To avoid waste in the construction sector, the company Espazo, based in Quint-Fonsegrives (Haute-Garonne), offers its customers reconditioned partitions, a unique service in France. This SME specializing in the design and construction of spaces is innovating by integrating these partitions into new offices, reducing the environmental impact.
“The observation was simple: at each construction site, the owners of premises ask for a blank platform, so I saw the dumpsters filled with partitions still in good condition going to the dump,” says Rodolphe Giraud, the founder of Espazo, which has fifteen employees. I launched the project a year ago by investing just over 30,000 euros to double the storage space in our workshops. Since January, we have carried out four projects of this type. We can no longer continue this system of throwing away endlessly, mentalities must change ”.
A solution to rising material costs
After a technical audit of the partitions and doors, these are dismantled. Nearly 30% can be upgraded by careful sorting and 70% are reconditioned to live a second life. This virtuous concept in short circuit can be an alternative to compensate for the availability and the increase in the cost of materials.
To launch this new market, Espazo wants to create a synergy with companies in the moving phase in order to collect partitions usually destined for the waste disposal center and build up a stock of raw materials.
In the same logic of waste reduction, the Toulouse company also offers to recover ceiling tiles and office carpets to recondition and reuse them.