Extreme Decon - http://www.djc.com/blogs/BuildingGreen/?p=1569
Green Collar Jobs - http://www.djc.com/blogs/BuildingGreen/?p=816
Support Your Local Metal Recycler - http://www.djc.com/blogs/BuildingGreen/?p=669
Betraying Our Zero Waste Mission - http://www.djc.com/blogs/BuildingGreen/?p=1417
Deconstructing For Flood Relief - http://www.djc.com/blogs/BuildingGreen/?p=1240
DECONSTRUCTION NEWS:
(We will be adding more entries soon)
3-10 Flood Recovery - Cedar Rapids - After harvesting 3 homes in just less than 5 days, we are left wondering whether the materials salvaged were contaminated by flood waters. Since this hadn't been studied yet, the reusable wood was recycled. This pilot project/training showed that we could have removed the homes in 4 days if they hadn't been in three separate locations, but instead had been on the same street.
http://gazetteonline.com/blogs/homegrown/2010/03/29/video-recycling-flooded-homes
2-10 Our Chicago green collar deconstruction job training program is underway, and one of our project teams has already received three thank you letters from their partnering reuse businesses. One of those businesses has already doubled the size of their operation as a result of this partnership. Our goal: create jobs and strengthen the entire building material reuse industry in the Chicagoland area.
http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/portalContentItemAction.do?blockName=Workforce+Development%2fI+Want+To&deptMainCategoryOID=&channelId=0&programId=0&entityName=Workforce+Development&topChannelName=Dept&contentOID=537055335&Failed_Reason=Invalid+timestamp,+engine+has+been+restarted&contenTypeName=COC_EDITORIAL&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&Failed_Page=%2fwebportal%2fportalContentItemAction.do&context=dept1-10 Traveling to Cedar Rapids to help after the Cedar River flooded homes. Over 1200 of them are now scheduled to be removed.
www.solidwasteagency.org/uploads/Contractor_RFQ.pdf
12-09 Thanks go out to The Window Magazine for this great article:
http://www.windowmagazine.org/window/index.php?section=Stories&id=109
11-09 Buffalo, NY
---------EXTREME DECONSTRUCTION: RE-USE Consulting on ABC's Extreme Home Makeover!---------
We were asked to fly out and help our client Buffalo Reuse deconstruct a 2500 sq ft home in 15hrs. The project was for the popular
TV show Extreme Makeover Home Edition and the episode will air in January or February, demonstrating the benefits of building material reuse
and building deconstruction in front of 31 million viewers. Nice job Michael Gainer and Buffalo Reuse. We were happy to help!
http://video.buffalonews.com/player/?id=341
10-09 Bend, OR - Not a project we helped with, but a great grass-roots effort and good outlook. Perhaps we will travel
there some day to help control costs and the time required.
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091101/BIZ0102/911010320/1002/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
9-09 New York - Battling demolition pricing in the trenches - RE-USE is trying to bring deconstruction to areas
where it has never been tried before, and sometimes that means changing our approach. We have decided
that saving less per building from the landfill is better than having deconstruction never take off in Binghamton
where we could all watch hundreds of buildings go straight to the dump. Note: areas like this have very few
recycling options due to cheap landfilling costs.
http://www.wicz.com/news2005/viewarticle.asp?a=10989#
http://www.cityofbinghamton.com/viewarticle.asp?a=3227
8-09 Washington State: Another Vashon Job turned into a fund-raiser for the school district. This is the
second school project in that district that we have helped with where the deconstruction and/or salvage work
has led to a donation back to the school district or PTA. Way to go Mitchell Contractors!
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/vashon/vib/news/56635337.html
7-09 Cincinnati news : RE-USE helps another city start deconstruction efforts
http://www.building-cincinnati.com/2009/08/areas-first-full-house-deconstruction.html
http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story/Cincinnati-Area-Sees-First-Green-House/Yc0Ce8Vz0k60PVRyuizy7A.cspx
6-09 WYTV Ohio - If we can deconstruct in Youngstown, we can deconstruct anywhere (only $11/ton disposal costs!)
