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Omega Construction Clears Land for Recycling Plant By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT
revalyu Resources, a German multinational firm that recycles plastics and other materials, is investing $200 million to build a plastic recycling facility in Statesboro, Ga., that will be able to recycle close to 200 million lbs. post-consumer PET (polyethylene terephthalate) annually. The project was made public last December. The facility, being constructed at the Gateway Regional Park, is the company’s first in the United States and the first phase of a long-term project. The site occupies 43 acres. Project’s Start Current efforts are concentrating on earth work and site prep for the construction, which is based on several phases. Omega Construction is off to a fast start. Trevor Jeans, Omega’s assistant project manager, explained that the site had previously cleared and graded. Phase 1 will see the construction of the recycling facility, various support buildings, underground infrastructure, roads and surface parking. see PLANT page 6
Omega Construction has started earth work and preparing the footprint for a new recycling plant from revalyu Resources, being constructed at the Gateway Regional Park.
ABC Names Georgia Number One State for Construction For the first time, Georgia was named the top state for construction in Associated Builders and Contractors’ annual Merit Shop Scorecard. The scorecard, released yearly since 2015, ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on policies and programs that strengthen career pathways in construction, encourage workforce development and advocate for fair and open competition on taxpayer-funded construction projects. “Commonsense conditions, policies and educational systems are vital in creating quality infrastructure built safely, efficiently
and effectively for taxpayers,” said Ben Brubeck, ABC’s vice president of regulatory, labor and state affairs. “More than 88 percent of the U.S. construction industry has already made the choice not to join a union, and the construction industry is facing a skilled labor shortage of more than half a million people. Anticompetitive policies only impede the vast majority of merit shop contractors from building and working in their own communities and further exacerbate the industry’s labor shortage. Taxpayers are best served by policy and educational priorities that create a
level playing field for all contractors to compete.” Georgia’s construction industry continues to prosper, and it earned the top spot due to the state’s continued dedication to workforce development. This year, 99 percent of career and technical education students in the state earned a credential and/or continued to a career. Along with inclusive policies that welcome all of the construction industry to compete to build projects in their communities, Georgia’s construction employment continues to grow. Georgia claimed third in the 2022 rankings.
Florida followed Georgia in second in 2023. Since the inception of the rankings, Florida has placed in the top 10 and continues to be a model state for the merit shop, excelling in the preservation of fair and open competition and creating a policy environment for the entire industry to succeed, especially in fostering a pipeline of highly skilled workers. Among the top five, Arkansas ranked third, Wisconsin ranked fourth and Indiana ranked fifth. Rounding out the top 10 states are Iowa, Kentucky, Alabama, Oklahoma see ABC page 4