Bay Area Deconstruction Working Group

The Bay Area Deconstruction  Workgroup is a group of Northern California deconstruction and reuse leaders from government, private, and nonprofit sectors working to improve policies and practices advancing safe building materials recovery and reuse.

The workgroup first met in December of 2017 to learn about the City of Portland’s successful Mandatory Residential Deconstruction Ordinance and now holds quarterly meetings.

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Meeting Notes and Presentations

October 21, 2020 - The Economics of Deconstruction

• Meeting Agenda and Presentations
   

May 6, 2020

• Meeting Agenda and Presentations
   

January 15, 2020

• Meeting Agenda
• Ted Reiff, President & Founder - The ReUse People | Presentation | White Paper
• Krista Kuehnhackl, Sustainability Coordinator, County of San Mateo | Presentation | Video
• Amanda Kaminsky, Founder + Principal, Building Product Ecosystems LLC |
  Google & Ellen MacArthur Foundation White Paper, Accelerating the Circular Economy Through Commercial Deconstruction and Reuse
• Shawn Wood, Construction Waste Specialist, City of Portland | Video – Mandatory Residential Deconstruction Ordinance Expansion

June 19, 2019

• Meeting Agenda
• Workgroup Meeting Notes
•  Ed Dunn, Director, Building Resources - San Francisco | Photos
• John Helman, President and Alejandra Arce Gomez, Sustainability Coordinator, GCI General Contractors / Madrone | Presentation
• Eden Brukman, Green Building Coordinator, and Shoshana Micon, Green Building & Zero Waste Fellow, San Francisco Department of the Environment
   

February 28, 2019

• Workgroup Meeting Notes 
• Brad Guy, Professor and Past Chair of USGBC’s Materials & Resources Technical Advisory Group, Catholic University School of Architecture | Presentation
• Krista Kuehnhackl, Sustainability Coordinator, County of San Mateo Office of Sustainability | Presentation
• Eden Brukman, Senior Green Building Coordinator, and James Slattery, Construction and Demolition Debris Recovery Specialist, San Francisco Department of the Environment | Presentation 
• Resources
  • Deconstruction Job Training Course Flyer, County of San Mateo Office of Sustainability (Provided as a Reference)

October 3, 2018

• Workgroup Meeting Notes
• Shoshana Micon, Zero Waste Fellow, San Francisco Department of Environment | Presentation
• Dave Seabury, Salvage Supervisor, Presidio Trust | Presidio Trust Building Rehabilitation Fact Sheet
• Kenneth Yee, Environmental Program Manager, & Chris Bria, Senior Environmental Scientist, CalRecycle | Presentation
• Chad White, Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD)

March 22, 2018

• Workgroup Meeting Notes
• Nicole Tai, GreenLynx - Presentation
• Meri Soll, Senior Program Manager, StopWaste – Video:  StopWaste.org – Deconstruction of Building 802
• Dave Marcan, President, CEO, Marcan Enterprise, Inc.
• Max Wechsler, Acting Operations Manager, Urban Ore, Inc. | Presentation
• James Slattery, Construction & Demolition Debris Recovery Assistant, San Francisco Department of the Environment

December 14, 2017

• Workgroup Meeting Notes
• Shawn Wood, Construction Waste Specialist, City of Portland  | Presentation - with 2018 updates
• Joe Connell, Interim Executive Director, Building Materials Reuse Association | Presentation
• Timonie Hood, Zero Waste & Green Building Coordinator and Deidre Nurre, Tribal Materials Management Specialist, U.S. EPA Region 9 | Presentation

Resources

• City of Portland, The Economics of Residential Building Deconstruction in Portland, OR, April 2016
• Public Architecture, Design for Reuse Primer, 2010

• Deconstruction Training Request for Quotation (RFQ) County of San Mateo Office of Sustainability, September 18, 2018 - (Closed – Provided as a reference)