A team of people called the unbuilders have a project to deconstruct houses and recycle antique woods and materials.

An association founded in 2018 by Adam Corneil in the west side of Canada called the unbuilders project wishes to deconstruct houses in order to get back the valuable antique woods that were used for building homes back then and recycle as much material as possible to sell and build more houses and avoid cutting many trees down.

 If this project got more attention, it would greatly improve the greenhouse gas emissions in the air “Last year, there were 3,200 homes demolished in Vancouver, we worked on 25 of those. Something like 27 per cent of all landfill waste is from demolition.” stated Adam in an interview with The Globe And Mail news.

Their services are not only better for the environment but they’re better for your wallet too. The average house for a traditional house demolition is around 26,500$ but they only charge around 14,595$ for their services. They also generate 6 new job opportunities for every demolition project they do.

The main members that lead the team are Adam Corneil, Jeff Johnson and Dan Armishaw.

On average, they divert 4 million tonnes of waste by recycling and selling materials from houses every year.