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Green Building: April 2008 Monthly archive

Unbuild for an Eco-friendly Teardown Solution

This article from the Wall Street Journal offers the pros and cons of an "unbuild" instead of teardown. It's still cheaper to demo everything and throw it away but much more satisfying to reuse old brick for a retaining wall or find uses for tile and stone in your new home.

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Tags:  eco-friendly, recycle, teardown, unbuild, wsj.com

  April 30, 2008 | Comments ()

Drainage Solution: Pervious Concrete

The New York Times Green Issue highlighted Chicago's use of pervious concrete in an ongoing project called Green Alley's which is a renovation of the pavement in the cities alley space from impervious concrete to permeable concrete that is also high albedo.

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Tags:  construction, drainage, green building, pervious concrete, water

  April 21, 2008 | Comments ()

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