Building construction and the recycling ethic | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Fred H Olson WB0YQM (fholsonmaroon.tc.umn.edu) | |
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 09:10:20 -0500 |
I realize that the Subject: of this message (Building construction and the recycling ethic) is generally an oxymoron but it should not be... I was out at Monterey Cohousing here in Minnesota last night for supper and viewing the construction progress (basement stud walls and floor joists for the first floor are mostly in). On the way up to John's unit in the common house (to consult a map related to some pro wetland organizing...), he mentioned that there was a nice piece of plywood in the dumpster that he didn't feel like digging out. So I decided to do a little dumpster diving. (got it and some other nice 2 by 's ). I got to thinking about an article I read recently (in the Mpls Star Trib I think) that there are a few efforts to deal with construction waste more in keeping with the recycling ethic. Executive summary from memory: 1) Spec materials more closely to reduce waste 2) Separate waste on the jobsite and despose of more appropriately 3) Take mixed waste to sort/reuse/recycling centers What's this got to do with cohousing? Well if I were picking a builder I'd ask if they do 1 and 2 above and note the response. If you get a dumb look they'd get one little minus. If they respond intelligently (whether they are doing yet or not) I'd be favorably impressed and look more closely because I'd expect this would correlate with other positive aspects of such a contractor such as thinking about what they are doing and how it will function for the end users. Sorry if I sound overly skeptical of construction workers but I think the construction industry has over relied on "brute force" approaches rather than "elegant" solutions (software development terms) and most workers have little choice but go along. It's the (current) system. Fred -- Fred H. Olson fholson [at] uci.com (612)588-9532 Amateur radio: WB0YQM 1221 Russell Av N, Minneapolis,MN 55411 Sysop of COHOUSING-L listserv; COHOUSING URL's: mailto://listserv [at] uci.com (w/ msg: Info Cohousing-L) gopher://gopher.uci.com/ Twin Cities FREENET is in PUBLIC TEST PHASE URL's: mailto://info [at] freenet.msp.mn.us http://freenet.msp.mn.us/
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Building construction and the recycling ethic Fred H Olson WB0YQM, September 2 1995
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