Decon + Reuse ‘19
Project Re (Reuse)
with Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture
SimmonsSTUDIO learned much about straddling the many hurdles involved in material reuse at the Decon + Reuse conference, an organization that promotes the reuse of buildings and their materials over demolition - a better way to avoid mixed construction demolition debris from filling landfills and adding to CO2 into the atmosphere. The movement is growing stronger each year, and is a surprisingly cost effective way to sequester carbon in the reconstruction process.
We toured Project Re, a project designed in conjunction with Carnegie-Mellon School of Architecture, to showcase the systematic reuse of material types at Pittsburgh’s Construction Junction. The portal entry features amazingly transformed hollow-core doors salvaged from residential buildings and re-purposed.
Learn more at Decon + Reuse and view their presentation material from several US and international speakers.