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Urbanite is the name for reclaimed, recycled concrete from the demolition of roads, buildings, and sidewalks. It is typically broken up by heavy machinery, and either thrown in ditches, the landfill, or is left sitting in giant yards or alongside roads. The stuff can be found literally everywhere, once you actually notice it.
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I recently went to collect urbanite for my own building project, a kitchen that will be built using mostly natural and reclaimed building materials, including local wood,straw bales,cob, and urbanite. I have used urbanite before, but this time, walking in a giant yard brimming with the stuff, I got a decidedly post-industrial feeling about the whole thing.
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There was something sorta post-modern about the whole affair: scrambling over giant piles of rubble from dozens of demolition jobs, looking for the right size pieces of concrete to reuse in a completely different sort of building. I imagined that if I didn’t pick through this stuff, it would likely still be there the next year, and the next, and probably until well beyond my life or that of even our current capitalist, globalized society.
Concrete is, after all, pretty muchcompletely non-biodegradable. And it is used absolutely everywhere: roads, walls, bridges, paths, houses, etc. The consumption of concrete is utterly massive: it’s这是地球上消耗第二多的物质, second only to water. That, I think, is absolutely horrifying. Concrete is here to stay. It’s not going to return to the earth anytime soon, like a fallen tree in the forest. That concrete block will look the same for hundreds (or thousands?) of years.
And here is why urbanite is the perfect symbol for a new green building movement: to take old concrete from roads and big buildings, those things that symbolize the achievements of our sprawling, ecologically destructive society, and to reuse them in natural homes, homes built by human hands, using other natural and recycled materials, is a brilliant thing.
The idea that urbanite serves as a literal and figurativefoundationis beautiful!
p.s. Interested in learning more about green and natural building? Consider participating in agreen building internshipwith New Jura Natural Building.
Jim Martellsays
I started a new yahoo group today, it’s at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reclaimed_building_materials_usa/
It covers all 50 states in the USA. This group’s purpose is to recycle all the good used building materials that get thrown away each day. Also, I hope this group will increase the use or reusable reclaimed building materials,Anyone in the USA can join. Items must be free.
Got an old barn you’re tearing down? Remodeling and getting rid of good used carpet ,doors, windows, ceramic tile, Ceiling fans, doors, fixtures or furniture. Then join this group!
Robert Joesays
Looking for a pro-bono SF Bay Area Urbanite Expert that would like to conduct a one day or weekend urbanite class and workshop in Oakland.
This is a LEED for Homes Gut Rehab of an 1895 Victorian, Plaintum pre-certified. We removed and saved the old concrete driveway and want to reuse it to create a pervious urbanite driveway.
We need the attendees/volunteers to compact the base rock, layout and level the urbanite and apply the decomposed granite as filler material at the urbanite gaps.
Hoping to hold the Ubanite Class/Workshop in early November 2010
Thank you,
Bob Joe, CSBA, LEED AP
The 1895 Green Castle
ecohouse@comcast.net
925.939.7444
Tony Putrowsays
To whom it may concern:
你们知道AZ里有哪家承包商专门安装Urbanite吗?
Thanks,
Tony
Hoskisays
Hi Tony,
我在AZ,刚刚完成一座城市建筑。2022世界杯四强亚盘赔率
Cheers,
hosing
Hoski
Elisabethsays
Where can you find urbanite in SF??