Deconstruction training program created - Industry News

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), Washington, is now offering a national deconstruction training program. The launching of the program was announced at the Used Building Materials Association conference, which took place in September.

"The training program formalizes much of the work ILSR has done across the country over the last two years," says Mark Jackson, and ILSR program associate.

Jackson says ILSR projects in Connecticut, the San Francisco Bay Area and in Washington, DC, "have created dozens of jobs, helping unemployed workers and public housing residents break into high-wage careers and even union training programs."

Advocates of deconstruction, such as ILSR program director Neil Seldman, tout job creation as a benefit of the process.

The ILSR has targeted Bridgeport, Conn.; Newark, N.J.; Portland, Ore.; Burlington, Vt.; Tacoma, Wash.; and Washington, DC, as cities where projects will be introduced.

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