Directory of Wood-Framed Building Deconstruction and Reused Building Materials Companies, 2004

by Robert H. Falk and G. Bradley Guy, 2004. General Technical Report FPL-GTR-150, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin. 113 pages, softcover.

Developed by the USDA Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) in cooperation with the Powell Center for Construction and Environment at the University of Florida, this directory lists U.S. companies involved in the deconstruction and dismantling of wood-framed buildings and the reuse of building materials, with an emphasis on wood. An introduction by Robert H. Falk, an FPL research engineer, and G. Bradley Guy, director of operations at the Hamer Center for Community Design Assistance at Pennsylvania State University, briefly describes the benefits and challenges of building deconstruction. The pith of the book is divided into two parts. In the first, companies are listed alphabetically by state and then alphabetically by company type; in the second, companies are listed alphabetically by company type and then alphabetically by state. The complete directory is available online at www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/fpl_gtr150.pdf.

– JB