Over the past few weeks, our crews have carefully dismantled materials that have become redundant in the historic Antwerp City Hall. Large quantities of lighting, carpentry, natural stone, sanitary equipment...
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We received several thousand square meters of oak floorboards that was originally installed in a factory just across the French border.
This iconic hexagonal building is currently under renovation, with respect for the original design. Rotor DC was tasked with removing interior finishings that were apt for reuse but would not...
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We are currently preparing a large salvage operation of office partition walls that have become redundant in an administrative building. In total more than 2200 running meter of fireproof (RF30) partitions, more than 400 doors and 300 glazed elements will…
Rotor DC is open every weekday from 9AM to 6 PM. You can find us at Rue Previnaire 58, 1070 Anderlecht. Want to sell or donate materials? Always send us a few images first, and wait for confirmation. Either mail to…
The Portland Building, alternatively referenced as the Portland Municipal Services Building, is a 15-story municipal office building located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland, Oregon. Designed by Michael Graves, it opened in 1982. It is considered by many…
On January 19th, during the ceremony organised at Bozar in Brussels, Rotor DC received two prices for it’s work in 2016. First the jury rewarded the project in the category Ecodesign, a price sponsored by OVAM, the administration for waste…
Large beams in laminated timber used in warehouse building often end up being destroyed during demolition. This is because the cost of removing them carefully from a building, plus the cost of transport for these large elements is often lower…
Appointed by real estate company Besix Red, we investigated the possibility of reusing more than 4.400 sqm of raised technical floor panels. The case was the renovation of a large office building in Luxemburg. The business as usual scenario planned to…
Starting from January 2017, Rotor DC accepts materials in consignment We have noticed that more and more ‘conventional’ contractors and entrepreneurs are interested in getting involved in the trade of second hand materials. Even though there are a number of…
Rotor DC, and more in particular our deconstruction service in Belgium, is explained in this 2.30 min video. The video was produced as part of our nomination for the Ecodesign Award by OVAM, the waste administration of the Flemish Region.
The Val-Benoît site, currently undergoing reconditioning, houses five former applied-science institutes, built by the Liège University between the 1930’s and 1960’s. Among these stands the ‘Institut de Génie Civil’, a remarquable yet non-listed, modernist building designed by Joseph Moutschen, opened…
Following the decision to demolish the former headquarters of the ‘Générale de Banque’, BNP-Paribas-Fortis contacted Rotor to coordinate a salvage operation of the iconic corporate interiors by notorious designers Jules Wabbes and Christophe Gevers. Rotor’s mission included the inventory of…
In the office rental sector, it is customary to refurbish interiors every time there is a change of tenant. Elements such as glazed modular walls, doors, in-built lighting fixtures, sanitary equipments etc., are usually evacuated using destructive methods, despite the…
An old casern complex, in the centre of Paris, is to be transformed into a large-scale social housing complex. Paris Habitat, the main public contracting authority responsible for social housing in the French capital is coordinating the five teams of…
Belgian architect Henry Van de Velde realised at the end of the 1930s, in Ghent, a vast university complex in modernist style, comprising, among others, a university library holding 3.000.000 books. This listed building, including all levels of the so-called…
The biannual Maaskant Prize, chosen by a different panel of three judges every time, alternates with its namesake ‘older’ sibling (which is awarded to a more established architect every other year). In 2015, the jury was looking for a ‘talent…
The ceremony was held at Village Underground in Shoreditch, London, Thursday 22nd October 2015. The judges for the event included Rosario Hurtado and Roberto Feo of El Ultimo Grito; Thomas Heatherwick of his eponymous studio; Lyndon Neri of Neri &…
Rotor is one of five winners of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2015. The City of Architecture and Heritage initiated this international award to stimulate debate on sustainable architecture. Each year, an international scientific committee selects five architects for…
During our salvage operations, we sometimes encounter items that cannot be resold directly on-site, but still are worthy of being dismantled and kept in storage after we leave the construction site. That way, we leave even less stuff behind. For these…