Building Demolition and Salvage

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Listen Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004 at 12:06 p.m. in Environment, Science

This weekend, demolition experts will implode the old Washington Convention Center at 11th Street and New York Avenue. We look at the technology of building demolition and how salvaged materials are being re-used.

Audio archives, transcripts and CDs will be available approximately 15 minutes after the program ends.

Guests

Terry Anderson

Executive Vice President, Wrecking Corp. of America

Bob Brickner

Senior Vice President, Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, a solid-waste management company

Brad Guy

Director of Operations, Hamer Center for Community Design Assistance at Penn State University; President of the Building Materials Reuse Association

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