Seminars
Sustainable Building Deconstruction
Date: February 27, 2009
Time: 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Location: IIT Rice Campus, Wheaton, IL
Daylong seminar by leading professionals and practitioners to introduce the concepts of deconstruction, its financial and environmental benefits, how it works, and case study examples.
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Sustainable Building Deconstruction
presented by HalfMoon Seminars
Agenda
Introductions and Opening Remarks
Session I
1. Introduction to Deconstruction (Dave Hampton, Hampton-Avery Architects)
Context: Why Deconstruction? Why Now?
Energy use
Embodied energy and lifecycle assessment of materials and buildings
Our buildings, our histories: adaptive reuse, historic preservation, renovation
Definitions
Who benefits?
Incentives
Environmental quality, competitive advantage pros and cons, LEED
Policies and best management practices
Role of design professionals: advocacy, rethinking the demo sheets, design for disassembly
Chicago perspectives
Case study: ReBuilding Exchange
Case Study – materials reuse: Jewish Reconstructionist Temple
2. Sourcing Materials from Deconstruction & Use of Reclaimed and Recycled Materials (Thomas Napier, US Army Corps of Engineers, CERL)
Reuse or recycle?
Types of buildings
Types of materials and systems & their market potential
Case study – hybrid hand-labor and mechanization: Ft. Lewis
Session II
3. Planning for Deconstruction (Dave Bennink, RE-USE Consulting)
Site assessment
Assessing health and environmental impacts
Permitting (Ken Ortiz, OBI Deconstruction/The ReUse People of America)
Chicagoland perspectives
Difference between municipalities
Waste reduction goals and waste management plan
Marketing & retail aspects
4. Deconstruction Methods/Techniques, Tools, and Safety (Dave Bennink)
Soft skimming
Manual to mechanical
Heavy construction
Removal of building assemblies
Complete deconstruction
Tools & Safety
5. Before and After (Dave Bennink)
Monitoring and documenting the deconstruction process
Case studies
6. The future of deconstruction and materials reuse (Dave Bennink)
Labor force and green jobs
Streamlining permitting
Increased viability of reclaimed materials
7. Closing remarks / Q&A