Mutual prosperity.One thing I've learned in the few years I've I spent in business journalism Business journalism is the branch of journalism that tracks, records, analyses and interprets the economic changes that take place in a society. It could include anything from personal finance, to business at the local market to the malls, to performance of well-known and is that no industry operates in a vacuum. Whether you're talking about automobile manufacturing and steel or heavy equipment and demolition Demolition is the opposite of construction: the tearing-down of buildings and other structures. It contrasts with deconstruction, which is the taking down of a building while carefully preserving valuable elements for re-use. , many industries are linked together, with the success and evolution of one driving change in another. As the "D" in C&D, the demolition industry is linked closely to the business of C&D recyclers. Furthermore, as the two industries evolve, they seem to be on an undeniable convergence course. Some 1,800 people attended the National Demolition Association's 34th Annual Convention in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. in early April, and C&D recyclers have plenty of reasons to take notice of that growing event and the industry it represents. Such events provide an excellent opportunity for demolition contractors and C&D recyclers to meet and discuss the increasing amounts of common ground between their industries. (For a detailed wrap up of this convention, check out "Viva Demolition," on page 58 of this issue. Additional coverage is available online at www.CDRecycler.com.) Several demolition industry trends should be piquing the interests of C&D recyclers. The growing popularity of controlled methods of demolition--dissecting a structure with the help of excavators armed with specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. attachments, for instance, instead of implosion implosion /im·plo·sion/ (im-plo´zhun) see flooding. im·plo·sion n. 1. or knocking a building down with a wrecking ball--put more emphasis on salvaging demolition materials for recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. . (Some companies have sworn off more traditional methods of demolition like cranes and wrecking bails completely. Georgia-based J&B Construction and Services Inc.'s experience with controlled demolition is examined further in "Sweet Success," on page 66.) In addition, the green building movement that has been gaining momentum over the past few years also focuses on pulling demolition materials for recycling. The U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, provides a suite of standards for environmentally sustainable construction. (LEED) green building certification program awards points specifically for recycling certain percentages of the debris debris /de·bris/ (de-bre´) fragments of devitalized tissue or foreign matter. In dentistry, soft foreign material loosely attached to a tooth surface. generated by the demolition of whatever stood before the LEED building was constructed. Demolition has always been somewhat linked to C&D recycling by the nature of the business, but these trends coupled with the rising prices scrap metal fetches on the open market are facilitating further cooperation between the two related industries. |
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