Beyond Recycling: Advancing a Reuse-Driven Future

Join the AIANY Committee on the Environment to explore the challenges of integrating material reuse into the built environment through a financial, logistical, and policy-driven lens. Examining case studies from Seattle, San Antonio, and New York, speakers will highlight cost-effective reuse strategies, key infrastructure shifts, and policy mechanisms that support a circular economy, including deconstruction ordinances. Participants will gain insight into how project planning, procurement, and workforce training must evolve to scale reuse, while also addressing common hurdles such as storage constraints. The discussion will provide strategies that architects, designers, developers, and advocates can consider to advance material reuse and reduce carbon impact in their projects.