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Podcast: Construction Brothers
Episode: Reusing Demolished Materials (feat. Ben Patton)
Description: Today we talk to Ben Patton of TreeCycle, a Vancouver-based company focused on helping construction companies use more repurposed wood.  While working as an arborist, Ben noticed that 90% of the wood he dealt with was either turned into firewood or wood chips or just thrown in a pile. He found himself wondering why more of this wood wasn’t being used as lumber. One day he dragged a log behind his van and milled it down himself in order to make a coffee table.  This experience and these concerns drove Ben to find some partners and start a company to facil...