salvaged building materials
September 27th, 2008 | by admin |Using salvaged building materials wherever possible is also going to contribute greatly to any given building’s green credentials. There are some cost impediments to using salvaged building materials – for instance, virgin timber is cheaper than salvaged timber because of the immense subsidies given to the virgin timber industry – but the environmental costs will be considerably cheaper. Re-use simply makes good sense: a recent study concluded that 30 percent of a two story apartment building was salvageable by volume which could go a long way to reducing the 136 million tons of construction and demolition waste generated by American homes and businesses each year.
