ILSR’s DECONSTRUCTION NATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM

This past September, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance kicked-off its national deconstruction training program at the 4^th Used Building Materials Association (UBMA) Conference in Portland, Oregon.   The training program will provide worker and entrepreneur training throughout the country to community development organizations and small businesses.   The program will be headed by Jim Primdahl, a nationally recognized deconstruction trainer with extensive business development experience.  Primdahl helped establish DeConstruction Services, the highly successful deconstruction arm of the ReBuilding Center in Portland, Oregon.

ILSR is launching the program with assistance to the Umpqua Community Development Corporation in Roseburg, Oregon; the Metropolitan Development Council in Tacoma, Washington; the Pioneer Valley Project in Springfield, Massachusetts; the New Community Corporation in Newark, NJ, and Just U Wait N’ See, CDC in Washington, D.C (See Below).

DECONSTRUCTION TRAINING PROGRAM LAUNCHED IN D.C.

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is providing deconstruction training to Just U Wait’N See, Inc., CDC (JUWNS) and the NOAH Group as they deconstruct the Stanton Dwellings public housing complex in Southeast DC, the single largest deconstruction project in the U.S. encompassing 348 units.

ILSR’s training program will provide intense programatic training in all aspects of deconstruction to 48 D.C. men and women.  The project is expected to take eight months to complete. 

Interested in starting a deconstruction program in your area? Contact ILSR at info@ilsr.org

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