decon '16 conference program

FEBRUARY 29 - MARCH 2, 2016 RALEIGH, NC

Conference Guide

February 29 - March 2, 2016The Building Material Reuse Association’s Conference on deconstruction, building materials reuse, and C&D recycling.

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Table of Contents:

About the BMRA 3

General Information 4

Special Events 4

Keynote Presenters 5

Schedule Overview 6

Educational Sessions, Monday 2/29: 9

Educational Sessions, Tuesday 3/1 14

Educational Sessions, Wednesday 3/2 20

Guided Tours, Wednesday March 2nd 22

Post-Conference OSHA 10 Course 22

What’s Next? 23

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About the BMRAThe Building Materials Reuse Association (BMRA) is a 501 c3 non-profi t educational and research organization whose mission is to advance the recovery, reuse and recycling of building materials in

such a way as to:

- Reduce the consumption of new resources

- Avoid landfi ll waste and pollution

- Create an added-value market and increase cost effectiveness

- Expand job opportunities and workforce development skills

- Promote the sustainability of communities and the environment through resource preservation and conservation

The objectives of the BMRA are to foster communication and networking, education, and research to further the mission. Providing opportunities for Members and other interested parties to facilitate dialogue, connect with each other and network, and receive informative and educational materi-als all of which are designed to increase these parties’ knowledge and understanding of deconstructing and re-using building materials; Educat-ing the general public, institutional and governmental bodies about:

- benefi ts of deconstructing buildings for reuse and recycling,

- ways that used building materials may stimulate economic activity via new markets and job creation while also promoting environmental benefi ts,

- certifi cations and standards that may be required to participate in the used building materials industry safely and in environmentally responsible ways, including the possible administration of certifi cation programs and awarding certifi cation marks pursuant to rating standards;

- Conducting research and creating new knowledge that enhances the BMRA’s Educational and Environmental Mission.

BMRA Board of Directors & Staff

Chris Rutherford (Chair) Architectural Salvage Warehouse of Detroit – Detroit, MI

Jim Schulman (Treasurer) Regional Architect – Washington, DC

Alli Kingfi sher (Secretary) Washington State Department of Ecology – Spokane, WA

Pam Howland, Old Window Workshop – Springfi eld, MA

Ruthie Mundell, Community Forklift – Hyattsville, MD

Tom Napier, US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, retired – Champaign, IL

Patrick Smith, NoVaStar Appraisals – Fredericksburg, VA

Sean Vissar, The Green Project – New Orleans, LA

Bryant Williams, The Rebuilding Exchange – Chicago, IL

Staff

Anne Nicklin, Executive Director – Chicago, IL

BMRA Products and Publications

Introduction to Deconstruction – Textbook

Designated Deconstructor Credential

Comprehensive Introduction to Deconstruction Training Curriculum (100 hours)

Decon for Demo Contractors Project Management Course (24 hours)

Reusewood.org

Deconstruction Specifi cation

GHG Calculator

Monthly Newsletter

Policy How-To Manual

Annual Industry Survey

Safety Training

Decon Expo Conference

Bmra.org website and library

Become a Member

The BMRA is a membership organization, supported by individuals and organizations across the US and Canada. We offer memberships for students, individuals, small companies and large businesses. Anyone who is interested in reducing waste, advancing deconstruction, and supporting sustainable economies will benefi t from membership in the BMRA.

Members enjoy discounts on all BMRA events and publications, access to an extensive library of deconstruction and reuse resources, featured listings in the bmra.org directory, and the opportunity to help shape the development and growth of the reused building materials industry.

Wondering if membership is right for you? Grab one of the many BMRA Members here at the conference and let them tell you why membership is important to them. You can sign up at the front desk, or online at www.bmra.org.

Contact Us

We can be reached via email or by phone: 773-340-BMRA (773-340-2672) email: [email protected], or in person at our offi ce: 4410 N. Ravenswood Ave. #105 Chicago, IL 60640

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General InformationLocation of Events

Registration, educational sessions, and the vendor’s area will be held in the Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln rooms on the 2nd fl oor / mezzanine of the Hilton Doubletree Brownstone Hotel (1707 Hillsborough St, Raleigh, NC 27605). The Opening Reception will be held at Habitat for Humanity Wake County Restore (2420 Raleigh Blvd, Raleigh, NC 27604). The Awards Reception will be held at the Harvest Grill, located within the Hilton Hotel. The OSHA 10 Training class will be held at Habitat for Humanity Wake County. (2420 Raleigh Blvd, Raleigh, NC 27604)

Continuing Education Credits

The Decon ’16 conference has been curated to provide informative and educational resources for professionals in the building design, construc-tion, and removal industries and in an explicitly non-commercial environ-ment. Due to the diversity of attendees at the conference, and the range of different professional associations that they belong to, it’s not feasible to provide direct reporting to each individual organization.

For those organizations that allow self-reporting of educational credits, this conference guide is available online for ease of submission to each organization.

For further information, please visit:

http:/www.aia.org/education/ces/index.htm

http://www.usgbc.org/credentials#maintaining

mailto: [email protected]

Special EventsDecon ’16 Welcome Reception @ Raleigh Restore

Sunday 2/28 5:00 – 7:00 pm

Habitat for Humanity Wake County will be hosting a welcome reception for all Decon ’16 attendees and their guests on Sunday evening 2/28 from 5-7pm. This gathering featuring soft drinks and light snacks is a great op-portunity to catch up with your friends and colleagues, while enjoying tour of their 40,000 ft2 facility.

BMRA Special Members Meeting

Tuesday March 1st, 3:30 – 5:00 pm

We’ve scheduled a special member’s meeting to coincide with Decon ’16, taking advantage of the opportunity for a face to face meeting. This meeting is open to the public, and we welcome everyone attending the conference to share in the proceedings, though voting will be limited to BMRA Members.

Major Items up for discussion are:

Launch of the Appraisal Resource Sheet- This listing of the relevant agen-cies, statutes and professional associations has been compiled for free distribution to our members, and at a cost of $25 to non-members.

Discussion and voting on future involvement in the appraisal practice. This is an opportunity for the members to review the wide range of pro-posals and have a direct hand in determining the future of the BMRA in this area.

Launch of the First Annual Industry Survey – Selections from the initial results will be released at the meeting, along with a call for all members to commit to completing the survey on an annual basis.

Bylaw changes – a number of edits are proposed for the BMRA bylaws ranging from small edits, updates to the offi cer positions, and added sec-tions to refl ect the staffi ng of the organization.

Tour of NC-State’s Harrelson Hall Deconstruction

Site

Tuesday March 1st, 5:00 – 6:00 pm

Decon ’16 attendees have a unique opportunity to visit the deconstruc-tion site of NC-State’s Harrelson Hall and hear about the unique chal-lenges and opportunities of this site directly from the project team. North Carolina’s Harrelson Hall is a 109,953 ft2 steel and concrete building that is being fully deconstructed with materials redistributed on campus and regionally. This 1962 building has already diverted 23 tons towards reuse during the non-structural salvage, and is currently in the asbestos abatement phase, with full structural deconstruction slated for May, 2016. This is a great opportunity to talk directly with the team taking down a large scale non-wood structure, and learn from their successes and chal-lenges. Shuttle bus will depart from the Hilton at 5:00 pm.

Decon ’16 Awards Reception @ Harvest Grille

Tuesday, March 1st, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

At each conference, the Building Materials Reuse Association takes the opportunity to recognize individuals and organizations that have demonstrated signifi cant commitment to building material reuse and/or deconstruction, and to the BMRA as an institution. The awards will be presented during this evening reception featuring light appetizers and a hosted bar.

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Keynote PresentersEverything is Possible. Stories of de-constructable

buildings, recycled wood and companies that can

thrive doing so

Monday February 29th, 9:00 am – 10:00 am

It’s an amazing time to be in our world of thoughtful building practices that can promote environmentally sensitive and often creative and

beautiful structures. Jonathan will address how buildings can be built with the past, the present and the future all in the program. The past, in thoughtful reclamation of material; the present, with design and construction principles that address both the client’s needs and the building’s energy profi les; and the future, with buildings that last much longer, have a resulting smaller carbon footprint, and can offer some opportunity for recyclability when their time comes.

Jonathan Orpin is the President of the Timber Framers Guild, which sup-ports the craft, science and the business of timber framing. Its members come from every state and province of the US and Canada and several additional countries. The Guild sponsors community projects, workshops and gatherings, a yearly conference which shares all aspects of timber framing, the only Department of Labor certifi ed heavy timber apprentice-ship, and numerous other activities. (tfguild.org.) In addition, Jonathan is the President of Pioneer Millworks, which over its 25 years in business has recycled more than 25 million board feet of wood, and New Energy Works Timber framers. Combined, these companies employ 130 members, have shops in NY and OR, and work hard to use the Triple Bottom Line of People, Profi t and Planet as their guiding business principle

Rotor Deconstruction

Tuesday March 1st, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Founded in 2005, Rotor is a group of architects, designers and other professionals interested in material fl ows in industry and construction, particu-larly in relation to resources, waste, use and reuse. Rotor disseminates creative strategies for salvage and waste reduction through workshops, publica-tions, and exhibitions. They represented Belgium at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennial in 2010. Their exhibition, Usus Usures explored wear as a reaction to use in architecture and as potentially creative process. For the Prada Foundation, Milan, they curated ex limbo, an installation of OMA designs for the Prada catwalk. The same year, 2011, they curated and designed the OMA/Progress show in the Barbican Art Gallery in London, an overview of the work of Rem Kool-haas’s Offi ce for Metropolitan Architecture, while in 2013 they curated the Oslo Architecture Triennale, including a vast exhibition on the challenges facing ’sustainable’ architecture today, Behind the Green Door.

