Unfulfilled Potential 2: Completing construction mock-ups & diverting waste
Event Information
About this event
The Useful Waste Initiative is based on two central goals; first to divert usable construction material waste, specifically stand-alone construction mock-ups, and second, to support local community efforts, such as transitional housing units and service offices or wifi hubs or bus shelters.
Construction mock-ups are small prototype structures of a larger building (approx. 8’-0” x 12’-0”). Project teams use mock-ups to set quality standards and construction expectations to inform the primary building construction. Typically, these mock-ups are destroyed and thrown away in the mixed debris construction dumpster. With pre-planning and setting project waste diversion goals, these materials (including labor and monetary investment) can be reused for smaller community design projects.
Learn more at usefulwaste.org.
Guest speaker: Jay Nees, Walsh Construction
Learning Objectives:
1. To introduce new strategies to reuse or repurpose for stand-alone construction mockup design.
2. To understand the process, benefits, and liability of diverting construction mock-ups and implement this process within your firm or company.
3. To become familiar with the Useful Waste Initiative and the Center for Public Interest Design at Portland State University.
4. To learn how to design construction mock-ups to be donated and identify useable excess construction materials that can be donated and repurposed on small scale community projects.
HSW Statement:
“This session focuses on construction waste management workflows to support on-site safety practices, foster equitable access to shelter within under-served communities, and to promote social and physical well-being of users.”
AIA CEU - self-reported credits available (1HSW/CEU)
Organizer The City Repair Project
Organizer of Unfulfilled Potential 2: Completing construction mock-ups & diverting waste
City Repair is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live. City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world. The many projects of City Repair have been accomplished by a mostly volunteer staff and thousands of volunteer citizen activists.
City Repair began in Portland, Oregon with the idea that localization - of culture, of economy, of decision-making - is a necessary foundation of sustainability. By reclaiming urban spaces to create community-oriented places, we plant the seeds for greater neighborhood communication, empower our communities and nurture our local culture.
Our projects include the annual Village Building Convergence, where people gather at neighborhood sites throughout Portland to engage in intersection repair, natural building, and other forms of placemaking. We also host Earth Day.
Throughout the year we educate the community with workshops on all forms of sustainability and offer the invaluable placemaking guidebook and one-on-one consulting for those who want to repair their own neighborhood. If you are interested in helping our efforts please visit our volunteer page.
As an almost entirely volunteer-driven nonprofit organization, we rely solely on the support of our community. Please consider donating to help ensure our vision becomes a reality.
