by: Bria Donohue
This week, New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) launched a reclaimed materials hub year-long pilot, called the Circular Construction Hub at MADE Bush Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. This facility will serve as the physical infrastructure to support material reuse, working as the vital interim step by storing reclaimed materials ready to be reused. Operated by Our Temenous, a Brooklyn-based ecological landscaping firm, the hub will focus on the recovery, storage, sorting, and redistribution of construction materials. This is a pivotal step to build out New York City’s circular economy, reducing construction waste, stimulating innovation, and creating green jobs.
This partnership is a result of an “Ideas for Impact” Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI), an open solicitation for entities to propose innovative partnership opportunities that advance EDC’s economic development priorities.
AIA New York commends NYCEDC for their continued leadership advancing our city’s circular economy. The Circular Construction Reuse Hub will build out the type of physical infrastructure necessary to support material reuse at scale—a recommendation detailed in the New York Embodied Carbon Action Plan, a tangible roadmap developed by industry experts to strategically reduce embodied carbon emissions in the built environment and create green jobs.