Rotor’s approach consistently—and very often visually—emphasizes the effects of human planning, oversight, and extended use on the built environment. In parallel with these exhibition projects, Rotor continued to realize various design projects, often interventions in existing architecture. This work has its equivalent in a growing series of deconstruction projects in which Rotor oversees the dismantlement of building components, in buildings slated for demolition, for reuse purposes. These dismantling and reselling activities are conducted under the heading of Rotor Deconstruc-tion, a separate, spin-off entity created in 2014. It is specialized in the dismantling of large-scale offi ce interiors.

Maarten Gielen is a founding member of the collective Rotor where he currently works as designer, manager and researcher. At Rotor he col-laborated on exhibition projects including OMA/ Progress (Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2011), Usus/Usures (Belgian pavilion at the 2010 Ven-ice Architecture Biennale), or Ex Limbo (Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2011). In 2012 he was appointed visiting professor in the HEAD in Geneva. In 2014 he curated together with Lionel Devlieger the Oslo Architecture Trien-nale. In 2015 he was awarded with the Rotterdam-Maaskant prize.

This keynote presentation is made possible through the support of Archeworks, a Chicago-based multidisciplinary design school with a social agenda.

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Monday 2/29/16

Jefferson/Washington Room Lincoln Room Roosevelt Room

8:00-8:30 Breakfast / Arrival / Check In

8:30 - 10:00

Conference Opening & WelcomeScott Mouw, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality

Keynote: Everything is Possible. Stories of de-constructable buildings, recycled wood and companies that can thrive doing so

10:00 - 10:15

Traffi c / Break

10:15 - 11:15

Spotlight on North Carolina - Speakers Gathered by NC DEQGustavo-Ocoro- Ocoro Enterprises – deconstruction service

provider Sandy Brady- EarthStone Products – recycles salvaged

granite pieces into pavers.Kevin Reily - Reily Recovery – Vinyl siding recovery

Harvesting the Value from Salvaged Lumber, Kinley Deller (King County, WA)

If I had a hammer: The role of local government regulation in building material reuse, Deborah Stone

(Cook County, IL)

11:15 - 11:30

Traffi c / Break

11:30 - 12:30

Participatory Workshop, A Cooperative-ly-Owned Deconstruction BusinessErich Kruger (Deconstruction Works)

Promoting Wood Reuse in North America, Heather Stegner (American Wood Council),

Anne Nicklin (BMRA)

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Material Reuse and Recycling in the Midwest, Susan

Vescovi (EPA Region V)

Zero Wood Construction Waste is Possible in Home Building, Phil Araman

Scaling Up: Government Deconstruction Contracts in Baltimore, Jeff Carroll (DE-

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 2:30

Deconstruction before demolition, Rochelle Sibbhio (Habitat for Humanity)

Salvage Assessments in Seattle: Refl ecting on a Policy Tool to Increase Building Material

Recovery, Dirk Wassink (Second Use), Pat Finn Coven (Ballard Reuse), Joel Blaschke, Kinley

Deller (King County)

Sustainable Business Models in the Reuse Industry. Dave Bennink (Re-Use Consulting)

2:30 -2:45 Traffi c / Break

Community reuse Center, Diane Cohen (Fingerlakes Reuse) A Perfect Storm and the Path of Decon-

struction in Portland, Shawn Wood (City of Portland), Bryce Jacobson (Portland Metro)2:45 - 3:45

The Reuse Solution, Kyle Fitzgerald (The

3:45 - 4 Traffi c / Break

4:00 - 5:00 BMRA product launch and participatory workshop: Policies to Support Building Materials Recovery and Reuse: A How To Guide, Dirk Wassink (Second Use), Anne Nicklin (BMRA), Jim

Schulman (Regional Architect), Alli Kingfi sher (WA State Dept of Ecology)

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Tuesday 3/1/16

Jefferson/Washington Room Lincoln Room Roosevelt Room


8:30 - 10:00

Donations of Building Materials, Molly Samietz

Paul Bielicki, The Present and Future State of Disposable Buildings in the US.

Partnering with the right appraisal fi rm: Deconstruction experience counts, Patrick

Smith (NoVaStar Appraisals)

A sustainable model for the deconstruction of precast buildings, Azzeddine Oudjehane, Christopher Raghubar

Standardization of Transposing Products to Materials in Building Deconstruction, Lorena Machado-Fortuna, Vasil

Diyamandoglu (City College NY)

10:00 - 10:15 Traffi c / Break

10:15 - 11:15

Jillian Cain - Participatory Work-shop - Designing the right-sized deconstruction program for your

HfH ReStore

Added Value TrackTim Snyder (Woodcraft Magazine)

Transforming Waste into Community Wealth, Scott Boylston (Emergent Structures)

Chris Rutherford (Architectural Salvage Warehouse of Detroit)

James Ball: The Circular Economy at Scale

11:30 - 12:30 Keynote: Rotor Deconstruction, presented by Archeworks

12:15 - 1:15 Lunch

1:15 - 2:15

Spread the Word, Not the Dust: Demolition, Decon-struction, and Health,

Erin Kelly, Brad Guy, Regina Roy

The Community Garden as a Site of Material and Social Transformation, Tobiah Horton,

What’s in This Stuff? Ingredient Disclosure and the Commercial Marketplace, Kimberley Lombardozzi Univerity of Georgia Material Reuse Program, Chris

McDowell

2:15-2:30 Traffi c / Break

2:30-3:30

Reuse Retail, Mike Gable (Construction Junction) Participatory Workshop: Crossing the Atlantic

a charette on deconstruction, Dan Bergsagel (AKT II)Paint Reuse and Recycling, ,

Sean Vissar (The Green Project)


3:45-5:00BMRA Members Meeting, presentation of market survey, bylaw changes, votes on appraisal proposals.

5:00 - 6:00 Off site tour of Harrelson Hall deconstruction site at NC State

6:00 - 8:00 Awards Ceremony and Reception

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Wednesday 3/2/16

Jefferson/Washington Lincoln Room Roosevelt Room


8:30 - 9:30

USGBC Emerging Profession-als, participatory workshop and

hackathon: Using reclaimed materials to support a community

organization,

Workforce Development - BMRA’s Designated Deconstructor Credential & Training Resources

Barry Stup - Setting up your added value wood workshop


9:45 - 10:45

Lessons from a Startup Deconstruction Job Training Nonprofi t, Greg Trainor (Philadelphia

Community Corps)

Deconstruction and C&D Waste Reduction in WWII-Era Army Buildings, Jorge Flores-Davila

Old Windows, New Jobs, Pam Howland (Old Window Workshop)

Diverting More Construction and Demolition Waste from Your Renovation Project, (Armstrong

10:45 - 11;00 Traffi c / Break

11:00 - 12:00

Maximizing Community Partnership through Reuse, Mike Gable (Construction Junction)

Workshop- Introduction to Building Information Modeling (BIM) and how to use it - Juanita

GarciaThe Synergy between Workforce Training in Deconstruction and Reuse Warehouses,

Lou Dickson, (Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse)

12:15-12:30 Conference Close

12:30 - 5:00 Local Tours:We have set up two tours, one that will stay in Raleigh, and one that will go to Durham. Cost: $50 per person. A boxed lunch will be provided and all transportation is included. Advance reservation is preferred, tickets will also be available at the conference. Raleigh Area TourOur fi rst stop will be Green Square, a LEED platinum building that serves as the offi ce space for the NC Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The tour will entail a behind the scenes view of the sustainable features and elements including reclaimed materials incorporated into the building design.The second stop on the tour will be The Habitat for Humanity of Wake County ReStore. Grossing over 3 million dollars last fi scal year, the Restore helps to raise funds to build homes for hardworking families in Wake County. We’ll tour the sales fl oor as well as back door operations.The fi nal stop on the tour will be an active residential deconstruction site for Habitat Wake’s Deconstruction Program. Being a live site, we will safely tour the deconstruction project in process.

Durham Area TourThe fi rst stop will be the American Tobacco Campus, a national historic district of former tobacco factories that have successfully rede-veloped to house production studios, a performing arts center, restaurants, offi ces, a baseball stadium and more. This adaptive reuse project has successfully incorporated salvaged materials throughout the buildings and landscaping.Second stop will be The Scrap Exchange, Durham’s outstanding Creative Reuse Center. This 20,000+ sq.ft of warehouse, retail, workshop and gallery space has been a national model of creative reuse for more than twenty-fi ve years.The fi nal stop on the tour will be The Reuse Warehouse, a reclaimed and architectural salvage operation in Durham. Their retail operations, reclaimed lumber sales, and on-site workshop will be available for the tour.

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Educational Sessions, Monday

2/29:Session2: Spotlight on Raleigh – Durham

This presentation has been curated by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, and will highlight the innovative reuse and recycling businesses in the area. Presenters include

• Gustavo-Ocoro- Ocoro Enterprises – deconstruction service provider (whole houses, small commercial buildings, commercial remodels and barns).

• Sandy Brady- EarthStone Products – recycles salvaged granite pieces into pavers.

• Kevin Reily - Reily Recovery – Vinyl siding recovery (and other plastics)

Session 3: Harvesting the Value from Salvaged

Lumber

This presentation will summarize the public/private partnership which de-veloped in King County to capture higher value captured in salvaged wood without inherently downgrading the value of larger timbers. The effort, better known as the Salvaged Lumber Warehouse, pulls salvaged lumber from the greater Puget Sound area into one location where it can be ef-fi ciently processed, graded and inventoried into a range of fi nal products from whole timbers to small blanks. A look will be given to both material sourcing and fi nal markets.

