Tag Archives: Trade Institute of Pittsburgh

Reuse Centers, Reuse Design

Project RE uses reclaimed materials to restore lives | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Steve Shelton from the Trade Institute of Pittsburgh stands in front of paneling of reused woods built by his students.

Project RE, is a social enterprise in which trainees and apprentices in the building trades work alongside budding architects making prototypes and products with reclaimed materials in the back of Construction Junction at 214 N. Lexington St. in North Point Breeze. (The RE stands for reuse materials, rebuild communities, restore lives.)

Mr. Shelton, founder of the Trade Institute of Pittsburgh, calls it “a think tank with tools.”

Project RE accumulated $2.3 million in grants from four foundations and Ford Motor Co. support to build a mobile fabrication lab, which is used in the wood shop and as an educational tool in neighborhoods.

via Project RE uses reclaimed materials to restore lives | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Deconstruction School, Reuse Centers, Reuse Design

Design build social venture Project RE launches with big goals in North Point Breeze – Pittsburgh Business Times

From left to right: Steve Shelton, executive director of the Trade Institute of Pittsburgh; John Folan, professor of architecture at Carnegie Mellon University; and Mike Gable, executive director of Construction Junction.From left to right: Steve Shelton, executive director of the Trade Institute of Pittsburgh: John Folan, professor of architecture at Carnegie Mellon University; and Mike Gable, executive director of Construction Junction.

With $2.3 million in funding support from organizations that include the Heinz Endowments and the Colcom and RK Mellon foundations, Project RE launches as a 10,000 square foot production facility within Construction Junction in which architecture students within the UDBS work with the apprentice laborers from the Trade Institute of Pittsburgh, which operates a few blocks away, to design and build new affordable housing and other prototype products out of reused materials collected by neighboring retail operation.

via Design build social venture Project RE launches with big goals in North Point Breeze – Pittsburgh Business Times.