CRRA2019

CEO, Chair

Nicole Tai is CEO of GreenLynx, a reclaimed building materials company based in Santa Rosa, CA. Nicole began working on building materials reuse in 1998, when reclaiming materials on jobs of her family’s commercial tenant improvement company. She has managed over 75 deconstruction and reuse logistics projects around the Bay Area and New York, totalling over 1.3 million residential, commercial and institutional square feet. Nicole’s concentration at GreenLynx includes increasing the market for reclaimed materials, promoting deconstruction and reuse, management, training, client development, and sustainability consulting. Nicole coordinates the Bay Area Deconstruction Workgroup and Chairs the Reuse Alliance Board.

Nicole Tai  will present bold new ideas for creating large scale wood reuse over the next 10 years, and how emissions factors should play a role in determining what gets reclaimed and how materials are reused. Changing our systems and behaviors both at a localized project level and at a regional level are essential to ensuring a new, resilient building materials management movement. We must look at building materials reuse from a use, transportation, and emissions perspective in order to meet our State 2030 climate goals.