Great Lakes Building ReUse

DECON ‘09 It’s Time !

The Building Materials Reuse Association’s 2009 International Conference on Deconstruction, Building Materials Reuse, and Construction and Demolition Materials Recycling

April 28th–April 30th, 2009
The University of Illinois, Chicago Campus

It’s Time!

·TO LEARN about building deconstruction, materials reuse, and recycling
·TO TEACH others what you’ve learned about building deconstruction, materials [...]

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 [...]

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

I was watching the video footage on Mayor Jay Williams’ keynote address and he referred to a businessman in Youngstown who offers people in decrepit neighborhoods cash incentives to move out of their homes and move into fuller neighborhoods.  Mayor Williams said this guy has a business that takes apart steel mills (??deconstructs??).
After a little [...]