Innovative Conservation of Bio Mass
Safe Harbor and Emily Beebe have been experimenting with an innovative concept in environmental site management. We have developed new protocols for conservation of native vegetation (Indigenous Bio Mass) on construction sites. When construction activity in sensitive environmental area removes indigenous vegetation, replacement vegetation and care are costly. Conservation Commissions want the native vegetation re-established to protect site stability, habitat and for natural erosion control.
Safe Harbor’s concept is utilized to salvage a sometimes significant portion of existing pre-construction vegetation. This biomass is then re-used for post construction habitat restoration. Salvaged vegetation can be tarped for short term storage, transplanted on another site or or heeled in to over winter.
Kevin Rose of Wellfleet uses heavy equipment with the finesse of a surgeon. For more information on this technique, see our page “Sustainability: Case Studies”
Innovative Bio Logs save money.
Innovative Bio Logs are made from straw and jute netting, as shown below. On low slopes and side slopes, Bio Logs should replace expensive, over nutrifying straw bales. Biologs stretch dollars and maintain performance standards.
Innovative Solution for Coastal Redevelopment
A large home in a sensitive coastal area between a harbor and Cape Cod Bay. The new owner is going to build a new home but the resource cannot withstand standard demolition activity.
We immediately considered using our de-construction protocol, to remove sections of the building intact, for demolition on a nearby road.
Wellfleet Architect Alan Dodge and Petra Mandakova, a recent graduate in Architecture representing Safe Harbor, discuss reverse engineering the building’s structure.
Alan Dodge, a frequent Safe Harbor collaborator, identifies de-construction points beneath the building that would enable a crane to remove the structure in sections.
Following through with Mike Winkler of Winkler Crane Services, to go over protocols. It is raining in this picture but not enough to deter our conversation. Mike is another one of Safe Harbor’s collaborators. We both use innovative approaches to problems.
