Great Lakes Building ReUse

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The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), provides a suite of standards for environmentally sustainable construction.

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The New York Upstate USGBC Chapter is pleased to announce that the following LEED workshop is coming to Buffalo:

Green Building Operations & Maintenance:  The LEED Implementation Process

Date:   Monday, March 30th, 2009
Time:  8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Location:  Center for Tomorrow, SUNY Buffalo - North Campus

This workshop is intended for building owners, facilities managers, building operators and maintenance professionals involved in implementing LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance (LEED EB-OM).  This is a Level 300 course, and required some prior knowledge of green buildings and the LEED Rating System.

Please visit http://www.greenbuild365.org/coursedetail.aspx?ID=90000263 for registration specifics and CEU credit information.  Registration includes online access to the LEED EB-OM Reference Guide, and a discounted price on the printed edition when ordered at registration.  Continental breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks will also be provided.

Seating is limited - register early!

Registration is now open on the Greenbuild 365 website: http://www.greenbuild365.org/coursedetail.aspx?ID=90000263

For all workshop inquiries, email workshop {at} usgbc(.)org or call 800-795-1747.

Remember:  USGBC National Members save on workshop registration fees.
Not a member yet?  Visit www.usgbc.org/membership for more information.

The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, published a blog entitled “Designing policy for ‘Homes that last’“:

The Winter 2009 issue of the community development journal Shelterforce examines at length a wide range of issues facing housing and community development practitioners in the current economic crisis.

Among the topics covered:  a critique of foundations’ response to the crisis by Rick Cohen, a call by Pablo Eisenberg to raise the foundation payout requirement from five to six percent, a policy proposal regarding the foreclosure crisis by Jim Carr of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a vision of a social housing policy by Peter Marcuse, and an analysis of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program by Peter Werwath.

All of these articles are well worth reading, but the focus here is on John Emmeus Davis’ article, which examines community land trusts and related forms of “shared equity” housing from the theoretical perspective of how society can create “homes that last.”
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To read the entire article click here.

Two of the attendees from GLR 2008 got together and took down a 2300 sq ft abandoned home using hybrid deconstruction in Cleveland, OH. RE-USE Consulting and Urban Lumberjacks of Cleveland (ULOC) used an average of seven workers for 4.5 days (8 hrs per day max.) in the darkest time of the year to deconstruct this 2.5 story building. They used another day and a half to finish cleaning up the site and denailing over 6500 board feet of flooring, framing and misc. 1x material.

This was only ULOC’s second home so congrats to them for a job well done. Thanks to Buffalo Reuse and the BMRA for putting on the conference.

Denailing at 19 deg. F

Tags: building deconstruction, Dave Bennink, Great Lakes Reuse, hybrid deconstruction, RE-USE Consulting, Urban Lumberjacks of Cleveland

Thanks to Kevin Hayes, manager of the ReSource (Buffalo ReUse’s warehouse and storefront), we now have an up and running blog on this site.

We will have several people with experience in deconstruction, architecture, policy implementation and community projects, writing on the blog.  We hope you will subscribe, read and keep the conversation going.