Building Materials Reuse: From Whole Buildings to Individual Components

Recorded April 28, 2023

This two-part event included this recorded webinar and an optional in-person tour of Rebuilding Exchange Evanston, which was not recorded.

Explore the building/material reuse economy from the perspectives of designers, contractors, and materials retailers. Learn how circular economy design strategies, diverting from construction waste streams, and the resulting workforce development implications impact the triple bottom line (profit, people, and planet). Panelists also explain which reused materials are easiest to implement in design, which ones are easiest to salvage and donate during demolition and construction, and which are the easiest for non-profits to re-sell and keep in the use cycle.

Speakers:
- Rand Ekman, Chief Sustainability Officer, HKS
- Patty Lloyd, Director of Sustainability, Leopardo Companies, Inc.
- Anne Nicklin, Director of Workforce Training and Deconstruction Services, Rebuilding Exchange
- Matthaios Aravosis, Senior Property Condition Assessor, CBRE (Moderator)