nytimes.com— Every year, we demolish 250,000 homes and bury the debris. What if all those floors and joists and beams were reused?
Sep 27, 2008View in Crawl 4
Good point. After the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the building debris was reused to make temporary housing for those who had lost theirs. Given what's happened on the Gulf Coast, why couldn't this be an option instead of tents, FEMA trailers or Katrina cottages?
We have a recycled construction yard in my city. It has a lot of old stuff. From lumber to whole fixtures like bathtubs! It's something to look at for projects around the house. I don't know how easy it would be to build an ENTIRE home out of recycled stuff. Even if you were really fanatical about it, getting ever little piece you need would be a time consuming task.
dennywiggersSep 27, 2008
depends if they could be reused, would you really want reused beams that can't hold the structure in place?
flickrdoodleSep 27, 2008
Good point. After the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the building debris was reused to make temporary housing for those who had lost theirs. Given what's happened on the Gulf Coast, why couldn't this be an option instead of tents, FEMA trailers or Katrina cottages?
zombies187Sep 28, 2008
"Good point?" He said the opposite of what you said!
zombies187Sep 28, 2008
We have a recycled construction yard in my city. It has a lot of old stuff. From lumber to whole fixtures like bathtubs! It's something to look at for projects around the house. I don't know how easy it would be to build an ENTIRE home out of recycled stuff. Even if you were really fanatical about it, getting ever little piece you need would be a time consuming task.