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The Key Role of House-Moving in Whole-House Donations
A hundred years ago, moving a house to make way for growth and development was a fairly common occurrence. I can recall two specific homes being...
The Evolution of Contemporary Deconstruction
In my distant days as a partner within Creative Business Strategies, I focused on raising money for entrepreneurs and developing new technical and...
Building for Deconstruction: Three Things to Avoid
While preparing to write January’s Velvet Crowbar, I decided to do some internet research. When I conducted a Google search on Design for...
Michigan Boosts TRP Footprint in the Midwest
Several years ago TRP made an invited foray into Chicago, establishing The ReUse People of Illinois. Within a few years that office became a leader...
The Promise of Commercial Deconstruction Revisited
Six months have passed since I wrote about the importance of commercial deconstruction and materials salvage, in an earlier e-letter. Since then,...
More on Deconstruction Ordinances and Bylaws
Earlier this month I was invited to the historic town of Victoria to give two workshops for a range of people tasked with implementing the city’s...
Saving 100 Years of History
November and December 2021 we had up to 5 crews working on salvaging as much building materials as we could from our biggest project in the Dallas...
A Case for Destructive Testing, or What’s Behind That Wall?
A fascinating Google alert recently landed in my in-box. When I read the title, “235-Year-Old Home Deconstruction,” the first thought that jumped...
Oakland’s Community-Sized Adaptive Reuse Project
My journey from finance and investment banking, to deconstruction and building-materials salvage necessitated that I examine the historic,...
The Future Is in Commercial Building Materials
When TRP launched some 30 years ago, I didn’t give a thought to commercial building materials. Eleven years later, after deconstructing elaborate...