction experience decides how long a transfer station lasts.
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Material Recovery Facilities
Defining MRF costs from site selection through operations and maintenance at the start of design is what keeps them under control for years.
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