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Company Description
Founded in 2004
Successfully completed over 100 jobs -- 30-40 structures
annually
Perform whole house, major renovation, and skim work
Work throughout the DC Metro area
Employ total of 15 workers
Provide permanent employment at livable wages for at-risk
workers
Work closely with Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia,
Inc. and Community
Forklift of Prince George’s County
which receive the property owner’s donated material
Company Services
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Disassemble residential and commercial buildings for maximum
product reuse for its original intended purpose or recycling
(e.g., broken wood for wood chips, asphalt shingles for road
patch, metal for remanufacturing, masonry for newly sized
aggregate for road beds, etc.)
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Initiate necessary asbestos survey and removal work
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Remove liquid mercury from older thermostats
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Arrange for HVAC contractor to remove Freon from central air
conditioning units and refrigerators
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Remove lighting fixtures, hardwood flooring, kitchen
cabinets, appliances, countertops, sinks, bathtubs, toilets,
shower doors, dropped ceilings,
windows, interior and exterior doors, rafters, ceiling and floor joists, slate
roofs, exterior shutters, cement pavers, porch lights,
garage doors and automatic garage door openers
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Arrange for truck or roll-offs to pick-up donated reusable
building materials, recycled material, and unusable debris
and load material onto them
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Assist owner in determining value of donated building
products
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Ensure owner receives the appropriate IRS tax forms and
documentation from nonprofit charitable organizations
receiving the donated building products
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Prepare final portfolio containing detailed donated product
inventory and digital photos of deconstruction process and
representative donated products
Company Statistics (August 2004 - February 2008)
| Number of deconstruction
projects completed
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111 |
| Value of property owner
donations of reclaimed used building material |
$3 million |
| Square feet deconstructed |
167,000 |
| Number of harvestable trees
saved
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2,762 |
| Equivalent number of
football-sized field size plots of plantation pine trees
needed to produce the number of harvestable trees
saved |
586 |
| Cubic feet of landfill space
saved |
705,000 |
| Avoided demolition disposal
costs |
$213,000 |
| Square feet of deconstructed
lumber provided for affordable housing |
55,240 |
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Number of extra worker man-years resulting from
deconstruction
instead of demolition
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14.6 |
| Total BTUs (in millions) of
embodied energy preserved |
75,000 |
| BTUs (in millions) of embodied
energy preserved by: |
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Recycling steel and plastics
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4,900 |
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Reuse of recovered lumber |
2,000 |
| Equivalent gallons of gasoline
saved |
17,456 |
| Equivalent number of greenhouse
gas-emitting cars taken off the road as a result of
recycling & reusing lumber & panel products |
239 |
| Equivalent tons of greenhouse
gases not produced if wood is reused |
20.9 |
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* Source: The Deconstruction Institute on-line “Benefit
Calculator” at
www.deconstructioninstitute.com
Weight of Actual Materials Recycled**
| Tons of copper and brass
recycled
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1.6 |
| Tons of aluminum recycled |
4.8 |
| Tons of ferrous metal recycled
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29.0 |
| Tons of misc,/mixed metals
recycled |
2.0 |
| Tons of clean wood recycled |
490 |
| Tons of asphalt roof shingles
recycled
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178.5 |
| Ounces of toxic mercury
recovered |
7.3 |
| Pounds of Freon recycled
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118.7 |
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** Source:
DeConstruction Services, LLC records as of February 2008
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