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This Old House Will Help Build New Ones

From the outside, it might looks merely like a rundown house is coming down in New Haven's Fair Haven section, but to Ted Reiff, it’s promise for the future.

Nail by nail, the house is coming down with great care because someone will be turning parts of the old house into something new.

Contractors learn to ‘deconstruct’ rather than demolish buildings

Mesothelioma Resource Center

August 3rd, 2010 - Building contractors in New Haven, Connecticut, recently participated in the state's first "deconstruction" training program, in which construction workers dismantle old buildings to recycle as many construction materials as possible rather than demolish them into rubble.

VANISHING HISTORY

Harlingen air base barracks being dismantled
October 01, 2010 5:00 AM

HARLINGEN — Seventy years ago, the sound of hammers banging and the screaming of electric saws meant contractors were building an Army air base in a hurry.

Now the same noises are filling the air at Texas State Technical College-Harlingen, but part of the city’s history is vanishing as World War II barracks, offices and warehouses are being torn down.