Inventory: A Material Catalog for Concrete Rubble

The demolition site is one of the contemporary city’s most compelling forums for civic debate and urban speculati on. Suspended within relentless cycles of redevelopment, it renders visible the spatial politics and material footprints of the building industry. According to the EPA, roughly 500 million tons of construction and demolition debris is generated every year in the United States, of which up to 80% consists of concrete from the demolition of infrastructural works, obsolete industrial sites and misunderstood Brutalist monuments. While many states have implemented waste bans and tax credits to incentivize the reuse of salvaged aggregate in new construction, the process of sorting and transporting rubble from building sites to recycling and distribution faciliti es remains an opaque and labor intensive undertaking filled with legislative loopholes and inefficiencies.

Volume Editors
Jasmine Benyamin, Kyle Reynolds, Mo Zell, Nikole Bouchard & Whitney Moon

ISBN
978-1-944214-28-9