Presenters: Kinley Deller - King County Green Tools, Seattle, WA

Conference Track: Added Value / Refi nishing, Job Training / Workforce Development, Commercial Markets, Community Partnerships, Business Partnerships, Circular Economy, Auctions / Materials Sales / Brokerage, Grading / Remanufacturing, C&D Recycling

Audience Level: Advanced / Intermediate

Session 3: If I had a hammer: role of local govern-

ment regulation in building material reuse

Cook County, IL as an example of how local government can play a role in the market cycle of building material recycling and reuse.

Presenters: Deborah Stone is the Chief Sustainability Offi cer and Direc-tor, Department of Environmental Control, Cook County, Illinois. Deborah became the County’s fi rst Sustainability Offi cer in 2011. Cook County is ahead of target in its goal to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions from building energy use by 80% by 2040. She is Director of the Cook County Department of Environmental Control which regulates air emissions and solid waste facilities, and works with local communities to clean up and redevelop brownfi elds. Projects include an award-winning ordinance fostering recycling/reuse of building demolition debris, and a grant from the United States Department of Energy to foster community solar energy in the region. She also teaches environmental economics at DePaul University, and building materials recycling and reuse at the Urban Plan-

ning and Policy graduate program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As Deputy Director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources she oversaw the State’s fi rst water supply planning and spearheaded Con-servation Congress, a working partnership of hundreds of recreation and natural resources constituent groups. As Director, Illinois Nature Preserves Commission, she helped landowners protect natural lands. As Executive Director at the Metropolitan Planning Council, she broadened programs in housing, transit and walkable development to a regional scale. M.A., University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, B.A. in Sociology and Philosophy, Beloit College (WI).

Conference Track: Code Compliance, Community Partnerships, Circular Economy, C&D Recycling, Policy

Audience Level: Beginner / Introductory

Session 4: Participatory Workshop: A Cooperative-

ly-Owned Deconstruction Business

Business models based on non-profi t or for-profi t status are common, but fewer exercised options exist for employee ownership or co-operative structures. An engaged workforce with a fi nancial stake in the re-use business and decision-making authority may remain more responsive and stable over time.

Seeding the growth of member co-operatives into the re-use business fi lls a valuable niche between whole-house deconstruction customers and the marketplace or re-use store.

At the conclusion of the presentation, participants will be able to:

• Identify and compare different business models (examining incorporation status, employee status, and procedures for disposition of materials generated).

• List strengths and liabilities for each model presented.

• Evaluate which model meets your needs.

Presenters: Erich Kruger was the founder, and former executive director, of ReNew Building Materials & Salvage in Brattleboro, Vermont. Erich has also been a consultant to, and Deconstruction Program Coordinator for, Finger Lakes ReUse in Ithaca, New York. Erich has 15 years of carpentry experience in the for-profi t sector, and 11 years deconstruction project management experience in the non-profi t and co-operative sectors. Erich is an EPA RRP-Certifi ed Renovator, a Massachusetts Licensed Construc-tion Supervisor, and has completed an earlier version of the BMRA deconstruction training program as well as many OSHA classes. Erich lives in Vermont in a self-built straw bale house with stand-alone solar power

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and humanure toilet. He stays quite warm in the winter with a masonry wood heater.

Tom Shea has been involved in environmental conservation and build-ing trades during his entire career. Upon graduation in 1995 from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a degree in Natural Resource Law and Policy, he worked for the better part of ten years with a variety of state, local, federal, and non-profi t organizations throughout the coun-try, designing and building recreation trail systems. Tom started calling Vermont home in 2001 and currently lives with his twin daughters in Central Vermont. Once in Vermont, he began working as an environmental consultant, specializing in erosion and sediment control on large commer-cial construction sites. He has completed many stream and watershed restoration projects throughout Vermont. From 2010 – 2013 Tom served as an operations director for a Burlington based non-profi t ReSOURCE, where he was responsible for the management of, and staff development for, their deconstruction program. While at ReSOURCE Tom fi ne-tuned his management and deconstruction skills, for which he has always had passion. Tom is also an EPA RRP-Certifi ed Renovator, holds an OSHA 30 card, and is a BMRA Master Trainer.

Conference Track: Job training / workforce development, business partner-ships, community partnerships, business development / contracting, retail sales

Audience Level: Advance / Intermediate

Session 5: Zero Wood Construction Waste is Pos-

sible in Home Building

Construction waste represents a signifi cant portion of landfi ll waste, estimated as 17% of the total waste stream. Estimates on the amount of wood construction waste for a typical 2000 square foot single fam-ily home is over 5000 lbs. including 3000 lbs. of solid-sawn wood, and 1500 lbs. of engineered wood products (EWP). Most of the solid- sawn lumber and EWPs can be recycled. Through a partnership with Green Valley Builders (Blacksburg, VA), an EarthCraft House certifi ed builder, the authors have studied their wood construction waste and recycling options.

EarthCraft House and other certifi cation systems such as the National Green Building Standard ICC-700 and LEED for Homes encourage and reward recycling. Wood products studied included solid-sawn lumber, oriented strand board, particleboard, LVL, and preservative treated wood. Wood waste was collected for each house during the construc-tion process. The waste was measured, weighed and sorted according to material type and size. Potential uses included fi nger-jointing to produce non-structural stud material or sill plates, web material in open web fl oor trusses, temporary stair treads and risers, shelving, pallet parts, and fi nger jointed panels for sheathing. Grinding would be used to convert smaller pieces to mulch and fuel. Zero wood waste is possible. Data for 15 homes, a short description of the development, the recycling options

and how these activities are rewarded with points by the green building systems will be presented. As part of the studies, remanufactured wood waste was donated to a Habitat Re-Store for resale.

Why Relevant: As part of many green building systems there are point incentives to recycle home construction building materials waste. This reduces landfi lling and is the right thing to do, but it is also very new to the housing industry. Ours is a controlled, third party research study to de-scribe the wood waste by product type and determine recycling and reuse options. Options include solid-wood products and mulch from grinding. Builders using EarthCraft and other systems can use our results at the job.

Learning Objectives:

1. Get a brief tour of an EarthCraft House development pursuing ZERO WOOD WASTE

2. Understand the certifi cation rules and points for recycling wood con-struction waste.

3. Get solid information on OSB, structural lumber, EWP, treated wood, and other wood product waste.

Presenters: Phil Araman - Research Team Leader, US Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Utilization of Southern Forest Resources, Blacksburg, VA

Conference Track: Grading / Remanufacturing, Habitat for Humanity, Academic Research


Session 5: Promoting Wood Reuse in North America

Wood is a renewable and versatile raw material that is used for construc-tion, furnishings, furniture, food handling, packaging, pallets and transport applications, and a host of other uses. At the end of its fi rst life, wood or a wood based product can be reused, recycled or used as carbon-neutral biomass energy. To encourage more reuse and recycling of wood products, the American and Canadian Wood Councils have partnered with the Building Materials Reuse Association to develop a searchable North American database, presented to users as the Reuse Wood Directory, outlining reuse and recycling options opportunities for wood products. Recognizing the importance of sustainability, this online directory and in-formation guide seeks to support the design/construction community and others in their reuse and recycling efforts for wood. Both recycling and reuse strategies help divert materials from waste streams and further help reduce the need for landfi ll space. Perhaps most importantly, increasing these activities can provide second lives for products that do not yet need to be disposed. This session will address the development of this online resource, as well as provide practical tips for using it to promote your business and fi nd new markets.

Presenters: Heather Stegner is the American Wood Council’s Senior Director, Communications where she leads strategic communications and social media. Heather led the public roll-out of the Reuse Wood Direc-tory and website, which included online promotion and traditional media outreach. She is based in Washington, D.C. and has experience working with media, associations and Fortune 50 companies. AWC is the voice

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of North American wood products manufacturing, representing over 75 percent of an industry that provides approximately 400,000 men and women in the United States with family-wage jobs.

Anne Nicklin is the Executive Director of the Building Materials Reuse Association overseeing all day to day operations and strategic growth for the organization. Prior to taking on her current role, Anne had more than 10 years of experience providing sustainable architecture and construc-tion consulting services within the academic, residential and commercial sectors. Anne received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin and a Masters of Architecture from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Conference Track: C&D Recycling, Circular Economy, International Markets, Added Value / Refi nishing, Community Partnerships


Target Audience: Deconstruction Service Providers, Reuse Stores / Retail-ers, Brokers, Demolition Companies

Session 6: Demolition and Deconstruction Ap-

proaches in the Midwest

This presentation will highlight the collaborative approach taken by USEPA Region 5 towards encouraging deconstruction and material reuse and recycling across the Midwest. Region 5 has been working across divi-sions, with local agencies and stakeholders to development tools such as the Residential Demolition Bid Specifi cation Tool and the Deconstruc-tion Rapid Assessment Tool. These tools emphasize best management practices during demolition/deconstruction projects and hope to facilitate deconstruction into large scale demolition projects. In addition to discuss-ing the work currently being done in Region 5, this presentation will also touch on the national EPA Sustainable Material Management program and future work focused on the Built Environment.

Presenter: Susan Vescovi is an Environmental Engineer at the United State Environmental Protection Agency in Region 5 located in Chicago. Cur-rently Susan oversees the Region’s effort to encourage greener demolition deconstruction practices. This work includes engaging Midwestern target communities dealing with blight and large scale demolitions, developing tools to help this process become easier and cleaner, and identifying markets for recycled and reused building material. Susan has been part of the national EPA discussion of incorporating sustainability principles into standards and codes related to the built environment. In addition to this work, Susan manages food waste reduction initiatives through recruit-ing organizations to join the EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge and oversee-ing related grant efforts. Prior to this role, Susan managed state permitting required under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and assisted with analysis related to Environmental Justice issues associated with the permitting of these facilities.

