OVERVIEW
Construction waste that goes to the landfill is a missed opportunity.
When materials are purchased for a job and then go unused or wasted, avoidable costs and environmental burdens result. Attention to construction waste management (CWM), especially when starting early in design, can reduce tipping fees and earn LEED credits.
It can also extract monetary value from scrap, and aesthetic value from architectural materials.
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Prefabricating Green: Building Environmentally Friendly Houses Off Site
Feature Article
Prefabricated housing offers several potential environmental benefits, including reduced transportation impacts, reduced waste, and quality control for better durability and performance. Aside from a few industry leaders, however, most manufacturers do not take full advantage of those efficiencies to create affordable high-performance houses.
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Treated Wood in Transition: Less Toxic Options in Preserved and Protected Wood
Feature Article
Following the recent phaseout of CCA, the dominant wood preservative of the last 30 years, the treated wood industry is in major transition. Some current wood treatment technologies present familiar environmental problems, while less-toxic alternatives are just entering the market.
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Recycling Sparks Imagination, Avoids Landfills (For A While)
News Brief
Save A Sample! helps firms reuse product samples by donating them to architecture schools.
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Waste Not Want Not: NYC Zero Waste Design Guidelines
News Analysis
If we can reduce waste here, we can do it anywhere.
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Zero Waste? Is It TRUE?
News Brief
The TRUE rating system helps businesses and facilities eliminate waste through education and performance tracking.
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Designing the Culture of a Zero Waste City
News Analysis
Design plays a key role in helping cities overcome the logistical and social barriers to eliminating waste.
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Retrofit or Build New? How Product Teams are Choosing
Infographic
Reasons to retrofit, reasons to tear down and build new, and how to decide.
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Sprout Space: A Healthier Choice for "Temporary" Classrooms
Case Study
Sprout Space provides an affordable, healthier alternative to mobile classrooms, most of which get used for more than five years.
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First CHPS-Approved Modular Classroom
News Brief
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World Trade Center Construction Uses Onsite Composting
News Analysis
The One World Trade Center construction project in New York has been using food and waste composting systems during the first phase of construction, to be completed in 2013.
