Recycle and Reuse of Construction Materials

Each month we are going to focus on a different chapter of sustainable building. The first chapter is recycle and reuse. We were hoping to recycle as much as we could on our last tear down of our existing house, the demo company said we would be lucky to reach 50% of gross weight. We then asked him what would happen if we took the building down by hand and seperated all the materials into different dumpsters. He said this would certainly help, but would cost a great deal more than just using a large piece of equipment. We agreed to pay more and see what the results would be. Thanks to an incredible effort by our demo company, Tammal Demolition - even we were suprised. Watch the video below to see the results.

First Carbon Neutral Homes

GreenSpur is a new company in the Washington DC area that is designing and building what we think will be some of the first carbon neutral homes in the area.