Conference Track: Practice


Session 6: Scaling Up, Government Deconstruction

Contracts in Baltimore

We have a fascinating project going on here in Baltimore that has allowed us to take deconstruction to scale in a way I don’t believe it has been done. We won a competitive process to do a deconstruction pilot with Baltimore. We completed deconstructing 100 vacant houses with spe-cifi c reclamation goals agreed upon with the City. The Mayor of Baltimore was so pleased with the results of the pilot, she has made deconstruction a permanent part of the City’s means of taking down buildings. A new solicitation went out for a master contract (3 years) to deconstruction ap-proximately 200 houses per year and we won that contract on a competi-tive bid. We are also vying for an opportunity to bid on a State initiative to remove an additional 1000 houses per year of which it is possible 250 per year will be deconstructed.

The downstream story has become just as interesting. We reclaimed 500,000 bricks last year and will double that in the coming year. We have reclaimed 100,000 BF of lumber and will double that also. I would love to have the opportunity to tell this story and lessons learned. It would make a great discussion where people can ask questions about the advocacy, public private partnership, educating the public and politi-cians, costs and how we paid for it, processes, best practices, and the hope for going to scale.

Presenter: Jeff Carroll, Executive Director – DETAILS, a division of Hu-manim, Baltimore, MD

Session 7: Deconstruction BEFORE Demolition

HFH Summit County engaged in deconstruction work just over 4 years ago as a pilot project with the City of Akron to reclaim four homes and show that construction materials could be resold, recycled, and scrapped ef-fectively. Since then we have engaged in a contract with the City of Akron for 200 homes each year over the last two years, Summit County Land Bank for 200 homes just this year and worked with several other govern-ment entities in Summit County to reclaim homes slated for demolition. Additionally, we have increased the number of private projects completed with owners who are gutting or tearing down a home to make room for something new to be built. Our ReStore and scrap

revenue have increased over $100,000 a year with the materials and in 2015 we entered an agreement with a privately held company to purchase the dimensional lumber reclaimed from the homes to be used to make furniture. At this point, HFH Summit County, Ohio is doing more deconstruction work than any other Habitat affi liate across the country.

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Not only do we want to share it with Habitat affi liates but we have created a model that works under a contract and/or indemnity waiver where we are paid for the service and the items reclaimed become revenue.

Presenters: Rochelle Sibbio joined Habitat for Humanity of Summit County in June 2006. She holds a bachelor’s degree in secondary education and a master’s degree in technical education with a concentra-tion in community counseling from the University of Akron. Rochelle has worked in the nonprofi t fi eld for over 20 years. During this time she has increased her knowledge in nonprofi t management and fundraising. She also holds a Certifi cate in Fund Raising Management from The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and a Certifi cate from the Institute for Nonprofi ts at North Carolina State University. Rochelle has worked collaboratively with the board of trustees to grow the organization from an annual operating budget of $600,000 to over $3,500,000 a year. The growth included a $2 million capital campaign to move the organization into a 67,000 sq. ft. facility in Akron, the 2nd largest Habitat size opera-tion in Ohio. The programming has also changed exponentially including building more new homes per year than ever in Summit County, an A Brush With Kindness home repair program, and a full scale deconstruc-tion and demolition program – the LARGEST program in the country for a Habitat for Humanity affi liate completing over 400 homes per year. Rochelle’s leadership has inspired other directors around the country to engage their city and municipalities in deconstruction work as well.

Conference Track: Community Partnerships, Business Partnerships, Habi-tat for Humanity


Session 7: Sustainable Business Models in the Reuse

Industry

In 1993, Dave Bennink began his Huxley College internship: helping open the ReStore in Bellingham. Today, more than two decades later, he continues to assist in the opening of new sustainable businesses through-out North America. In his talk titled “Sustainable Business Models in the Reuse Industry,” Bennink will describe how he has built sustainability into his everyday decisions at work—and how he is getting others to do the same. Though many examples revolve around the built environment, Ben-nink will demonstrate how efforts to help people in need can also benefi t the environment.

As owner of Re-Use Consulting, Bennink helps building owners fi nd sustainable alternatives to demolition. Over the past two decades, he has trained and worked with groups in forty-two states and 4 provinces, and has helped divert over 100,000,000 pounds from the landfi ll. In addition to making building demolition greener, Bennink seeks to assist lower-in-come homeowners, create “green-collar” jobs, preserve historic buildings and sites, and advance the building material reuse industry throughout North America.

Presenters: Dave Bennink, Owner Re-Use Consulting

Conference Track: Business Ethics, Job Training / Workforce Development, Community Partnerships, Business Partnerships


Session 8: Salvage Assessments in Seattle: Refl ect-

ing on a Policy Tool to Increase Building Material

Recovery

Since July 2014 in Seattle, building permits for projects which include demolition of 750 square feet or more will only be issued when the appli-cant has completed and submitted a salvage assessment for the property. The intent of the salvage assessment is to identify materials and fi xtures which could be cost-effectively recovered for reuse from the building being removed. The list of salvageable materials generated in this assessment is supposed to be verifi ed by an agent who is knowledgeable about local salvage markets.

After a year and a half of implementation of this policy, City of Seattle offi -cials and local salvage businesses observe improvement in awareness of salvage among building permit applicants along with a modest increase in the number of projects in which materials are actually salvaged. Some examples of how the policy has worked (or not) are presented, and some ideas for improving the policy for the future are explored.

Presenters: Dirk Wassink – Second Use Building Materials, Seattle Wash-ington, Pat Finn Coven – Ballard Reuse, Seattle, WA, Joel Blaschke- Bal-lard Reuse, Seattle, WA, Kinley Deller- King County Green Tools, Seattle, WA

Conference Track: Policy, public-private cooperation

Audience Level: Advance / Intermediate

Session 9: The Community Reuse Center Model

The Fingerlakes Reuse Center has embraced and built on the commu-nity reuse center model, providing services ranging from tech fi xers to deconstruction and reuse sales to job training programs. This model has enabled the operation to expand to two stores, and will be discussed in this presentation as a replicable model that can be employed at other reuse centers.

Presenter: Diane Cohen, Executive Director – Fingerlakes Reuse, Ithaca, NY

Session 9: The Reuse Solution

We’ve developed the answer and it’s building stronger every day. Let us share with you what we have done in a very short period of time and what we have in the hopper.

A model that includes deconstruction, retail sales, makers space, com-munity gardens, nonprofi t and for-profi t partnerships, reuse craft markets, commercial sales, demolition sales, Salvage strike teams, repurposed

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goods markets, and much more.

Our presentation has something for everyone and is sure to be a crowd pleaser. Our team lives and breathes reuse every day and we’ve built a model that is unlike any in the nation.

Presenters: Kyle Fitzgerald – The Reuse Depot, Maywood, IL

Conference Track: Appraisals, Business Ethics, Added Value / Refi nishing, Job Training / Workforce Development, Commercial Markets, Community Partnerships, Business Partnerships, Auctions / Materials Sales / Broker-age, Grading / Remanufacturing, Retail Sales, Design, Practice, C&D Recycling


Session 10: A Perfect Storm and the Path of Decon-

struction in Portland

It is an exciting time for deconstruction in Portland, Oregon. In spring of 2015, amid what some have called an epidemic of residential demoli-tions, Portland City Council asked the Bureau of Planning and Sustainabil-ity (BPS) to convene a group of experts to advise BPS on ways to increase deconstruction as an alternative to mechanical demolition. In June, BPS recommended a phased approach - phases would include an incentive-based voluntary pilot, development of deconstruction training, followed by future phases of deconstruction requirements. City Council unanimously supported creation of a grant program and $50,000 of funding. BPS has recently launched the grant program and will be reporting back to Council in January 2016 with program status and recommendations for next steps.

Concurrently, BPS, in partnership with the regional government Metro, and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) have developed a web-based deconstruction calculator. The calculator facilitates the inven-tory of reusable building materials and calculates the carbon and energy benefi ts of deconstruction versus demolition.

Salvage assessments are currently offered free of charge using the calculator. BPS has contracted with a local deconstruction provider (The Rebuilding Center) to conduct the assessments. Development of the calculator is ongoing and next steps include allowing for self-assessments and expanding the calculator to accommodate residential remodels as well as commercial projects.

Within the course of a year, deconstruction has gone from a misnomer for demolition to something our neighborhoods are championing. City Council is calling for quicker action, and our City bureaus want to lead by example. The grant program is now available and the Deconstruction Calculator has the ability to further promote deconstruction and possibly play a role in future requirements. These efforts and support are creating a perfect storm where deconstruction is on a path to being the norm.

The proposed presentation would summarize all of these efforts and dem-onstrate the calculator. Given the timing of the conference, an update on City Council direction for requiring deconstruction would also be included. I would anticipate needing a good amount of time for questions/discus-sion.

Presenters:

Shawn Wood is the Construction Waste Specialist for the City of Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. Shawn works on a number of waste reduction, prevention and reuse initiatives related to construction and demolition activities. These range from encouraging resource-effi cient design/construction to deconstruction. Most recently, Shawn has helped advance the topic of deconstruction to a community-wide conversation through outreach, leading a deconstruction advisory group, and leverag-ing support from elected offi cials. Shawn’s background includes design, green building, development review and city planning. This background has proved to be an incredibly valuable foundation for his current work.

