Deconstruction vs. Demolition Seminar
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 – 11:45 am
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 4:30 pm
Purposes and Benefits of Demolition and Deconstruction
Overview of US building stock: resources or liabilities?
Value proposition for deconstruction / reuse
Impact of building codes and standards, economic factors
Demolition
• Demolition procedures
• Effects of demolition: cost, schedule, environmental and health impacts
Deconstruction
• Deconstruction procedures
• How deconstruction affects the budget and the schedule
• Environmental impacts
• Historical preservation considerations
Regional considerations for feasibility of deconstruction
Marketing deconstruction to owners, developers
Legislation, green building, tax incentives
Markets/Uses for Deconstructed Materials
Preparing deconstructed materials for reuse
Reuse hierarchy
Valuation of materials
Markets for materials
Design to use reclaimed materials
Networks for reuse
Material-Specific Deconstruction Methods
Management and logistics
Soft-strip (aka “cherry-picking”)
Wood Steel
Masonry Concrete
Roofing materials Doors and windows
HVAC equipment Mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP)
Interior finishes
Planning and Conducting a Deconstruction
Deconstruction survey/site assessment, planning
Deconstruction specification and management plan
Time-based salvage (short selective versus whole building)
Regulatory compliance – safety, health and environmental issues
Contracts and permits
Locating labor and markets
Materials disposition and close-out
Monitoring the deconstruction process
Cost-benefit analysis
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 Continuing Ed. Hours
Architects
6.5 Continuing Ed. Hours (HSW)
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Contractors
Non-Credit CE Opportunity
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 continuing education hours to engineers and 6.5 (HSW) continuing education hours to architects in all states, except Florida architects. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Virginia.
This event has been approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York architects.
This seminar offers a continuing education opportunity to construction contractors but has not been approved by any state contractor licensing entity.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire program. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Bradley Guy
School of Architecture and PlanningMr. Guy is an associate professor of practice and director of the MS in Sustainable Design program, School of Architecture and Planning, The Catholic University of America (CUArch), Washington, DC. He is also the director of the Center for Building Stewardship, and director of the MS in Facilities Management program at CUArch. Mr. Guy’s teaching and research focus on sustainable and healthy materials and C&D waste, life cycle assessment, prefabrication and modular design, design to use reclaimed materials, design for deconstruction, and building deconstruction. In 2005, he co-founded the Building Materials Reuse Association, and he has conducted deconstruction projects throughout the US. Mr. Guy was a member and chair of the USGBC Materials and Resources Technical Advisory Group for the development of LEED v4, and is currently a member of the USGBC LEED Social Equity Pilot Credit Working Group, and the AIA Materials Knowledge Working Group. He is also a US representative of the US ASTM TAG to the working group for development of the ISO 20887 Design for Adaptability and Disassembly Standard. Mr. Guy was co-editor for the book “Construction Ecology,” and co-author of a book on building deconstruction titled, “Unbuilding: Salvaging the Architectural Treasures of Unwanted Houses”. He also wrote the on-line “Design for Disassembly in the Built Environment” guide for King County, Washington. Mr. Guy has a M.S. degree in Architectural Studies from the University of Florida, and a B.Arch. degree from the University of Arizona, and he is an associate member of the AIA and a USGBC LEED AP BD+C.