Matériaux Sans Frontières

Matériaux Sans Frontières is an intrapreneurial social economy project of Architecture Sans Frontières Québec (ASFQ) dedicated to the recovery and reuse of construction, renovation and demolition (CRD) materials.

Grant $50,000

Category Building

Type NPO

Organization Architecture Sans Frontières Québec

Year 2023

Status In progress

9

Jobs created or supported by the project.

141

Sales growth between 2022 and 2024.

12 000

Facebook followers, 12,300 Instagram followers, 3,600 newsletter subscribers… The RÉCO community is constantly growing on social networks.

20

Partners who support the activities.

Transforming construction

Integrating the circular economy into the construction sector

Worldwide, the construction sector is responsible for 30% of resource extraction, greenhouse gas emissions and waste, and Quebec is no exception. Its construction sites generate some 3 million tonnes of residual materials every year, of which less than 1% is reused.

This is the backdrop to Matériaux Sans Frontières, a structuring circular economy project for the construction industry. Its aim is to develop a social economy enterprise specializing in the recovery and resale of construction materials. Innovative in Quebec, this business model relies in particular on Architecture Sans Frontière Québec’s ability to issue charitable receipts for donated materials, thus encouraging owners to absorb the additional costs of dismantling and recovering materials.

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Quote from the Architectures Sans Frontières Québec team

Thanks to Climate Fund, we were able to develop an impact calculator adapted to the reality of reuse in Quebec, and consolidate our communication and marketing tools around the resale of used materials. This is essential to the development of new practices in the construction sector!