Bryce Jacobson is a Senior Planner with Metro Resource Conservation and Recycling and has been with Metro for 25 years. Mr. Jacobson is Metro’s Construction Industry Recycling Program Manager. He works closely with the Metro region building industry to minimize the environ-mental impacts of construction by building more compact and effi cient buildings, deconstructing to recover used building materials and recycling everything else. Bryce is a Capricorn, father of two teenage daughters, avid cyclist, builder, metal fabricator and third-generation Oregonian with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oregon.

Conference Track: Business Ethics, Data / Metrics, Policy


Session 11: Policy Resource Guide: A BMRA work in

progress

This past year, a team of BMRA members has begun a project to collect information and case studies of policy strategies that have been or are currently being used in various municipalities and solid waste districts to increase recovery and reuse of building materials. The goals of this project are to: 1) Collect information and examples of a wide range of policy strategies that have been proposed and/or implemented in an organized reference 2) Provide a framework and methodology to help policymak-ers choose and implement policy strategies in a particular community. 3) Provide information on metrics and assessment tools which can help evaluate effectiveness of specifi c policy strategies. This presentation will report on the current state of this work. A discussion period at the end of the presentation will welcome feedback on this work. Contributions to and participation in the further work of this team will be invited.

Presenters: Dirk Wassink- Second Use Building Materials, Seattle, WA, Jim Schulman – Regional Architect, Washington DC, Alli Kingfi sher- Wash-ington State Department of Ecology, Spokane, WA, Anne Nicklin – BMRA, Chicago, IL

Conference Track: Data / Metrics, Government Policy


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Educational Sessions, Tuesday 3/1Session 12: Partnering with the right appraisal fi rm:

Deconstruction experience counts

Building on a decade of diverse appraisal experience, NoVaStar Apprais-als, Inc. is meeting the reuse industry’s need for consultative appraisal services. Nonprofi t organizations, deconstruction fi rms, and donors rely on NoVaStar to provide an early and reliable understanding of the potential value and content of a donation. As the donation process continues, NoVaStar facilitates activities among the parties that result in the reuse of both building materials and a variety of personal property items. Patrick Smith, the fi rm’s founder and president, applies his unparalleled expertise to performing appraisals and serving as a retained consultant.

In this engaging presentation, Mr. Smith will share best practices for work-ing with appraisal fi rms to increase charitable donations, and to secure tax benefi ts that can come with contracted deconstruction, construction/renovation, and design projects. Discussion topics will include:

*How appraisal fi rms can help drive donations and increase project revenue

-For nonprofi ts and deconstruction fi rms

-For builders, architects, designers, and others in the construction and remodeling industries

*How to qualify a potential deconstruction donation—criteria for deter-mining when to seek an appraisal

*Critical success factors for donation projects—the costs, benefi ts, and other parameters for success

*The importance of IRS-compliance—wisdom gained from being success-fully vetted by audit professionals

*How to select an appraisal fi rm—credentials, experience, and expertise to look for

*How to work with an appraisal fi rm—what should be expected; what level of service to demand

The presentation will aim to impart lessons-learned so the audience can know when and how to consult an appraisal fi rm to achieve better decon-struction and donation experiences.

Presenters: Patrick Smith has been in practice for over 14 years and is president of a successful deconstruction and personal property appraisal fi rm. With the unique combination of advanced designations for both Personal Property and Residential Real Estate along with his diversi-fi ed valuation experience, Mr. Smith is well qualifi ed to perform complex deconstruction appraisals.

Mr. Smith is admitted to practice in front of the IRS for the Non-Cash Charitable Contribution Program. Due to the plethora of documentation Mr. Smith provides in support of his fi nal value conclusions, his appraisals

have easily stood up to the most intense scrutiny and review.

Mr. Smith’s personal property experience has also run the gamut; from general household items in a decedent’s estate, to large antique Tiffany silverware sets with over 400 pieces, to mobile homes titled as automo-biles, and used building materials from deconstructed commercial build-ings and residential houses.

Conference Track: Appraisals


Session 12: Donations of Building Materials

This presentation will cover who can benefi t from donations of building materials, both residential and commercial. A brief overview of the dona-tion requirements including required bookkeeping during the process and a step through of the basic process including a brief discussion of the different players: (client/architect/builder/deconstruction contractor/non-profi t/appraiser)

Presenters: Molly Samietz, The Donation Solution Appraiser for the last 17 years, Certifi ed General for the last 12 with an emphasis on detailed and unusual commercial properties, everything from cemeteries and cement plants to residential subdivisions and greenhouses.

Started doing Donation Appraisals a little over 10 years ago, they soon snowballed and took over the business. As the owner of Donation Solu-tions, I work throughout the United States. Although I haven’t gotten to Alaska yet, I do make a point of working in Hawaii every chance I get. Currently part of the BMRA donation appraisals working group.

Conference Track: Appraisals, Business Ethics, Tax Compliance, Circular Economy, Habitat for Humanity


Session 13: A sustainable model for the deconstruc-

tion of precast buildings

This presentation emphasizes an approach to deconstruction project management prioritizing the reusability/recycling of precast concrete. A model using best practices for the demolition of concrete building struc-tures was developed by comparing conventional demotion consisting of mechanical breakup of the structure, and selective demolition, consisting of disassembly of the building components.

Impacts of the demolition methods on project’s costs and schedule were analyzed along with the overall environmental impact. The simulated data of the solid waste generated was ultimately compared to the measured solid waste from the deconstruction project of a 10 story precast con-crete structure.

Presenters: Dr. Azzeddine Oudjehane, Professor, School of Construction, SAIT Polytechnic & Christopher Raghubar, Research Assistant, BSc Con-struction Project Management

Dr. Oudjehane joined SAIT to teach in and the BSc Construction Project Management in 2012 and develop applied and scholarly research op-

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portunities meeting the needs of the construction industry in Alberta.

With over 20 years of experience leading multi-disciplinary projects in R&D, business innovation and market development and performance evaluation, Dr Oudjehane working with various stakeholders from govern-ment and industry. He is also Principal of AZZO Consulting in Vancouver, BC

He holds graduate degrees in both Applied Science and Business Ad-ministration. With over 50 publications and presentations at international conferences, Dr. Oudjehane serves in various journal review committees and has chaired sessions at conferences. In 2014, Azzeddine was elected to the Board of Directors of the Alberta Chapter for Canada Green Build-ing Council, where he leads the Green School Initiative

Christopher Raghubar, is currently completing his Bachelor of Science BSc., in Construction Project Management at SAIT Polytechnic. He is inter-ested in pursuing Graduate Studies revolving around optimizing resource and energy consumption in construction projects.

Always driven by innovation, Dr. Oudjehane and Chris Raghubar will pres-ent a framework and strategy for decision making in deconstruction and demolition of precast concrete buildings.

Conference Track: Business Development / Contracting, Academic Re-search, Practice, C&D Recycling


Session 13: Standardization of Transposing Prod-

ucts to Materials in Building Deconstruction

Building deconstruction has been documented as a consistent source of highly variable secondhand products with considerable regional reuse potential in the United States, provided that appropriate techniques are carefully implemented by trained personnel to protect and preserve the recovered products for storage and subsequent application. Deconstruc-tion of entire buildings, are possible especially when they are based on wood materials and can produce in excess of 90 percent recovery of the wood products. Estimating the environmental value of secondhand product recovery requires the conversion of products to the corresponding weight of materials they consist of. The approach used in this transposi-tion (product -> materials) varies considerably and typically represents the choices of the fi rm doing the deconstruction. The study reported here-in proposes a methodology that standardizes the conversion and is based on product characterization used worldwide. The paper describes in great detail the approach used in one such project involving a one-story wood house. It summarizes the sequence of steps used during the deconstruc-tion, and the list and quantifi cation of products. Finally, the environmental benefi ts, i.e. reduction in GHG emissions, and energy conservation, are computed for universal comparison.

Presenters: Lorena M. Fortuna, Doctoral Candidate & Vasil Diyamandoglu. PhD., Assistant Professor - Department of Civil Engineering, The Grove School of Engineering, City College of New York, New York, NY

Conference Track: Data / Metrics, Academic Research, Practice, C&D Recycling

Audience Level: Intermediate / Advanced

Target Audience: Deconstruction service providers, Reuse Stores / Retail-ers, Demolition Companies, Students, Academics / Educators, Architects, Government

Type of Presentation: Traditional podium / slide presentation

Session 13: The Present and Future State of Dispos-

able Buildings in the U.S.

This presentation will inform the audience about research currently being performed at the University of Tennessee. The research is focused on the application of Design for Deconstruction (DfD) to “disposable” build-ings; i.e., buildings which are demolished before many components and systems have reached the end of their life-cycles. Deconstruction of the structural frame is of particular interest as a method of furthering the sustainability of structural engineering.

Goals for this research will be presented, including developing a design methodology for the “disposable” building structural frame where, at the end of building life, the frame could be deconstructed. The frame could then be used to construct another disposable building. This process could take place repeatedly until the structural members were deemed to be at the end of their useful life and would ultimately be recycled. Interdisciplin-ary research extending beyond the structural frame will be presented as well.

Information will also be shared with respect to simultaneous research: studying whether combining DfD principles with Construction Hazard Prevention through Design (CHPtD) principles could reduce construction workers’ exposure to hazards when deconstructing a building. Simply put, deconstruction is the reverse process of construction. The expected outcome of this research is that if CHPtD strategies and principles can reduce risk exposure during the construction phase, application of these strategies and principles combined with DfD should also provide a safer work environment during deconstruction.

This session will be a seminar in the traditional sense of the word, with the audience participating in a dialogue with the speaker.

