Deconstruction While design for disassembly is the goal of building design, the recycling of building materials today must meet the challenge of a built-environment that is not currently designed for recycling. The existing construction industry is preoccupied with buildability or assembly, but not with disassembly. It must be concerned with waste disposal, but rarely with end of product life scenarios. The green movement must figure out how to increase recycling in this context, and green architects and builders must select from a limited and unsatisfactory palette of materials. Until materials are designed to be resources over their entire life cycles (thereby eliminating the concept of waste), green economic initiatives must learn to mine the waste stream. To this end, the realm of deconstruction services is one of the most exciting and rapidly growing areas of the green building movement. Deconstruction is just a new term to describe an old processthe selective dismantling or removal of materials from buildings before or instead of demolition. In fact, it was the norm in many places before