The city of Hartford, Conn., covers 17.3 sq miles and has a population of 125,000, making it the fourth-largest city in the Constitution State. As winters become longer and more crippling, the city must quickly respond to snow and ice removal for its residents, commuters and workers who account for a general metropolitan area of over 1.2 million people. Bob Umashankar, the city's civil engineer and project manager, recently concluded that instead of replacing a roof on the city's wooden salt shed, they would replace the building with a more sustainable solution. "Not only did the roof need to be replaced on the old structure, but we were looking for a larger area to store more material," Umashankar said.
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