2020 SDDC: Project Report

The management of society’s waste, once overlooked as a burden to simply dump onto the Earth, has grown in public awareness during the last several decades as critical to sustainable planning. For the 2020 Solar Decathlon Design Competition, we are excited to work with a client that is setting the gold standard for contemporary waste management in our home state of Virginia. The Prince William County Landfill is currently designated as an Extraordinary Environmental Enterprise (E4) participant in the Virginia Environmental Excellence Program (VEEP), a title virtually unheard-of for active landfills. Their use of innovating recycling technology, landfill gas harvesting, and much more, attracts visitation from professionals around the globe. Their vision is to build the landfill as an Eco-Park, an important community resource. They desire a new center to house their administrative staff that doubles as a nexus for STEM education and community engagement. This is where we - team Compositive - propose the Eco-Park Learning Center.