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But when the city of San Antonio reached out to her firm, Washington, D.C.-based PlaceEconomics, for help conducting a study on deconstruction — a process of carefully pulling apart buildings to ...

Although demolition appears to be the more economical option now, a Cornell professor believes deconstruction might be the better method after practices are fine-tuned and environmental benefits are ...

EDMONSTON, Maryland, April 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - T he cavernous Maryland warehouse housing Community Forklift bulges with doors, windows, flooring and light fixtures, some lightly used, ...

Two buckets. That’s all that was left at the end of the day when Nexii, a concrete alternative start-up, tore down one of its first demonstration projects. A 700-square-foot showroom and model home ...

Oliver Wainright of the Guardian calls for a rethink of the way we put buildings together and take them apart. "Ban Demolition" is a tag on TreeHugger because we have long argued for renovation and ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - Shifting from wasteful demolition practices to a circular construction economy in New York state could create thousands of green jobs and advance ambitious climate goals – while ...

More often than not, a building’s life cycle follows a take-make-waste approach. Extracted natural resources manufactured for construction materials frequently end up as waste that winds up in ...

Rice County introduces a Deconstruction program to encourage building material reuse and reduce landfill waste.

CONWAY, S.C. (WBTW) — Deconstruction has begun on one of the most historic buildings in Conway. The JT Henry building was built more than 60 years ago on Church Street, off Highway 50, but the lumber ...