Bradley Guy , assisitant professor, architecture, was quoted in a LineShapeSpace.com story on recycling buildings. See below.
From: LineShapeSpace.com Date: Jan. 4, 2016 Author: Timothy Schuler
... But what if buildings, bridges, and highways were designed for disassembly? What if the built environment was designed in such a way that it could be easily and infinitely refashioned? What if the Bay Bridge could have been deconstructed, beam by beam, with no waste whatsoever? What if there was such a thing as recycled buildings?
This is the world architect and building scientist Bradley Guy-assistant professor of sustainable design at The Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning, as well as author of Unbuilding: Salvaging the Architectural Treasures of Unwanted Houses-has been slowly, arduously advocating for since the mid-1990s, when he was introduced to the idea of designing for deconstruction. Design for deconstruction (or disassembly, sometimes abbreviated DfD) is a design philosophy and set of strategies that acknowledge that the vast majority of buildings have a life span.
"Buildings are dynamic," Guy says. "Parts wear out, technology changes, aesthetic fashion [evolves]." Most buildings eventually meet their end, and when they do, he says, we ought to be able to recover that building's component parts and repurpose them. ...
Read more about Guy's expertise .