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100-mile home : deconstruction and material reuse as source and sink of single-family home building materials

Budge, Graeme

The main objective of this report is to demonstrate the feasibility of a 100-mile home in Metro Vancouver and provide recommendations to support the practice of building deconstruction and material reuse. The City must champion the effort to increase materials reuse. Recommendations include: -- Demonstration in civic and institutional buildings; -- Communication of quantifiable benefits through community engagement; -- Rewarding practitioners of deconstruction and reuse with financial (tax) incentives. A demonstrate - communicate - reward strategy that will popularise the idea of materials reuse and help integrate its practice within the region. This includes: civic demonstration of materials reuse in new community and institutional buildings; quantifying and communicating success and engaging this knowledge within the community; offering tax credits to those practicing materials reuse, and implementing extended producer fees on new materials in order to highlight the financial benefit of salvaged materials. A comparison between construction and demolition generated wastes, and single-family home building materials stocked by local and regional materials reuse centers demonstrates that roughly three-quarters of material types can be sourced as salvaged goods. This implies the ability to divert up to three-quarters of waste volumes to be reused in new homes if there were an equally high demand for salvaged materials. The four materials reuse centers in Metro Vancouver sell approximately 3% of the residential construction and demolition generated waste, indicating the potential and need to popularise and expand this market. In Metro Vancouver, construction and demolition of residential homes generates 241,000 tonnes of waste, annually. The three major components of this are wood waste (50%), mineral aggregates (concrete; 30%), and metals (5%). In accordance with Metro Vancouver’s goal of 80% waste diversion by 2020, retaining materials high within the 5Rs hierarchy (Reuse and Recycle) demonstrates the potential for construction and demolition wastes to be salvaged and reused as a resource pool for newly built single-family homes.

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University of British Columbia. GEOG 419

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0075657

Arts, Faculty of; Geography, Department of

Unreviewed

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