<p>Kwame Building Group has been awarded a contract through Green Companies Inc. to provide design management support on a major landfill gas-to-energy project at the Fred Weber Company Solid Waste Landfill in Maryland Heights, Missouri. <br /><br />Construction is expected to begin in 2010, and the plant is expected to be operational in 2011. The Ameren UE Methane to Megawatts project will be the largest landfill gas-to-electric facility in the state and among the largest in the nation, generating enough electricity for 10,000 homes. <br /><br />Methane from the landfill will be delivered to combustion turbines through a blower plant that delivers 6,000 cubic feet of landfill gas per minute, 24 hours a day. The gas is collected through 120 landfill wells, which are plumbed and connected with two miles of high-density plastic pipe. <br /></p>