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Deconstruction

Deconstruction projects aim to give new life to historic building materials | St. Louis Public Radio

Refab crews will dismantle the historic building and preserve its handmade bricks and timbers.
CREDIT LAURA GINN | SLDC

As part of the contract, Refab will disassemble a three-story brick warehouse built in 1884 in the Vandeventer neighborhood.Schwarz said the building was an “excellent candidate” for deconstruction, in part because its brick and timber have survived more than 100 years without being painted.“We were just shocked when we got into it for the first time that it was so well preserved,” he said.

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Deconstruction

DVIDS – News – Facilities Reduction Program declares deconstruction pilot project a success

Facilities Reduction Program declares deconstruction pilot project a successBhate employees work to deconstruct a chapel – one of three buildings selected for the deconstruction pilot program – on Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Materials from the chapel were salvaged for reuse or recycle.

The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville Facilities Reduction Program (FRP), in coordination with the Kansas City District, recently finalized a deconstruction pilot project at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

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Structure Reuse

Civil War Museum Honored For Adaptive Reuse

The Missouri Civil War Museum is housed in the renovated Post Exchange building in Jefferson Barracks Park.

In 2002, Mark Trout approached the county with his vision of renovating the old Post Exchange into a museum. Trout leased the building for $1 per year for the next 99 years. He and historian John Maurath believed so strongly in the project that they both left their jobs to be able to devote their energy to the renovation on a full-time basis.

Mark Trout (left) and John Maurath stand in the gymnasium of the Post Exchange building while it was undergoing renovations in 2009. file photo by Diana Linsley

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Reuse Centers

seMissourian.com: Business: Appleton Mercantile sells artifacts from old homes and buildings (01/27/14)

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Carole and Mike Harvell stand among old windows and columns in their architectural salvage business, Appleton Mercantile Co., on Saturday in Old Appleton, Mo. (Fred Lynch)

Carole Harvell said the conversations in Old Appleton are as essential as the commerce.

“We don’t know what a lot of things are until somebody tells us,” she said. “We’re constantly learning. Somebody will bring something in, usually an old-timer who remembers what they used on the farm or in their home, and ask, kind of testing us, ‘Do you know what this is?’ Then we have the younger generation, who are curious and like to ask what things are and what they were used for. So we’re bridging the gap between generations.”

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Structure Reuse

Pitt’s foundation to help redevelop long-closed Kansas City school | oregonlive.com

KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ A bond forged in storm-ravaged New Orleans between actor Brad Pitt and a local architecture firm is bearing fruit in Kansas City _ and may show the path forward to reusing dozens of empty schools.

The long-closed Bancroft School will be renovated into affordable apartments and a community center with the aid of the Make It Right Foundation founded by Pitt, a Hollywood superstar with deep Missouri roots, and the creative talents of BNIM Architects, his helper in New Orleans.

“Brad Pitt is a frustrated architect,” said Bob Berkebile, a founding partner at BNIM. “If he wasn’t making millions as an actor, he’d be an architect.”

The $14 million project calls for the existing 103-year-old brick school building to be converted into 29 affordable apartments with a 6,250-square-foot community center on the main floor. A new building with 21 apartments will also developed.

The community area will house the office of the Manheim Neighborhood Association and provide space for outreach programs offered by Truman Medical Center. A foot patrol station for the Kansas City Police Department also will be part of the mix.

The development also will include a secure garage for 50 vehicles that will feature an environmentally friendly green roof.

The two-story school was closed a dozen years ago and occupies a 2.7-acre site. Currently, the Kansas City School District has 38 closed buildings scattered throughout the city, including 26 shut down two years ago in a major downsizing.

Backers of the Bancroft renovation say it could be a good model for how to redevelop other closed schools. The district had set a deadline of last week for proposals to reuse or “repurpose” its inventory of shuttered buildings.

“I hope it will inform the other repurposing projects,” Berkebile said. “We’ve submitted proposals for three schools.”

BNIM was one of several firms chosen by Pitt and the Make It Right Foundation in 2007 to create designs for affordable homes that could be built in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, a neighborhood devastated by Hurricane Katrina. About 150 homes have been built so far.

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