TRP Media Center

The Media Center allows you to view print and electronic media releases about TRP and its national efforts to keep reusable building materials out of our landfills.

Become a volunteer clipping service! Send us news articles and other media items about TRP. Simply click on our information e-mail address info@thereusepeople.org and let us know where and when you saw our name mentioned.

Print Media - Press Clippings, Articles

• Sustainable Chicago Spring 2009: The End Of Demolition by Dave Hampton
• Masonry Edge Magazine, Vol. 3 No. 3: REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE
  The mantra of environmentalists has reached the building community
• CMU Profiles In Architecture, July 2008: Grand Award, Residential Design
  An article about a green-built home designed by architect Jeff Jeannette, a TRP board member.
• The Coast News November 4, 2006 : Ranch resident donates pieces of house
• Gentry Magazine - January 2005: Cool Recipe for a Remodel
• San Francisco Magazine - Best of 2004: Good Works
• San Jose Magazine - November 2004 : Banishing the Bulldozer
• Alameda Sun - June 2004: The ReUse People of Alameda
• Sierra Sun - May 14, 2004: Northstar village deconstructed
• Island Recycling - January 2004 : Reduce. Reuse. Remodel.

Studies & Reports

• Turning Scrap Into Sales - A Case Study The writers were Professor Charles Corbett, UCLA Anderson School of Management and William G. Powell, MBA 2006. This case won second place in an international competition of business cases.
• UnBuild+Design+Build - The Closed-Loop Life-Cycle of Building Materials Tyler Daniel Kelsey, M. Arch, Ball State University, Arch 602, Creative Project Study, Final Report, 05.09.09
• The City of Boulder and Building Deconstruction Crossroads to the Future of Waste Reduction, Resource Conservation and Architectural Preservation
• Case Studies in Sustainability, the Politics of Design, and Localism by David J. Hess, Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
• Final Project Report: Research on Building Deconstruction by Bill Endicott, Amy Fiato, Scott Foster, TaiLin Huang and Peter Totev, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Electronic Content

• Google News Alert: Deconstruction
  Groups Promote Construction Salvage
  Dubuque Telegraph Herald - Dubuque,IA,USA So why aren't more construction companies in the deconstruction business? "We just have to get the word out," said Ken Ortiz, regional manager of The ReUse ...
  

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• The Daily Green
  New Center for Recycled Building Materials in LA

Audio & Video Content

• The ReUse People In The News: Chicago Tonight on WTTW.
  
• Published on The ReUse People section of YouTube
  • Huell Howser, California Green, Part One

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Link to TRP - Please use the following when linking to TRP site:

• URL: "www.TheReUsePeople.com"
• Title: "The ReUse People - Salvaging The Built Environment"
• Description: "The ReUse People reduces the solid waste stream and changes the way the built environment is renewed by salvaging building materials and distributing them for reuse."


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