Reaforma
Problem addressed
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development has concluded that building facades are responsible for 21% of a building’s embodied carbon over its life cycle. Building materials are often energy and raw material intensive, which makes reducing the wasteful manufacturing processes necessary to address their environmental effects.
Overview of start-up
Reaforma repurposes construction and manufacturing waste into new building materials to create carbon-negative facades. Their method for creating these materials has both a low impact on the environment and uses minimal energy. Reaforma sources waste feedstock from both the construction and mining industries, and they lock atmospheric carbon into their products. The resulting materials are durable, strong, beautiful, and high-quality. Their façade products can be used for both interior and exterior building applications and are available as panellised and non-panellised systems.
What makes the start-up innovative?
By offering building products which are carbon negative, Reaforma offers an innovative solution to façade construction. The finished products are composed of 80% industrial and construction waste, which eliminate wastes through upcycling rather than downcycling. Reaforma contributes to a circular economy by reducing embodied emissions, making the transition to Net Zero easier and more affordable.
How the start-up has been designed to scale-up quickly
Reaforma is working with waste that is very abundant while also building relationships with those processing waste on-site instead of collecting the waste further down the supply chain where resources are disaggregated. Their production process has been designed to be simple and have very low energy usage.