Research Documents
Public Policy
- Deconstruction Insurance Policy: An Innovative Proposal to End Property Abandonment. April 2019
- Guide to Local Ordinances: Deconstruction and the Management of C&D Material Waste. May 2018
- Structural Abandonment Public Policy: The Michigan Fire Insurance Withholding Program. May 2018
- Planning Policies and Regulations That Can Reduce the Practice of Private Property Abandonment in the United States: The Case for Michigan. July 2013
- Building Deconstruction Policy as a Method to Address the Private Property Abandonment in the United States. 2015
Deconstruction, Demolition, and Material Reuse
- Making Deconstruction Economies Work in Michigan. September 2023
- “Challenges and Opportunities in Materials Salvage and Reuse” Survey Summary and Next Steps. July 2020
- Pathways in Domicology: Deconstruction Workforce Development. 2019
- Structural Material Reuse and Recycling Market Study. September 2018
- Life Cycle Assessment Framework for Demolition and Deconstruction of Buildings. May 2017
- Deconstruction Economic Cluster Feasibility Study for Muskegon, Michigan. 2017
- Cost Prediction Model for Deconstruction and Impact of Design for Deconstruction. May 2016
- Approaches and Associated Costs of Building Demolition and Deconstruction. April 2015
- A Green Approach to Ending Structural Abandonment in Communities. April 2015
Domicological White Papers
The Domicology team has started a series of white papers to help expand the written work on Domicology.
- Reused Lumber: Building Michigan's Future From Trash. May 2021
- Material Reuse Focus Group Summary. April 2021
- Planks & Pandemics: The Effects of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic on the Price of Lumber. November 2020
- Building a More Sustainable Economy in Michigan: Priority Actions for Supporting an Extended Producer and Circular Economy. June 2020
- Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act: A Review from a Domicological Perspective. June 2020
- Michigan’s Scrap Tires: A Circular Economy Approach. May 2019
- Michigan’s Scrap Tires: A Circular Economy Approach. May 2019
- Designing and Implementing a Deconstruction Ordinance. December 2019
- East Germany Abandonment and Reuse. June 2019
- Reintroducing WWII Salvaging Practices. July 2019
- What Comes Next for Detroit. The End of Hardest Hit Funds. July 2019
In addition, we would like to encourage our fellow Domicologists to write their own 1-2 page white paper on a topic related to Domicology!
If you have questions regarding our Domicology White Paper Series or would like to write one of your own, please contact Dr. LaMore at lamore@msu.edu.
Selected Student Papers in Domicology
- Transforming the 21st Century Built Environment: Selected Student Papers in Domicology, Volume VI. Summer 2022
- Transforming the 21st Century Built Environment: Selected Student Papers in Domicology, Volume V. Summer 2021
- Transforming the 21st Century Built Environment: Selected Student Papers in Domicology, Volume IV. Summer 2020
- Transforming the 21st Century Built Environment: Selected Student Papers in Domicology, Volume III. Spring 2019
- Transforming the 21st Century Built Environment: Selected Student Papers in Domicology, Volume II. Spring 2018
- Transforming the 21st Century Built Environment: Selected Student Papers in Domicology, Volume I. Spring 2017