When a building gets demolished, or refurbished, what happens to its parts? They might get destroyed, or just thrown away to the back of a junkyard, never to be seen again\u00a0\u2013 or, they will get reused. And it\u2019s\u00a0that last option\u00a0that Garry Cooper Jr, founder of Rheaply, decided to tackle\u00a0when he...
On Earth Day 2022, we speak to Rheaply founder Garry Cooper Jr about his innovative business that tackles reuse and upcycling in architecture and construction
‘I thought, all this is reusable and has embodied energy,’ says Cooper, who emphasises that timing is key in making everything run in the most efficient way in this business, which is all about wasting less and lowering carbon emissions in the building industry – which currently accounts for a significant part of the world’s emissions, up to 40 per cent in some countries, such as the UK. ‘I have buildings I scope out and inventory everything in them, even before they become available.
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