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About Orphanwood
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Our Mission:
At Orphanwood we are committed to the environmental needs of today. We believe recycling wood from demolition is one way of making our planet ready for the next generation.
The beauty of value added recycled wood meets the homeowner's need for another alternative to green building.
Recycling wood can present significant savings in the demolition process together with huge impacts on our environment and ultimately the global eco system!
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Our History:
In 1986 Mike Kinney became aware of the tremendous waste that resulted from traditional wood demolition. Beautiful timbers were being destroyed with absolutely no concept of recycling or salvaging. The impact of these experiences caused Mike to wrestle deeply with present day recycling concerns and the environmental ramifications. In the end the seed was planted for new recycling/demolition methods that year for Mike.
Later in 1995, Mike started Kinney Contracting and it became a continuation of what began in 1986. His environmentally sensitive awareness increased as a wasteful demolition industry continued with little apparent change from eleven years earlier. Now, Mike is aware of wood together with other re-useable building materials. The potential salvage/recycling need is magnified with the reality of a wasteful, fast paced society. Mike began to ask himself "How on this earth can one man make a long term difference?"
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin Orphanage
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Then in April 2001, Mike got a call from a wrecker in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An old orphanage was slated for demolition and he wanted to know if Mike would be interested in looking at the project. After the initial salvage survey and wood analysis, Mike realized an even greater need for recycling. This orphanage consisted of hundreds of panels of high grade thermal tinted windows and thousands of board feet of Southern Yellow Pine antique grade timber. Little did Mike know at the time the significance of the pre-demolition survey of that orphanage, combined with the project's successful out come, that Orphanwood would become such an important continuation of a much needed global and environmental strategy for today.
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Today Orphanwood strives to perfect those significant demolition and recycling projects early on. We believe the potential exists to offset expensive demolition costs through more calculated recycling efforts, specifically wood but including other recyclable building materials.
Recycled wood has the potential because of it's quality and stability, tested over time, to become some of the highest grade lumber available today for green home building applications as well as use in fine furniture and cabinet grade applications.
Many of our past clients began with a wood building structure which was a property and tax liability. After consulting with Orphanwood, they realized an alternative in building deconstruction not commonly offered in today's high paced demolition industry.
Orphanwood is a multi faceted service business. Our demolition survey analysis includes wood analysis and identification, wood quantity and value projections. Our plan is to offset your final demolition and disposal costs.
References, descriptions of recent projects and material inventory are readily available upon request.
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