Pooling service for reusable sanitary equipment

Recovering sanitary equipment during renovations and cleaning it for reuse

Rotor Deconstruction is an innovative company that focuses on the reuse of building products, especially interior finishes from large buildings of the 20th and 21st centuries. Our goal is to facilitate the reuse of materials within the construction industry.

With this project, we want to specifically investigate a possible new service, namely the reuse of sanitary equipment from office buildings that is often replaced in large numbers during renovations.

Flanders is one of the most densely built-up regions in Europe and office buildings make up a large part of our built-up environment. Every year, around 5% of the total surface area of office buildings is renovated. Roughly speaking, that amounts to 650 double sinks, 1,500 toilets and 500 urinals that are disposed as waste, only to be re-purchased. These sanitary facilities, made of ceramic and therefore very durable, are often only a decade old and therefore still perfectly functional if properly maintained.

In order to avoid such waste, we are looking into the possibility of collecting the used sanitary equipment for inspection and thorough cleaning, and then delivering it as good as new. In this way, the budget for the purchase of new products is also spent on local employment with a limited ecological footprint.