ReUse Haus Debut at AltBuild
The ReUse Haus will be auctioned off at the Expo.
ReUse Haus - Not Your Grandfather's Backyard Shed
The ReUse Haus is designed to bring a new image and functionality to the backyard shed.
The ReUse People is featuring it at AltBuild 2011 as a way of demonstrating to architects, contractors and homeowners
the cost savings and environmental benefits of designing and building structures with salvaged materials.
Over the past few years, the perception of the backyard shed has slowly been changing. No longer merely a "mini-barn" for the storage of lawn mowers, tools, pool supplies and broken bicycles, contemporary backyard structures are designed to serve any number of practical (or frivolous) purposes. At AltBuild 2011, The ReUse People (TRP) will feature just such a structure: the "ReUse Haus" -- definitely NOT your grandfather's backyard shed.
The ReUse Haus is designed with versatility in mind. It can be used as a home office, guest room, play house, pottery shack, art studio -- yes, even a storage shed. Although the structure is contemporary in design, through minimal retrofitting its aesthetic can be morphed to match even more contemporary architecture. The structure utilizes panelized construction, which makes it a simple "home kit" that can easily be relocated to suit the homeowner's future needs. No building permits are required to place the ReUse Haus in the backyard of a residential neighborhood.
All materials used to create the ReUse Haus were salvaged from structures being razed for new construction. Historically, these perfectly usable building materials would have gone to landfills, but because of deconstruction -- the process of disassembling a building piece by piece, as opposed to demolishing it -- they were reclaimed and given a useful new life.
Salvaging building materials is TRP's mission. One of America's largest deconstruction companies, TRP specializes in diverting building materials from landfills and giving them a second life. For more information about The ReUse People, please visit http://thereusepeople.org/
Harding Construction and Sustainable Solutions www.hardingconstruction.biz, is assembling the ReUse Haus. Harding Construction is a leading provider of energy efficient construction and home performance services to the greater Los Angeles, Long Beach and Orange County areas. Specialists in environmentally-friendly home design, home-performance testing, green renovations, room additions and remodels, Harding generously donated employee time to build the ReUse Haus.
The ReUse People of America will be auctioning their ReUse Haus at AltBuild Expo. A portion of proceeds will also be donated to Century Center for Economic Opportunity, a YouthBuild affiliate in Lennox, California. See www.cceoinc.org
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