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Industry · 01.27.2025

Premier Recycle partners with Google on sustainable building project

Premier Recycle collaborated with Google and XL Construction on a sustainable mass timber building project in Sunnyvale, California, which significantly reduces carbon emissions and uses responsibly sourced materials.

Premier Recycle, a San Jose, California-based construction and demolition (C&D) recycler, recently partnered with XL Construction on Google’s first-ever mass timber building in Sunnyvale, California.

The innovative project uses a new type of engineered wood that involves layering and laminating smaller pieces of wood together to create larger beams and walls.

According to Google, mass timber’s regenerative qualities and its ability to absorb and store carbon over time—a process called carbon sequestration—make it a sustainable and environmentally friendly choice for building.

Mass timber also helps decrease carbon emissions that come from the extraction, production and transportation of traditional building materials. Because of this, the office building is projected to have 96 percent fewer embodied carbon emissions than an equivalent steel and concrete structure after factoring in sequestration over time.

One hundred percent of the structural mass timber lumber used for the Sunnyvale project was procured from responsibly managed forests certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, Google says.

The building is also all-electric, with solar panels on its roof to generate electricity, and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum rated. All of these features work together to advance Google’s goal to achieve net-zero emissions and operate on carbon-free energy 24/7 by 2030.

Premier played a key role in recycling materials for this project, supporting its goal of reducing construction waste.

The collaboration between Google, XL Construction and Premier Recycle showcases the impressive results of prioritizing sustainability, Premier says in a statement announcing the partnership on LinkedIn.

According to Premier, roughly 580 tons of material were diverted over the course of the project.

Date Published: 01.27.2025
Source: Construction & Demolition Recycling

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