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A hundred years ago, moving a house to make way for growth and development was a fairly common occurrence. I can recall two specific homes being...

In my distant days as a partner within Creative Business Strategies, I focused on raising money for entrepreneurs and developing new technical and...

While preparing to write January’s Velvet Crowbar, I decided to do some internet research. When I conducted a Google search on Design for...

Several years ago TRP made an invited foray into Chicago, establishing The ReUse People of Illinois. Within a few years that office became a leader...

Six months have passed since I wrote about the importance of commercial deconstruction and materials salvage, in an earlier e-letter. Since then,...

Earlier this month I was invited to the historic town of Victoria to give two workshops for a range of people tasked with implementing the city’s...

A fascinating Google alert recently landed in my in-box. When I read the title, “235-Year-Old Home Deconstruction,” the first thought that jumped...

My journey from finance and investment banking, to deconstruction and building-materials salvage necessitated that I examine the historic,...

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 53 seconds Idaho has a libertarian streak. “The hell with government oversight or regulations” come the cries...

When TRP launched some 30 years ago, I didn’t give a thought to commercial building materials. Eleven years later, after deconstructing elaborate...