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In just four hours, community members gave nearly 3,000 historic bricks from the former Concordia University campus a second life.
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The City of Portland now accepts salvaged lumber in good condition for use in new residential and accessory structures.
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A new pilot program from the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability is helping turn old buildings into reusable materials to support local partnerships, reduce waste, and build toward a more circular construction system.
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On June 7, 2025, bricks deconstructed from the Mills Open Air School in SE Portland got a new life thanks to a city-run brick giveaway day.
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Grant funds support projects to reduce waste, promote reuse, and grow green jobs by building on Portland’s nationally recognized deconstruction policy.
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Study outlines ways to reduce embodied carbon in the built environment, urges Bureau of Planning and Sustainability and partners to act urgently to reduce the carbon impact of new construction with alternatives such as low carbon materials, adaptive reuse incentives, and construction waste policies.
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Now he's off to the EPA to advance the use of low-embodied-carbon building materials on a national scale.
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“From Excess to Access” program offers construction materials to help property owners meet building codes.
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Portland’s existing deconstruction ordinance is expanding. Effective on and after January 20, 2020 permit applications for demolition of a house or duplex built in 1940 or earlier will be required to deconstruct using a Certified Deconstruction Contractor.
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City Council hears testimony overwhelmingly in favor of requiring “younger” buildings to be subject to deconstruction ordinance
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City Council to consider raising the “year-built threshold” from 1916 to 1940; public comments welcome.
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Lovett Deconstruction was established to help diminish the industry practice of tearing up quality building materials and throwing them away.
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Deconstruction instead of demolition: Disassembling Portland’s oldest and most historic houses and duplexes will protect public health and save valuable materials for reuse.
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