The former commissary building on Peterson Air Force Base is about to be deconstructed.
Project engineers said to think of it as construction in reverse as crews methodically dismantle the 90,000 square-foot building on the corner of Otis Street and Stewart Avenue.
Deconstruction is the “green” approach to tearing down old buildings. The idea is to pull apart the building, preserving at least 50 percent of the material to be re-used and recycled and to minimize the amount of material taken to landfills. It’s different from the old way of demolition when a wrecking ball whacked the building and all of the material was hauled to a dump site.
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