http://hayescreative.com/conf Regenerating Neighborhoods, Empowering Communities Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:55:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://hayescreative.com/conf/archives/171 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. --------- The New York Upstate USGBC Chapter is pleased to announce that the following LEED workshop is coming to Buffalo: Green Building Operations ... http://hayescreative.com/conf/archives/168 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 ... http://hayescreative.com/conf/archives/154 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 ... http://hayescreative.com/conf/archives/152 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 ... http://hayescreative.com/conf/archives/148 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 ... http://hayescreative.com/conf/archives/120 We have developed an interactive wiki site, we have retrieved feedback with survey monkey, we even have the discuss@greatlakesreuse.org listserv to keep things going.  With the holidays, and the excitement of the world’s changes, we have not seen much action in regards to planning a future conference. I hope that with ... http://hayescreative.com/conf/archives/118 We'd like to get to know you! Comment on this post and tell us about yourself - who you are, where you're from, why you're interested in building reuse, what projects you're planning or working on. http://hayescreative.com/conf/archives/113