Mismatched presents are painful for everyone involved, and they rarely do good for the environment. That’s why we decided to launch our new system of gift cards. Sending a card is very simple: you can freely choose the amount, add…
From now on, all items below 30kg can be shipped to 14 European countries. This includes our offers in hardware, lights, and sanitary equipment. Our international shipping rates vary between 8 and 20€, depending of the destination and weight of the…
W’re hiring a sales person for our shop in Anderlecht (speaking french & dutch). Description below. In het kader van de verdere ontwikkeling van zijn activiteiten, zoekt Rotor DC een nieuwe medewerker verantwoordelijk voor verkoop. Dans le cadre du développement…
We received several thousand square meters of oak floorboards that was originally installed in a factory just across the French border. SOLD OUT
Update 29/10/2017: This offer is no longer available 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,…
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…
What is right now just an empty former chocolat factory, will soon host our new headquarters. Before that happens, a big challenge lays ahead. We ‘ll need to move a couple dozen truckloads of materials. Here is the plan: We close…
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…
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.
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…
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…
