Residential Deconstruction In Houston Seminar

[trymahjong]

Got this email from COH, thought this might be forum for it.

 

 

Please attend an educational seminar

Residential Deconstruction in Houston

Thursday, February 28, 2013

6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

 

Green Building Resource Center (GBRC)

City of Houston Public Works and Engineering

Houston Permitting Center

1002 Washington Avenue

Houston 77002

 

Recycling is improving in the City of Houston. What about old houses? What options do you have to divert construction material from the landfill? What do salvage professionals want from old houses? How can you be part of the solution?

 

Guest Speakers

Lynn Edmundson, Executive Director, Historic Houston

Carolyn Stevens, ReStore Director, Northwest Harris County Habitat for Humanity

Ernest Maldonado, Principal Architect, Glassman Shoemake Maldonado Architects

Keith Koski, Manager, City of Houston ReUse Warehouse

 

Ms. Edmundson and Ms. Stevens will discuss what they do, how their organizations handle the deconstruction process and what generaly happens to the deconstructed material. Mr. Maldonado will discuss the deconstruction of a house on the site of a LEED Platinum house he designed, and how the owners benefitted from the ensuning tax credit. Mr. Koski will inform you about the ReUse Warehouse as a destination for reusable construction material.

 

Please RSVP to Steve Stelzer at steve.stelzer@houstontx.gov or 832.394.9050.

 

Visit www.greenhoustontx.gov/gbrceducation.pdf for more details and a map.

[Specwriter]

A few years ago local architect Karen Lantz bought a 1950's ranch style house and deconstructed it so she could build a new house for her family on the site. Here is the Swamplot article that ran then: http://swamplot.com/the-slowest-demo-in-town-karen-lantz-pulls-a-house-apart/2009-10-06/ . I attended a talk she gave on the experience - the pitfalls and lessons learned as well as the resources saved and actual money realized from the effort. If anyone is considering doing something similar I congratulate you and urge you to attend the seminar this evening at the GBRC if possible. You may be surprised at how much reusable material can be salvaged from even a small house.