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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

When multiple stories of a Denver building collapsed during a deconstruction, the contractor knew it was happening. "I could feel the building, I saw the wind start to gust it, take it, that's when we ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – Spokane City Council will vote on an ordinance that would require developers to salvage materials from demolished historic buildings when erecting new structures. The ordinance ...