Local Technique

 Arcana Restoration Group Ltd. are a group of heritage masons with a specialization in local brick, wiht a passion for history and the environment. They often work with reclaimed brick and salvaged masonry from local quarries to preseve local architectural vernacular. Often working with deconstruction outfits, Arcana also play a large role in advocating for material reuse while maintaining strong integrity for their work. They combine a respect for heritage, craftsmanship, and materials with hard work to deliver a quality product for both their team and clients. 

 Ouroboros Deconstruction was founded by Meredith Moore as the culmination of a years-long passion for adaptive reuse and sustainability and first-hand experience within the spheres of architecture, design, construction, and demolition. Recognizing the underutilization and lack of appreciation for existing materials coupled with contemporary society’s throw-away culture, she realized that a shift in perspective was desperately overdue. Moore has made it her mission, both privately and professionally, to help people better understand just how much high-quality, salvageable material already exists and the value in its reuse.  

Giaimo is a Toronto-based architecture firm integrating design and heritage conservation who have been implementing deconstruction and material re-use on a variety of projects to conserve, and thus leverage, the existing embodied energy and carbon of a building. They are committed to bridging the gap between the well-established deconstruction research that exists across academia and international precedents with the current state of the real estate, construction, architecture, and building industry in Ontario. 

Waste Heritage Research is an online workplace for research developing at Carleton University on the relationship between heritage conservation and architectural waste.  Led by professor Susan Ross, the material assembled here builds on work of the last decade looking at notions of sustainability within heritage and environmental conservation discourses.

Rotor is a Brussels-based cooperative design practice that investigates the organisation of the material environment. Internationally recognized as forerunners in sustainable architecture, Rotor develops critical positions through research and design. Besides projects in architecture and interior design, the firm also produces exhibitions, books, economic models and policy proposals.

Founded in 1994, Build Reuse is a national organization dedicated to empowering communities to turn construction and demolition waste into local resources. A hub for knowledge and experience in the field, Build Reuse brings together practitioners, policy makers and academics to address the challenges and opportunities embedded in the construction and demolition sector in North America