Mass. Home Made From Scraps From Big Dig

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/aug/01/080103879.html

It's over budget, Paul Pedini says of his Big Dig house, but at least "it doesn't leak."

Pedini wants the home - built using steel and concrete salvaged from Boston's $14.6 billion highway construction project - to be a prototype for recycling.

"These materials are as good as you can get," said Pedini, a 51-year-old civil engineer who spent a decade working on the Big Dig. "We were being paid money to junk this stuff. There's something inherently illogical about it."

So instead of dumping top-shelf materials, recycle them into a public housing project, municipal parking garage, prison, even as a replacement bridge.

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[seemunkee]

1. Why is this in the Las Vegas Sun?

Wish they had a picture of the house too.

[mrmartinbong]

2. Yahoo news has pics and a story.

This is the slide show link.

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/us/071106bigdig/im:/060801/480/6a7db3f360564d9bb895618aaeed2331;_ylt=Ak343BaHgFnKrM.1b_HSMbVsaMYA;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGcyMWMzBHNlYwNzc25hdg--


This is the story link.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/big_dig_house;_ylt=Arf9guHNAdUZQembemhCKyxsaMYA;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGVna3NhBHNlYwNzc3JlbA--

Anyway it wasn't that hard to find if you just go to yahoo news.
Mr Martin Bong