Presenters: Paul Bielicki is a licensed architect with over 20 years of expe-rience planning, detailing, documenting, and overseeing the construction on buildings ranging from food processing facilities to offi ce buildings to performing arts centers. He has a BS in Architecture from Lawrence Technological University and a Masters of Architecture and an MS in civil engineering from the University of Tennessee. He is currently a PhD student in civil engineering at UT and is teaching systems integration and

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structural design in the architecture department.

Mr. Bielicki has a strong appreciation for sustainability in building design but agrees that preservation of the natural environment must be balanced with fi nancial feasibility and the human condition. His interest in Design for Deconstruction stems from his observation of buildings demolished prior to component deterioration and for the sustainable aspects of build-ing reuse.

Conference Track: Design, Practice


Session 14: Participatory Workshop - Designing the

right-sized deconstruction program for your HfH

ReStore

The Wake County Habitat for Humanity team has offered deconstruction services ranging from simple removal of appliances, to whole house de-construction. In this workshop they will share their experience in identify-ing different levels of deconstruction services to provide, and how to fully integrate them with the restore operations.

Presenters: Jillian Cain – Habitat for Humanity Wake County, Raleigh, NC, Joel Lubell, Stan Seals

Session 15: Making good with reclaimed wood

Today, more and more woodworkers are interested in using salvaged wood. Some are building furniture that combines “reclaimed wood” with new material, while others complete entire projects using boards rescued from the dumpster. Even the high-end home furnishing catalogs tout this trend, showing off expensive wooden tables with nail holes, rust stains, and old paint as prominent features. While the general public sees salvaged wood as a design feature that adds character and green value, woodworkers have more practical concerns–like how to deal with hidden nails, moisture content, lead paint, workability, and (last but not least) cost.

Presenters: Tim Snyder is a woodworker and writer who is currently serving as the editor in chief of Woodcraft magazine. Before joining Woodcraft, Tim served as executive editor of American Woodworker and Fine Homebuild-ing magazines, as a book division editor at the Taunton Press, and as co-author with Norm Abrams of two New Yankee Workshop books. He lives in Sandy Hook, CT.

Conference Track: Added Value / Refi nishing


Session 15: Added Value Products as a Regional

Brand

The growth of the deconstruction and reuse market in Detroit has

presented a unique opportunity to employ reclaimed materials as an indicator and brand for Detroit’s heritage and revitalization. Architectural Salvage Warehouse of Detroit has provided added value materials and design services for products ranging from reclaimed wood to glazed steel factory windows repurposed as offi ce partitions.

Presenter: Chris Rutherford, Executive Director – Architectural Salvage Warehouse of Detroit, Detroit, MI

Session 16: Transforming C+D Waste into Commu-

nity Wealth

Emergent Structures has developed a multi-pronged strategy for construc-tion and demolition (C+D) waste transformation with localized wealth creation resulting from these material fl ows. Through on-ground iteration, inclusive design practices, and multi-stakeholder collaboration, we’ve developed the tools, knowledge, and capacity to facilitate the successful application of this process in other cities.

Ascribing to the emerging “Social Labs” approach to dealing with complex social challenges, Emergent Structures acts with a focus on generating physical capital, human capital, social capital, and intellectual capital. Over the last 6 years, we have prototyped a suite of multi-stakeholder interventions on a redevelopment project in Savannah, Georgia, then expanded these efforts throughout the city. We have transformed waste streams into structures for low-income communities, tools for vocational training, and objects of wonder (physical capital). We have used decon-struction and construction events to train under-employed people and teach entrepreneurs (human capital). We have brought diverse communi-ties together through the physical manifestation of commonly held values (social capital). And we have co-designed and shared new operational processes with construction companies and municipal agencies (intel-lectual capital).

Our portfolio (organized within a 3-tier strategic action map) serves as an a la carte menu for wealth generation and community development, and we run workshops to build capacity and create partnerships that result in tangible assets for numerous stakeholders. We are in the process of co-creating a cloud-based Enterprise Resource System that will make this process more effi cient and productive.

Presenters: Scott Boylston is co-author of the Design for Sustainability program at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), and profes-sor in Design for Sustainability. He is also co-founder and president of Emergent Structures, a non-profi t organization dedicated to innovative, community-based material reclamation and re-use.

Scott the author of three books, including Designing Sustainable Packag-ing, and a book of poems on global environmental degradation. He has published essays in design journals such as Core 77, Design Observer, Communication Arts, Sustainable Brands, and Inhabitat, and over short stories in respected literary journals.

He founded SCAD’s Design Ethos ‘DO-ference,’ a workshop-based confer-ence that brings together design practitioners with community leaders to address social and economic issues. He speaks internationally on design and sustainability, and holds a masters from Pratt Institute. Scott has

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served on the Georgia State Board of the US Green Building Council, and the National Academy of Environmental Design.

Conference Track: Added Value / Refi nishing, Community Partnerships, Business Partnerships, Circular Economy, Design, Practice,


Session 16: Circular Economy at Scale

The presentation will cover the soup to nuts of the circular economy as it applies to buildings.

Presenters: James Darius Ball is a Masters in Environmental Management Candidate at Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. His Bachelors degree is in Industrial Design with a Minor in Art History from Pratt Institute. James’s professional work is dedicated to transforming the built environment to exist in a benefi cial symbiosis with the natural environment. As a green building practitioner, he led the construction and certifi cation of environmentally sustainable housing for over four years in Phoenix, Arizona. He supervised the construction of the fi rst LEED Plati-num Habitat for Humanity home in the nation, two Net Zero Energy homes and over 80 other new homes at varying levels of LEED certifi cation.

Conference Track: Circular Economy


Session 18: Spread the Word, Not the Dust: Demoli-

tion, Deconstruction, and Health

Buildings are knocked down almost every day in Detroit, but at the time of press, not a single demolition in Detroit, or for that matter anywhere in the United States, is required to include testing for or remediation of lead based paint. This session will explore the relationship between residential building removal activities (demolition and deconstruction) and their contribution to localized air and soil contamination. This hybrid presentation-panel will explore recent projects, emerging best practices (both practical tips and policy recommendations), and an inventory of the ‘known unknowns’ surrounding the practical potential of a health ori-ented building removal process. Through the lens of diverse perspectives: design-oriented engagement, applied research, and municipal administra-tion, we will examine Detroit’s recent efforts (and unlikely collaborations) to bring greater emphasis on health into considerations of the building removal process.

Three Learner Outcomes:

+ Session participants will understand the recent history of research and programs occurring (nationally) at the intersection of demolition, building removal, and public health.

+ Session participants will be able to articulate the health risks associ-ated with residential building removal, the barriers to regulation and enforcement that concentrated building removal projects face, and the results from two recent initiatives in Detroit to measure and mitigate the spread of contaminated dust from building removal activities.

+ Session participants will understand the driving concepts and logistics

of how these learnings and recommendations have been mobilized by the City of Detroit through the Detroit Building Authority (DBA), by enhanced communications with impacted neighbors, community groups, and orga-nizations, as well as via improvements municipal policies.

Presenters: Erin Kelly – Detroit Future City, Bradley Guy - Catholic Univer-sity, and Regina Royan - Public Health Department, City of Detroit.

Conference Track: Community Partnerships, Data / Metrics, Academic Research, Practice


Session 18: What’s in This Stuff ? Ingredient Disclo-

sure and the Commercial Marketplace

Decades after ingredient disclosure was required for processed foods and beauty products, it fi nally reached the world of commercial interiors and building products. Many interiors standards and guidelines now include the disclosure of chemicals of concern. Get educated on the most updated chemical of concern disclosure programs for LEED v4 and HPD, Observe how to use data and tools that can facilitate chemical selection and evaluation. Gain insights into known ingredient hot spots and manu-facturers’ efforts to address them. Examples of good use of the available tools will inform what your process should be as you sort through chemi-cal disclosure. Get up to speed on this hot topic so you can use the most current data to make healthy, sound choices for your clients, the environ-ment and your fi rm.

Presenters: Kimberly Lombardozzi is the President of KAL Sustainability Marketing. Previously she was Sustainability Manager for CBC Flooring where she led development of Health Product Declarations (HPD’s) for their resilient products. She was responsible for leading all aspects of CBC Flooring’s sustainable enterprises and strategy, including implement-ing sustainable sales initiatives supporting CBC Flooring’s sales growth, product development and brand awareness.

She was also Sustainability Manager for The Mohawk Group. Lombardozzi is a founding member of the U.S. Green Building Council® Illinois Chapter and has held signifi cant leadership positions within the Chapter and the Greenbuild Illinois Chapter Host Committee. She is a LEED Accredited Professional with the Interior Design and Construction specialty.

Conference Track: Hazardous Materials, Design


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Session 19: The Community Garden as a Site of Ma-

terial and Social Transformation

Building with latent values in materials, sites and social life redirects wast-ing fl ows towards renewed usefulness and inspiration. A theory of reuse across scales is proposed to explore the continuum between urban/re-gional systems, neighborhood cycles and specifi c site or practice efforts. In other words, how can the concept of reuse redefi ne how we think about the city as a whole, conceive of ‘cultural production’, and position our-selves relative to biophysical systems? The Ujimaa Garden, Newark, NJ is a case study used to explore these themes - particularly treated through material examples of: stormwater, building/demolition materials and soil/food/vegetation. Embedded in the expressions of these three material categories is the social life that animates the recirculation of material in the garden’s process. The community garden is a transformative place where human labor creates the conditions for solar energy’s embodi-ment in plants. Browsing on vegetables, animals receive their energy from the sun. The fl ow of energy through the productive system of the garden allows humans to have the energy to work their beds, but also to live the other parts of their lives. As the vegetables are removed from the garden to the home kitchen, the energy of the garden radiates out into the com-munity. To harness and manage the fl ow of energy urban gardeners tap into other available stores of energy/utility in materials. Reusing water that runs off buildings and impervious surfaces redefi nes a waste into a resource. Demolition materials and packaging material (pallets) invest more embodied energy into the garden site. Finally, lawn clippings, food scraps and leaf litter work through the decompositional process to make healthy, productive soil. These three material categories will be explored across the urban scales to defi ne the urban garden as a materials pro-cessing site vital to the transformation of wastes into resources. It will be argued that it is through activating and encouraging a recapture of energy from materials that the human capacity for growth and transformation is activated as well.

