In honor of Earth Day, this post is 90% recycled and 10% reduced...

Efforts to make everything—including buildings—“green” continue to dominate the environmental conversation. But demolishing an existing building to replace it with a new, energy-efficient one may not be greener after all.

SUPERSTRUCTURES subscribes to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s position that “the greenest building is one already built.” Embodied energy is an “unnatural resource” we can’t afford to waste.

SUPERSTRUCTURES’ growing list of completed restoration projects, including several honored with Lucy G. Moses Preservation awards, attests to our commitment to conserve the embodied energy of existing buildings while improving their performance.

With our focus on sustainability in advancing the art and science of exterior restoration, every day can be Earth Day.