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Reuse audit

From demolition to urban mining.

An on-site inventory of the value and demountability of materials, with a diagnosis and a recommendation for the best destination: reuse, resale or recycling.

A building that is about to come down contains materials that are worth something and others that will not survive removal. The inventory tells the two apart before the machines arrive, while everything is still in place and can be inspected.

Reuse audit.

Put a figure on your building's reuse value, before works begin.

A costed inventory of the existing building's value and demountability, made on site before demolition. Each lot is directed towards reuse, resale or recycling.

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What you receive
The inventory
A costed inventory of the materials in place, lot by lot, with their condition recorded on site.
Demountability
The demountability of each lot, assessed from how it is fixed, and recorded piece by piece on site.
Destination
The destination of each lot: reuse on site, reuse elsewhere, resale or recycling.
The routes
The routes and operators available for what the building actually contains.
The stakes

A building due for demolition is a resource before it is a skip.

The inventory is carried out on site, before demolition, while the materials are still in place and can be inspected. Each lot is given a market value and a demountability rating, because a material that breaks on removal loses its value, whatever it may be on paper.

Our method

The visit records the materials in place, their condition and how they are fixed. A screwed or bolted assembly comes apart without damage, whereas a glued or mortared one breaks on removal. Differences of this kind decide whether a lot goes to reuse or to recycling, and how it has to be sorted during dismantling.

Partner operators

The audit tells you what is worth saving, what it is worth and which operator to send it to. Dismantling, storage and putting materials back on the market are the work of specialists such as Rotor DC, whose business is keeping these lots in circulation.

The steps
01
The visit
Your drawings, access to the building and the planned demolition date. The earlier the visit, the more time there is to organise careful dismantling.
02
The survey
We go through the building lot by lot, record condition and fixings, and photograph what will be removed.
03
Destination
The costed inventory, the demountability of each lot, and the route each one is directed to, with the operators to contact.
The method

The audit directs each lot to a route; it neither dismantles nor resells.

The inventory is made by sight and by hand, without opening up walls. When a fixing is hidden behind a facing, we flag it as such and the question stays open until removal. The values we give are order-of-magnitude market values, and a buyer will set their own price.

Deconstruction contractors and reclamation dealers take over from there, and the audit names them for you.