http://www.wytv.com/content/news/local/story/Youngstown-Hopes-to-Deconstruct-Not-Demolish/M377IIKGi0yq_LyVqd9Cng.cspx
6-09 Business Journal Daily
http://www.business-journal.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=13943&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1711&hn=business-journal&he=.com
5-09 Seattle Times - Pacific Magazine
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2009252001_pacificpdecon24.html
4-09 WKBN TV Youngstown http://www.wkbn.com/content/news/local/story/Youngstown-Hopes-to-Deconstruct-Not-Demolish/M377IIKGi0yq_LyVqd9Cng.cspx
3-09 Sustainable Snohomish Co. http://sustainable-snohomish.blogspot.com/2009/03/leed-user-group-mtg-march-18.html
2-09 Press Connects http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20090221/NEWS01/902210356/1001/archive
WBNG NY State: http://www.wbng.com/news/local/40248567.html
1-09 KGMI radio
http://www.kgmi.com/Local-News/2983319?contentId=3396377
1-09 Cleveland's Plain Dealer newspaper
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/01/deconstruction_salvages_abando.html
12-08 Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/12/AR2008121201893.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/12/AR2008121201888.html
12-08 Daily Journal of Commerce blog
http://www.djc.com/blogs/BuildingGreen/tag/dave-bennink/
11-08 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08328/930106-53.stm
10-08 Seattle's Daily Journal of Commerce
http://djc.com/search/news.html?formact=search&date=&quick=true&searchlevel=basic&query=bennink
09-08 Construction Junction's eBlast
http://www.constructionjunction.org/eblasts/view/26
09-08 Pop City Journal
http://www.popcitymedia.com/developmentnews/cj0924.aspx?utm_campaign=Share%20the%20Road&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_term=Green%20%28un%29building%3A%20Pittsburgh%27s%20first%20hybrid%20deconstruction%20project%20underway
06-08 Forbes Magazine
http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/forbes/2008/0630/074.html?partner=whiteglove_google
1-08 Environmental Design + Construction
http://www.edcmag.com/Articles/Featured_Special_Sections/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000237958
11-07 Art Voice
http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n29/bringing_down_the_house
10-07 GreenSmart - Sustainable Building in the Northwest
http://greensmart.construction.com/features/archive/0710_Cover.asp
04-07 Buffalo Business Journal
http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2007/04/23/daily43.html
04-07 Orange County, NC
http://www.co.orange.nc.us/OCCLERKS/marapr07prsrls.htm
03-07 Remodeling Magazine
http://www.remodeling.hw.net/remodeling/deconstructing-the-future.aspx
12-06 Going Green at the Beach project website
www.goinggreenatthebeach.com/pdf/deconstruction.pdf
9-06 Orange County News
http://www.co.orange.nc.us/OCCLERKS/marapr07prsrls.htm
(more stories coming for this time frame)
03-1999 Klipsun Magazine
http://klipsun.wwu.edu/archives/march99/restore.html
Check out some of our residential client's sites at:
http://mukilteogreenremodel.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
RE-USE Consulting is a member of the Building Materials Reuse Association (BMRA), a non-profit organization educating the public on the value of reusing building materials from existing structures and it is the Country's leading authority on building deconstruction. The BMRA holds a national conference and is involved with many other green building events around the Country. (check them out at www.buildingreuse.org )
RE-USE News Archieves (from the Home Page):
11-08 RE-USE News...
New Page on our Site: RE-USE in the News
We are happy to report that the 2008 Great Lakes Building Reuse Conference was successful and that Buffalo Reuse and the BMRA had about 140 participants in the first year. RE-USE Consulting's full day workshop had about 40 in attendance. We also traveled to Cleveland and helped the local group Urban Lumberjacks of Cleveland hit a home-run. Despite many people losing interest in deconstruction in the area, we gave them a new perspective with the following:
1800 sq ft home - 2.5 stories - 4.75 crew members -
building down to foundation in 3.5 days - job complete in 5 days
If we had 6 people (recommended for the Three-Day Decon system to work efficiently), we would have had the building down in 3 days and cleaned up/processed in 4.
10-08 Training and Retraining..
RE-USE Consulting has recently trained many of the big names in deconstruction including: Buffalo Reuse, Construction Junction, Build It Green NYC, and more. What are you waiting for? Give us a call.
9-08 Nov. 19th, 2008 -Find out more: www.greatlakesreuse.org
We keep rolling - three buildings deconstructed in three weeks
totalling over 5100 sq ft. (in New Jersey and Pennslyvania). These were all part of our Three Day Decon training program as we attempt to help create hundreds of 'GREEN COLLAR JOBS' through building deconstruction efforts.
8-08 RE-USE Consulting Promotes Building Deconstruction Nationwide
RE-USE is helping put together the 2008 Great Lakes Building Reuse Conference in Buffalo, NY Nov. 16-18. We will also be offering a full-day workshop titled Designing a Project for Deconstruction on Nov. 19th after this event.
7-08 July was a huge month for RE-USE Consulting. We helped our clients take down 17,000 sq ft of structures:
2 garages, 2 homes, 1 interior decon project, 1 shed, 1 barn, 2 covered walkways, 5000 roof tiles, 800 sq ft deck
View from the deck (Beacon Rock in the Distance):
Find out about this jobsite at: www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/
6-08 RE-USE Consulting is in Forbes Magazine! The article got some of the numbers wrong so contact us to see why 8 out of the last 10 buildings we worked on were completed for less than estimates for demolition.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0630/074.html
5-08 RE-USE Consulting recently helped out on a Washington State Heritage Barn Program jobsite. We are hired to assist in the deconstruction of a 100+ yr old 15,000 sq ft barn so that the materials saved could be used to repair other heritage barns. Around 40,000 board feet of beams, etc. were saved!
4-08 RE-USE Consulting's project of the month - a 1918 7500 sq ft home in New Jersey with a 1500 sq ft garage. Our efforts on this single building will divert over a third of a million pounds of building materials from the landfill and save the owner over $20,000 compared to demolishing it!
3-08 Sign up for the Great Lakes Deconstruction Conference in Buffalo, NY Nov. 2008 - contact us for details or click here
2/08 - NOW OPEN IN Mt. Vernon, WA:
Skagit Building Salvage!
(see our Materials For Sale page for details)
1/08 - New website complete with bad grammar and other glitches - sorry too busy saving materials from the landfill to fix them. More site updates each week.
12/07 - RE-USE chosen to help with fully deconstructing 5 apartment buildings totaling over 54,000 sq ft.
11/07 - RE-USE helping plan a new reusable building materials store in Western Washington State!
10/07 - RE-USE interviewed on National Public Radio and is mentioned
in the NY Times
9/07 - RE-USE runs a salvage crew at ABC's Extreme Home Makeover project in Washington State
8/07 - RE-USE assists our client in labeling + panelizing the 1893 Richard R. White house prior to its move and reassembly on another site.
7/07 - Too long ago, can't remember. Oh yeah, RE-USE Consulting was runner-up for National Building Deconstructor of the Year - 2007!!
1. Site visit
2. Assessment
3. Set up sales
4. Deconstruct
5. Site clean up, paperwork, metrics
