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Designers, contractors and nonprofits outline practical barriers and solutions for deconstruction: summit, case study and hackathons
Summary
Practitioners and nonprofit groups on May 13 told a MassDEP webinar that deconstruction and building-material reuse are growing but face persistent operational barriers — storage, mismatched markets and labor costs — even as local pilots and collaborative design efforts show practical ways forward.
Practitioners and nonprofit groups on May 13 told Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection webinar attendees that deconstruction and building-material reuse are gaining traction but face persistent operational barriers, especially storage, market development and labor.
Kristin Fritsch of Elkus Manfredi Architects summarized a four-hour reuse workshop held alongside Greenbuild that convened roughly 42 designers, contractors, developers and sustainability leads to identify visions, barriers and product feasibility for reuse. Participants ranked commonly salvaged products (furniture and interior items were ranked most feasible) and discussed incentives and policies needed to scale reuse beyond residential projects to commercial work.
Turner Construction project manager David Polanco presented a suburban 4,000-square-foot fit-out case study…
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