The demolition of Rodgers Quadrangle, Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house that began Feb. 20 left much debris to be sorted through — but most of it will be reused.

“The only thing we didn’t recycle was the carpeting,” said Marc Brunner, the University’s project architect. “Probably everything else was recycled.”

Brunner said all the metal aluminum and steel is sent to a scrap yard. He said it is then either sold in bulk, or shredded, to be recycled.

Brunner said the contractor’s main goal was to reuse as much of the debris and structure pieces as possible.

Steve Krakoff, the University’s associate vice president for capital planning and design, said all the leftover concrete from the demolition will be hauled to an off-site location where it will be sorted through to either be recycled or bound up.

“They grind it up and they use it for what’s called engineered fill-in construction sites,” Krakoff said. “If they want to build a building on a site that’s not perfectly flat, they’ll put this kind of stuff down and it’s good for future foundations and building structures.”

Brunner said windows from the buildings will not be very efficient to reuse. He said it would take a lot of resources and money to make the windows fit into existing buildings.

“They’re all single pane, which means they have one layer of glass, and it would be a bad use of resources,” Brunner said. “To spend good money to put in old windows is a bad idea.”

Instead, Brunner said the aluminum windows in Rodgers were demolished, pulled off and recycled.

As for the wood from the three buildings, Brunner said it was sent to a factory in Toledo.

Ben Jasinski, president of Phi Kappa Tau, said his fraternity plans on keeping some of the bricks from their house.

“Our alumni had kind of wanted to do a brick fund,” he said. “So we’d be creating a fund for the future, so if we needed anything, like new furniture, we’d have the money for that.”

Jasinski also said the University is going to allow Phi Kappa Tau to use the bricks to build or make something once the new Greek village is built.

“An idea I kind of had [was] to make our letters of out [the bricks],” Jasinski said.

He said he wanted to do this as a way of remembering the old house and keeping the legacy.

Krakoff said they are still clearing out debris from the demolition sites. He said they should be done mid to late April.