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October 9, 2008

Local firm finds a niche in deconstruction

  • Bellingham-based Re-Use Consulting is teaching others across the country how to get the most when salvaging and recycling building materials.
    • By SHAWNA GAMACHE
    Journal Staff Reporter

    Photo courtesy of Re-Use Consulting [enlarge]
    Dave Bennink stands next to a 12.5-foot-wide and 12-foot-tall bay window he removed from an 1893 North Carolina house. That house was carefully taken apart so it could be reassembled on another site.

    DAVE BENNINK has saved a lot of things from the landfill over the past 15 years. Like the time-capsules he found in the old Seattle Opera House, the chunk of hardwood floor with school seal intact that he pulled from the old Bellingham High gymnasium, and 500 seats, Astroturf and carpeting with hamburger-sized Kingdome logos he salvaged from the old stadium.


     
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