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2 CEMENT AMERICAS • Winter 2016 • www.cementamericas.com CEMENTSCOPE PCA Announces Resilience Leadership Award Winners The Portland Cement Association (PCA) announced the 10 recipients of the inaugural 2016 Resilience Leader- ship Awards. The Resilience Leadership Awards recognize the individ- uals, organizations and projects that have advocated, communicated and showcased the benefits of durable construction and the importance of concrete in achiev- ing resilience. Winners practice their message in a vari- ety of arenas, including education, community organi- zation, construction and code enhancement. The inaugural award program coincides with the asso- ciation's centennial milestone, which will be celebrated throughout 2016. The 2016 Resilience Leadership Award winners are: • Individual Achievement: Dr. Ernst Kiesling. • Community Leadership: Cate Hart and Daniel Wallach. • New Public Buildings: Warren County Public Schools. • New Commercial Building: North Central College. • New Multifamily Building: Palermo Vista (Fleet Financial/Oakwood Construction and Development). • New Residential Building, Gold Level: John Hoffman. • New Residential Building, Silver Level: Green- hill Contracting. • New Residential Building, Silver Level: Marie Quakenbush. • New Safe Room Construction: Boy Scouts of America, Heart of America Council (H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation). The Buzzi Unicem cement plant near Greencastle, Ind., is under investigation by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management for the dumping of more than 300 tons of wastewater treatment filter cake intended for use as an alternative raw material in the cement kiln, reported the Tribune-Star. Buzzi Unicem USA corporate officials said that ground- water contamination due to improperly dumped waste is unlikely at the company's Greencastle facility. The material was not dumped near groundwater sources, Daniel Nugent of Buzzi Unicem USA said, and did not contaminate surface water collected in ponds and quarries on the site. IDEM is still investigating the unauthorized dumping, which was reported to IDEM by company employees. IDEM public information officer Barry Sneed told the Tribune-Star that the company does have a restrict- ed waste site landfill that is permitted to receive only cement kiln dust generated by the facility. The company also has an alternative fuel registration for non-hazardous solid wastes that are burned to pow- er the kiln, and a permit to store alternate raw materi- als, or ARM, as substitutes for the components neces- sary to make cement. Buzzi Unicem Plant Investigated Over Wastewater Treatment FLSmidth has three new orders at cement plants in Can- ada, Colombia and Bolivia. The company was awarded a contract for an OK 30-4 cement vertical mill for Lehigh Hanson Materials to meet the increasing demand for cement in Canada. The mill will be installed at Lehigh Hanson's Edmonton, Alberta, plant. Additional scope of supply includes a cement powder cooler, related pro- cess engineering, and site advisory and commissioning services. Commissioning is scheduled to be completed in the second quarter of 2017. Meanwhile, Colombian market leader Cementos Argos contracted FLSmidth to supply an OK 33-4 cement mill system at the Sogamoso cement plant, in the Depart- ment of Boyacá, Colombia. This contract marks the fourth OK mill purchased by Argos. The mill system will include cement storage, Ventomatic packing plant, MAAG gear, Airtech filters, and auxiliary equipment. The project is expected to be commissioned in the third quarter of 2017. The third contract is from Sociedad Boliviana de Cemen- to, which ordered an OK 36-4 cement grinding system for its Viacha cement plant, outside La Paz, Bolivia. The scope of supply includes cement grinding system equipment, engineering and site advisory services. This FLSmidth Awarded Contracts by Lehigh Hanson, Cementos Argos