BMRA Schedules Building Deconstruction Conference in May

The Building Materials Reuse Association (BMRA) will hold its bi-annual international conference on building deconstruction, building materials reuse and construction and demolition recycling May 15-19, 2011 at Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

DECON’11 will address a range of issues beneficial to the green building and green jobs fields, including building material salvage best practices, building materials reuse and LEED, deconstruction and workforce development, rebuilding distressed neighborhoods and recycling of C&D debris.

In a release announcing the program, the BMRA says that DECON’11 will feature experts sharing case studies and emerging research, panel discussions, demonstrations, as well as tours of projects and businesses engaged in deconstruction, building materials reuse, C&D recycling and green building. There also will be two hands-on training programs, a deconstruction workshop organized by the BMRA and an accredited construction and demolition waste recycling training taught by Waste Resource Solutions.

For more information, visit www.bmra.org for details on the agenda, registration, and other information.
The BMRA is a non-profit educational and research organization whose mission is to facilitate building deconstruction and the reuse and recycling of building materials.