Call for Papers
We are seeking conference presenters for the following general topic areas:
- Deconstruction and building materials reuse in the Great Lakes
- Creative vacant land management and reuse
Specific presentation topics may include:
- Economics and viability of deconstruction
- Using deconstruction, building materials salvage and reuse as a job training/job creation tool
- Deconstruction safety issues
- Selection and use of deconstruction and salvage equipment
- Evaluating buildings for deconstruction
- Regulations affecting deconstruction and building materials reuse
- Developing and implementing a deconstruction and salvage operation
- Developing and implementing a building materials reuse store
- Innovative deconstruction and building materials salvage practices and case studies
- Construction and demolition debris recycling
- Value-added manufacturing
- Creative building material reuse in rehabilitation/new-build
- Non-profit start-up and social entrepreneurial business models
- Recruiting, managing and retaining effective volunteers
- Decision criteria for managing abandoned houses and declining neighborhoods
- Community involvement in neighborhood planning and decision making
- Innovative building board-up/stabilization/weatherization
- Policy initiatives to encourage deconstruction and reuse
Submit presentation abstracts by email to 2008conference@greatlakesreuse.org.