Presenters: Tobiah (Toby) Horton, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in Landscape Architecture, Rutgers University and Coopera-tive Extension. Toby holds a B.A. in Studio Art and Spanish Literature from Oberlin College and an MLA from SUNY –ESF, Syracuse. Toby’s work investigates the reuse of materials and places in the redevelopment pro-cess. Professional projects such as the Willow Patch (with Matt Potteiger/SUNY-ESF), NJ Urban Parks Trenton, Queens Plaza/Dutch Kills Green (with Margie Ruddick/WRT Design), Bethlehem Steel Stacks and Womrath Park (with WRT Design) demonstrate Toby’s fascination with how people, places and systems interact through materials. In addition to his landscape built works, Toby’s art has been shown in galleries in New Brunswick, NJ, Montreux, Switzerland, Portland, Oregon and Syracuse, New York.

Toby’s current research and design projects include; Demolition and Reconstruction Methods with Reused Concrete, Chemistry of Reused Concrete: the Additional Benefi t of CO2 Absorption, and Building Reused Concrete Erosion Control Structures. His forthcoming book chapter, en-

titled “Reuse Voices in Design” explores how reused demolition materials in green infrastructure projects create a distinct experience of human/nat-ural systems in the urban environment. As Rutgers Cooperative Extension Specialist, Toby researches reuse in green infrastructure systems, provid-ing focused design/installation service work and educational programs to NJ citizens through projects such as Green Infrastructure at the Ujimaa Community Garden in Newark, Rahway Residential Rain Gardens, and Springfi eld Educational Green Infrastructure.

Conference Track: Community Partnerships, Academic Research, Design


Session 19: UGA Material Reuse Program – An ex-

periment in waste reduction, service learning and

community projects

In 2011, as a grad student in the Masters of Landscape Architecture pro-gram at the University of Georgia, I founded a program to divert construc-tion and demolition waste from campus into community design projects. Since then the UGA Material Reuse Program (MRP) has diverted nearly 500 tons of C+D waste into building projects supporting local non-profi ts, governmental agencies, UGA construction projects and student/faculty outreach assignments. The program has evolved from a simple student idea to being formally adopted as a part academic and part facilities management post. The MRP operates a 4-acre salvage yard on South Campus that is accessible to students and faculty working on service learning or academic course work.

Within the College of Environment and Design (CED), the MRP has been strongly integrated into the public service and outreach as well as academic component of design instruction. For fi ve semesters a Materials Reuse Design Build course has been taught, where students embark on a semester long community project where their designs are informed exclu-sively using salvaged materials provided by the MRP. Outside the Design Build course, various courses, faculty and students from the Lamar Dodd School of Art to the College of Agriculture and Environmental Science have utilized reclaimed materials on projects as a result of the MRP and acces-sibility of salvaged materials on campus.

The MRP along with students, faculty and other UGA sponsored groups have engaged in numerous community construction projects using salvaged materials. To this end, a reciprocal relationship has been formed between students and community clients, where the students gain expe-riential knowledge of design projects while the community clients receive a service and gain a sense of ownership when working alongside the University. In this case, reclaimed materials procured by the MRP become the vessel.

From an UGA facilities management standpoint, the MRP has diverted tons of C&D waste from campus, some of which has been reused on campus construction projects. Keeping the material sources local and sustainable is a huge selling point for administrators.

What all of this shows is that whether Academics, Facilities Managers or Community Partners, reclaimed materials can provide a link and bond that strengthens the community. This presentation will highlight several

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projects that pertain to these key concepts and why it has worked - and what has not worked.

Presenters: Chris McDowell is an Instructor of Landscape Architecture and Construction and Program Coordinator of the Material Reuse Program at the University of Georgia’s College of Environment and Design. At UGA, he founded a program that salvages campus construction waste and reuses materials on student service learning and community projects. Since its inception, more than 500 tons of construction waste has been diverted. Each semester, he teaches an immersive design build course that incorporates construction waste into the design process. Prior to UGA, he spent fi ve years working in post-Katrina New Orleans working as a carpenter and deconstruction manager for a local preservation non-profi t. He has more than 10 years of experience in volunteer and construction management, deconstruction, and sustainable landscape construction. He has a bachelor of Urban Planning from the University of Cincinnati, and master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgia.

Conference Track: Community Partnerships, Academic Research, Design


Session 20: Reuse Retail: a solution for managing

donated inventory

Construction Junction has been on a long journey to determine if there is a cost effective way to manage all aspects of a nonprofi t reuse retail operation using one integrated system. The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate how Construction Junction is currently using a solution we call Reuse Retail (RR)

Six local reuse nonprofi ts formed the Reuse Technology Collaborative (RTC) as a vehicle to support affordable and innovative technology to convert more “waste” to mission. Construction Junction developed Reuse Retail (RR) in collaboration with the RTC to increases reuse.

RR is a true turnkey solution built on the Salesforce platform (donor man-agement & donation processing). Salesforce integrates with our inventory management system, our POS system, our website and our weekly email blast. Each components is open source, affordable and well supported. RR uses a mobile app to effi ciently capture images and descriptive infor-mation for each (typically nonstandard) donated item.

Presenters: Mike Gable, Executive Director at Construction Junction, Pittsburgh, PA

Conference Track: Retail Sales


Session 20: Paint Recycling as an in-house product

The Green Project in New Orleans has embraced a product line of recycled paint that has allowed them to reduce the amount of waste generated on site while producing an in-house line of latex paints. Sean Vissar will share his experience launching this product line in-house, and lessons learned along the way.

Presenter: Sean Vissar, Executive Director The Green Project - New Or-leans, LA

Session 21: Crossing the Atlantic: Who, When and

How to Encourage Deconstruction?

This charrette aims to provoke new intervention ideas that encourage the deconstruction, storage, processing and direct reuse of timber from timber-framed housing. The process will be explored holistically through discussion on a simple case study: A rapacious property developer in a densely-populated area of London is planning on demolishing a historic timber-framed building to rapidly redevelop the site with a high yield 8-storey steel & glass luxury condo block.

Mixed groups of participants will consider the roles of different stake-holders in the process (client, architect, planning authority, engineers, labourers, future tenants) to propose different incentives to encourage the developer to deconstruct, store, re-purpose and reuse the timber products salvaged from the site.

This open forum will call on participants to innovate and share ideas about deconstruction from a number of perspectives, both in terms of policy and practice. By considering an unfamiliar case study from a number of different perspectives the charrette will demonstrate how precedent, environment and context can have an enormous effect on decision-making from deconstruction, through post-deconstruction and into reconstruction. In particular this case study will allow comparisons to be drawn between North American, UK and European deconstruction.

Presenters: Dan Bergsagel is a structural engineer with AKT II in London, UK. He has worked on a number of projects with high-profi le architects both in London and abroad specialising in the development and applica-tion of new tools to tackle challenging sites and architectural geometries. He sits on internal technical forums developing expertise in Timber, Shell & Space Structures, and Computation.

Dan is a co-founder of Scale Rule, an educational community group teaching architecture and engineering through the design and construc-tion of timber pavilions. He also tutors engineering and architecture students at the University of Cambridge and the Architectural Association. Dan has a master’s in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering from the University of Cambridge, having spent a year studying at École Centrale Paris. Dan received the Institution of Structural Engineers ‘Pai Lin Li Research Award’ in 2015 and is in the US for six weeks researching deconstruction and timber reuse.

Conference Track: Grading / Remanufacturing, Academic Research, Design, Practice


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Educational Sessions,

Wednesday 3/2Session 22: Interactive Hackathon

Join the USGBC ADVANCE team to build food resilience in North Carolina

“The Garysburg Food Hub is more than just a place to buy the next meal, it is the location hosting a celebration of good food. It is a place where people of the community met and talked about how important it is for them to eat better.” - Founder, Julius Tillery

And to enhance this mission, USGBC leaders have partnered with Garys-burg Food Hub Market to assist with optimizing their building and property to be more effi cient, comfortable, and cost-effective, via USGBC’s AD-VANCE platform. Use knowledge gained at DCON16 to help the ADVANCE team and Julius Tillery solve a challenge faced by the Garysburg Food Hub, at an interactive Hack-a-Thon.

Presenters: Jasmin Raja, Juanita Garcia

Session 23: An Overview of BMRA’s Training re-

sources

The Building Materials Reuse Association has multiple curricula and credentials available as part of its deconstruction training, along with text-books, workbooks, slide shows, videos and more. This session will review each of the resources in detail, discuss future opportunities for hosting trainings, and is an opportunity to share your feedback on the training program.

Presenter: Anne Nicklin, BMRA

Session 24: Setting up a Reclaimed Wood Workshop

Barry Stup has more than thirty years of experience in setting up and run-ning The Woods Company, a national manufacturer of fl ooring and other added value materials from reclaimed wood. In this session, Barry will be sharing his knowledge of the tools and equipment needed to set up a woodworking shop, and help attendees brainstorm and identify the best solutions for setting up their own shops.

