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The House That Love Un-Built
Green un-building catching on in the U.S. |
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18 Oct 2007 |
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| Posted at 12:14 PM on 18 Oct 2007 What's the opposite of green building? Green un-building (aka, deconstruction)! And it's catching on in the United States in that if-you-have-the-time-and-money-and-inclination kind of way. About 245,000 houses are torn town in the U.S. each year and roughly 1,000 of them are carefully deconstructed with up to 85 percent of their parts going to other projects or getting recycled. The remains ... |
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