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Associated Builders and Contractors names new CEO/president
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) has appointedMichael D. Bellaman as president and CEO, effective Feb. 1.
In a career spanning 23 years with Lend Lease Corporation, he served as CEO of Ameri
cas forBovis Lend Lease from 2008 to June 2010, having started with the company as a project engineer. Most recently, he has been involved in a number of entrepreneurial initiatives, including serving as managing director of Grow the Pie Ventures, LLC.
Previously, as CEO of Lend Lease Retail and Communities from 2005 to 2008, Bellaman was responsible for the management and development of the Lend Lease Retail, Lend Lease Communities and Actus Lend Lease business units throughout the United States. Additionally, over the course of his career, he managed the design, construction and maintenance of real estate assets, served clients with large real estate portfolios, and led local offices, including those in Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Va.
“Mike [Bellaman] brings to ABC an excellent business portfolio, focused on strategic thinking, business growth and development, and change initiatives, all solidly grounded in the construction industry and real estate market, said 2011 ABC National Chairman Mike Uremovich, Great Lakes Energy Consultants, Manhattan, Ill. “His knowledge of our industry will be of immense value to the association as we work to meet the challenges of today’s business environment,” he said in a written statement
“On behalf of the entire ABC family, I want to thank our outgoing president and CEO Kirk Pickerel who is retiring after nearly 28 years of service to the association, including more than 10 years as its leader,” Uremovich continued. “Under Kirk’s leadership, ABC increased its value and visibility to our member companies, while helping to establish ABC as a top national association among its peers.”
Bellaman was a member of the Virginia Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors where he served as its chairman in 1998 and 1999.
A 1985 graduate of Penn State University where he holds a B.S. in architectural engineering, Bellaman played within the Cleveland Indians’ farm system from 1985 to 1988.
Automated trash collection replacing garbagemen to cut injuries and - 
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The days of burly garbagemen grunting as they lift your week's castoffs into their truck may be numbered.
Already in many suburbs and parts of Cleveland, residents get the whir of a mechanical arm instead.
Nudged by contractors and workers' 'compensation bills, communities and the contractors they hire are automating trash collection. Instead of a three-person crew hoisting cans and bags into trucks, a single driver uses a joystick to m
ake a mechanical claw grab and dump standardized cans.
ake a mechanical claw grab and dump standardized cans."I honestly think that it's the wave of the future," said Chase Ritenauer, service director in North Olmsted, which is shifting this spring to automated service. "I think it's only a matter of time before everybody's automated or there's a requirement that you do it."
In Cuyahoga County, 10 communities have shifted to entirely mechanical trash pickup, with Cleveland shifting over in the next few years. Akron and much of Lorain County also have fully automated trash pickup.
Four Cuyahoga County communities have automated pickup for recyclables only.
Jeremy O'Brien, a director for the Solid Waste Association of North America, an organization of trash companies, said mechanical pickup is used in several major cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Charlotte, N.C.
He estimated 25 percent of municipalities nationwide use it.
The change involves adjustments for homeowners. Out go your old trash cans. No more hauling bags to the curb -- the mechanical arm can't pick them up. The city gives you a standardized can for your trash that you wheel to the curb, and usually another for recyclables.
The "carts," as some cities call them, are often as large as 96 gallons -- easily double the size of a typical garbage can and much larger than an industrial 55-gallon drum. Recycling carts are usually smaller but act as a second bin for eligible trash.
The cans may be too big for some small families to fill or elderly citizens to handle, so cities may offer smaller options of 64 gallons or 32 gallons.
If you create more trash than one cart can handle, you may be hit with an extra cost. Some cities charge you more than $50 to buy an extra cart, but not for collecting the extra trash every week.
Bratenahl and several Lorain County communities have contracts with contractor Allied Waste in which families pay about $10 per month for an extra can. Dave Kidder, Allied's municipal-services manager, estimated that only one in 500 homes needs another cart because recyclables make up so much of a household's waste.
The shift to automated collection was unpopular last year in Toledo. Locally, it has caused concerns in the transition. Independence resident Lisa Jindra, for instance, was bothered that she might have to buy a second can because the change came so close to the holidays.
"After Christmas you don't know how much garbage you're going to have," she said, questioning having a single-size can for everyone. "If you have just one person, you get that can. If you have a family of 10, you get the same type."
Independence Service Director Dave Snyderburn said that the city will have monthly pickups for extra garbage and that residents can leave out bags of trash on special occasions if they need to. The driver will hop out and toss them in the back of the truck.
In the widely scattered Cleveland neighborhoods that have tested automated pickup since 2007, residents seem unaffected by it.
"They're fine for us," said West Sider Laurie Thomas, who was surprised the cans might be controversial anywhere.
Senior citizen Beatrice Wood also had few concerns, saying her children take her trash to the curb anyway.
"We really don't have any problem," she said.
Two things are driving the change for cities and contractors: saving man-hours and reducing injuries. The switch is often paired with an expanded and easier recycling program in which people don't have to separate cans, bottles and paper but can just dump them in the bin.
But the costs of the cans and special trucks -- which can go for $100,000 -- require such a large investment that money savings are limited.
"It's not a slam-dunk that you're going to see savings," said O'Brien of the solid waste association.
He and area service directors said reducing injuries to collection workers is the greatest benefit. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that more than 5 percent of trash collectors miss work each year because of work injuries. In a typical year about 80 are killed on the job.
O'Brien said eliminating strained and sprained backs, shoulders and knees -- and the workers' compensation costs from them -- saves companies money. And when city service workers do the pickup, instead of contractors, the city would save that money.
Cleveland's pilot program includes 15,000 households -- about a 10th of the city. Waste Collection Commissioner Ron Owens estimated the city has saved more than $60,000 in workers' compensation and missed work days because of fewer injuries serving those homes.
Cleveland plans to add 25,000 homes to the service this year and more in coming years.
Automated service allows cities to have fewer people working on trucks -- usually just one instead of the often three-man crews with a driver and two others to pick up bags and cans. That could save money, though cities like Cleveland and Independence, which have their own collection employees, won't be laying off staff. They just use the workers on other jobs and say they will reduce staff by attrition.
Diane Bickett, executive director of the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste Management District, said contractors often charge a little more for automated pickup than for the manual labor, scaring off some business.
But other communities negotiate automated pickup for the same price as before, often with a recycling plan thrown in that reduces landfill waste and earns the contractor or city money from selling recyclables.
Owens estimated Cleveland saved more than $500,000 over the last three years with the shift, about half from lowering landfill charges and half from selling recyclables.
To reach this Plain Dealer reporter: paodonnell@plaind.com, 216-999-4818