Presenter: Barry Stup – The Artifactory, PA

Session 25: Lessons from a Startup Deconstruction

Job Training Nonprofi t

Philadelphia Community Corps is a 501c3 deconstruction job training nonprofi t that relaunched last year after two unsuccessful attempts in the past. This presentation is largely about the lessons we learned along the way, what worked, and what didn’t. Most importantly, what does this say

about our ability to grow the deconstruction industry in the future, and what barriers are preventing other entrepreneurial deconstructors from getting their foot in the door.

Presenters: Greg Trainor – Director, Philadelphia Community Corp

Conference Track: Business Ethics, Tax Compliance, Job Training / Workforce Development, Commercial Markets, Community Partnerships, Business Partnerships, Business Development / Contracting, Auctions / Material Sales / Brokerage, Retail Sales


Session 25: Old Windows New Jobs

I want to present an idea for “seeds of new growth” in the economy and the environment where commercial-scale window restoration directly chal-lenges the window replacement industry. My presentation will:

• Describe some of the environmental damage caused by fl at glass manu-facturing plants.

• Debunk myths of replacement windows as affordable energy savers.

• Discuss the potential for reuse of windows and window restoration as contributing to strong local economies.

• Ask the Decon 16 conferees if anyone might have an interest in develop-ing a network of window restoration businesses to reduce the number of fl at glass manufacturing plants across the country.

Window restoration and reuse on a large scale can help to convert some of the construction industry to a locally-sourced reuse economy.

Presenters: Pam Howland – Old Windows Workshop, Springfi eld, MA

Conference Track: Job Training, Workforce Development


Session 26: Diverting More Construction and De-

molition Waste from Your Renovation Project

Armstrong’s closed loop recycling program that we started back in 1999, and is currently in its 16th year. We had the fi rst and now longest running ceiling recycling program in the industry with over 175 million square feet of ceiling tiles recycled. Part of our sustainability program is to reduce our environmental footprint and by diverting the old ceiling tiles away from the local landfi lls helps us achieve that. The recycling program can contribute to LEED credit points in section MR credit 4.1,4.2.

Presenters: Kent Freeman, Armstrong World Industries

Conference Track: C&D Recycling


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Session 26: Deconstruction and C&D Waste Reduc-

tion in WWII-Era Army Buildings

Over 600 million tons of C&D materials are generated in the US annually. This turns out to be greater than 50% of the Army’s solid waste stream. This carries along with it a very heavy initial economic burden along with expensive life cycle costs.

This presentation will cover a deconstruction project that was executed at the Fort Leonard Wood Army Installation in 2015. Signifi cant challenges were overcome to fi nally initiate the project along with encouraging per-spective changes to the deconstruction process. The most valuable part of this presentation would be the challenges confronted, how they were resolved, contractor buy-in (who was a traditional demolition contractor with no deconstruction experience), customer buy-in, lessons learned and the end result. I personally am most excited about this project because it shows what is possible when all parties sit down to really try and consider a possible alternative to the normal building demolition practice.

This presentation would serve well to anyone considering deconstruction as a demolition alternative, especially those who are new to the idea. Per-spectives from the contractor, project manager, customer and customer representative will be presented to provide a holistic vantage point to what has been named “a successful Army deconstruction project”, which ended up diverting about 72% of the project waste from landfi lls.

Presenters: Jorge Flores-Davila, Research Civil Engineer at US Army Con-struction Engineering Research Lab, Champaign, IL

Conference Track: C&D Recycling


Session 27: Maximizing Community Partnership

through Reuse

It is a privilege to be at the helm of any nonprofi t organization. As the founding Executive Director of Construction Junction, a nonprofi t reuse retailer of building materials, I have pursued community partnerships to maximize the opportunities created when we encourage the public to choose reuse over disposal of building materials. With these materials, we have developed a diversity of programing from inventory processing jobs for people with disabilities through our partnership with Goodwill to the complexity of Project RE_ a collaboration that brings international archi-tecture students from Carnegie Mellon University design build program and partners them with a trade school that exclusively serves individuals rebuilding their lives after incarceration working with repurposed building materials to design and construct prototypes ranging from furniture to affordable housing.

Presenters: Mike Gable, Executive Director of Construction Junction, Pittsburgh, PA

Conference Track: Job Training / Workforce Development, Community Partnerships, Design


Session 27: The Synergy between Workforce Train-

ing in Deconstruction and Reuse Warehouses

Provide an overview of our 7-month+ workforce training program and how it is integral to the Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse. The program is designed to tackle all aspects of the trainees life that are keeping him or her from getting or keeping a job. At the end of the training, they will be able to continue to help the warehouse by educating their bosses in the necessity of reusing material they are removing or starting their own deconstruction fi rms.

Presenters: Lou Dickson, Executive Director of Evanston Rebuilding Ware-house – Evanston, IL

Conference Track: Job Training, Workforce Development


Session 28: Introduction to Building Information

Modeling (BIM)

The session will include an overview of BIM (Building Information Model-ing) for design and construction as well as some of the technology and software. Within the session we will also look ahead to the applications of BIM for deconstruction and reuse of building materials.

Presenter: Juanita Garcia, LEED AP BD+C, USGBC Emerging Professionals National Committee, Strategic Initiatives Chair, Chicago, IL

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Guided Tours, Wednesday March

2nd 12:30 – 5:00pmTwo tours will be offered immediately following the conference. Cost: $50 per person. A boxed lunch will be provided and all transportation is included.

Raleigh Area Tour

Our fi rst stop will be Green Square, a LEED platinum building that serves as the offi ce space for the NC Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The tour will entail a behind the scenes view of the sustainable features and elements including reclaimed materials incorporated into the building design.

The second stop on the tour will be The Habitat for Humanity of Wake County ReStore. Grossing over 3 million dollars last fi scal year, the Re-store helps to raise funds to build homes for hardworking families in Wake County. We’ll tour the sales fl oor as well as back door operations.

The fi nal stop on the tour will be an active residential deconstruction site for Habitat Wake’s Deconstruction Program. Being a live site, we will safely tour the deconstruction project in process.

Durham Area Tour

The fi rst stop will be the American Tobacco Campus, a national historic district of former tobacco factories that have successfully redeveloped to house production studios, a performing arts center, restaurants, offi ces, a baseball stadium and more. This adaptive reuse project has successfully incorporated salvaged materials throughout the buildings and landscap-ing.

Second stop will be The Scrap Exchange, Durham’s outstanding Creative Reuse Center. This 20,000+ sq.ft of warehouse, retail, workshop and gallery space has been a national model of creative reuse for more than twenty-fi ve years.

The fi nal stop on the tour will be The Reuse Warehouse, a reclaimed and architectural salvage operation in Durham. Their retail operations, re-claimed lumber sales, and on-site workshop will be available for the tour.

Post-Conference OSHA 10 CourseThe BMRA is committed to a safe working environment for the building material deconstruction and reuse industry, and has partnered with OAI, Inc to provide affordable training and certifi cation to our members, confer-ence attendees and local contractors in the two days following Decon ‘16.

The BMRA, in partnership with OAI, inc., is offering the OSHA 10 Construc-tion certifi cate course at the highly reduced rate of $58 per person.

When: The course will take place on March 3 and 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Register: Sign up at the conference reception desk

Course Description:

Designed for workers seeking basic knowledge of OSHA 29 CFR 1926 regulations as they relate to the construction industry. Each participant will receive an OSHA card within a month following successful completion of the course.

Instructional Methods and Learning Goals:

This instructor-led course is taught using a combination of multi-media presentations and class discussion. In accordance with OSHA 29 CFR 1926, students will gain an understanding of the following:

• Why OSHA is important to workers

• Employer and worker rights and responsibilities

• Various OSHA construction standards

• Identify factors which contribute to construction injuries and fatalities

• How to analyze work sites and discuss the hierarchy of controls for con-struction hazards

• How OSHA is a helpful resource for worker safety and health

Student Evaluation:

In addition to a post- test, students are evaluated on their participation in small group activities. Students must past the post exam with a score of 70%.

This course is supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number U45ES 007850.

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What’s Next?Local Training Events

The BMRA is seeking partners to host local training events in at least three locations in 2016. These 1.5 day events will feature OSHA or RRP training, skills assessments for the Designated Deconstructor Credential, and an opportunity to share your local operations with a small group of individuals. These events are designed for 10-40 attendees, and provide an opportunity for a smaller meeting that can focus on just one issue or location in more depth.

Are you interested in hosting a local training event to showcase your community, business operations, and support your local industry with accessible training resources? Grab one of our directors to talk more about the opportunity, or contact Anne Nicklin [email protected], 773-340-2672

The Next Decon Expo

It’s never too early to start planning the next Decon Expo, and we are actively looking for partners to host and help plan the conference. This is a great opportunity to catalyze your local community around the issues of deconstruction, reuse and recycling and inspire the international com-munity with your local innovations. The formal solicitation of proposals will be issued in the next few months, but start thinking about the big pieces…

- Local Partners and Co-hosts

- Potential Venues and Dates

- Conference Sponsors and underwriters

- Potential Attendance

- Domestic and International travel access

- Estimated Costs to host and attend the conference

- Local tours and activities

Are you interested? Email [email protected] for more info, and take the opportunity at this conference to ask former conference hosts about their experience and advice. (Decon ’13 in Seattle, 2012 Market Meeting in Detroit, Decon ’11 in New Haven, Decon ’09 in Chicago, Decon ’07 in Madison, Decon ’05 in Atlanta, Decon ’04 in Oakland, Decon ’03 in Gainesville, Decon ’01 in Portland, Decon ’00 in Halifax)

Thank You to our Sponsors and Local Partners

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