88 ~ Friday, September 24. 1999 — North Shore News

The gentle art of building deconstruction

By Marcie Goad

THERE is a way to
make tearing down
buildings less of a
wasteful business — by
picking them aparc the
way they were put
together.

(t's called deconstruction,
and according to two local
builders who have. practise
the method for several
it’s the wav of the fit

“Our philosophy
cart in) good cons
destroy perfectly good: mate-
rials and put them in a land-
fill,” said Peter Cragg, who
along with his brother
George owns development

pany Cragg and Cragg.

Encouraged by govern-~
ment policies and changing
industry standards, more
builders are looking for ways
to recycle or reuse materials.

HE ! . While it takes more labour to
HU EN fur a ee BN ee one ee ee take structures apart carefully
EROS : , : wd ie and conserve timber or steel,
g ce = there is also a growing market

for recylced materials.

After taking apare the
building that used to house
the Thunderbird Bowling
Lanes, they estimated they
had saved 89% of the materi-
als.

The Craggs began the
demolition by taking apart
and selling timber from the
Janes and bowling equipment.
Litchfield & Co., the excava-
tors on the project, used a
wrecking ball to smash ‘the

- . NEWS photo Brad Ledwidgs concrete in the structure. Bur
the machine they used, said

PETER (left) and George Cragg stand in front of the site of the former Thunderbird Bowling Lanes, which was demolished to make room for

a tower development. Cragg and Cragg Design Group, working with an excavation company, managed to save 80% of the building materials. See Thunderbird page 93

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