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

When Siobhan Spain and her family deconstructed an old barn on their family farm a few years ago, she re-used the barn wood instead of sending it to the landfill. “My brother works in construction,” ...

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

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

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

In the wake of last month's violent protests near Sherman Park, Milwaukee officials Wednesday announced a new initiative in the neighborhood to teach construction job training skills through the ...

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