You can calculate the embodied energy of your home. Check out the embodied energy calculator at this cool web site DeconstructionInstiture.com This is why Eco Brooklyn is so passionate about salvaging materials for our Brooklyn and NY brownstone renovations. It is hugely successful at reducing our consumption of global energy. From their site: Every building […]
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All builders create waste. Green builders create a lot less because they reuse, recycle and find others to use their stuff. One of the tricks is finding places or companies that will take your stuff and channel it for another use. Here are some resources from a deconstruction article that ran a couple of years
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Normal building terminology for taking out an old building structure is called “demolition.” When you want to redo your brownstone’s bathroom you have to first do a demolition of the existing bathroom. But as a green contractor in Brooklyn we don’t demolish anything. The term demolish does not exist in green building. We deconstruct Deconstruction
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