Fellows mentioned in this story: Quinn Vittum
From Civil Beat:
When Kīlauea erupted in 2018, thousands of earthquakes struck Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park and irreparably damaged its Jaggar Museum.
Its foundation was cracked, and the caldera edge it’s built on was damaged. For six years it sat closed until work began to remove it last month.
But instead of excavators and wrecking balls demolishing the museum and sending the debris to a landfill, contractor Re-use Hawai‘i is carefully deconstructing it with the hope of its materials being used again in future projects.
“Essentially what we do is look at how the building was built and approach in the opposite order,” Re-use Hawai‘i executive director Quinn Vittum said.
The materials that would ordinarily be sent to a landfill are diverted to one of Re-use Hawai‘i’s redistribution sites, where customers can buy second-hand materials like lumber and windows for their own projects.
The idea of recycling buildings is gaining momentum in Honolulu, where the question of what to do with construction and demolition waste has become more pressing in the run-up to the island’s two landfills closing.
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