ReBuild

Inspiration

Construction projects generate enormous amounts of surplus material. Doors, flooring, lumber, fixtures, tiles, windows, and furniture are often left over at the end of a project and can become waste because there is no efficient way to find their next use.

We realized that the problem is typically lack of connections between contractors and information.

A contractor may have hundreds of unused doors sitting on one site, while another contractor nearby is purchasing the same materials new. We wanted to build a system that connects these two sides and reduce the waste.

The solution is “ReBuild”

What it does

ReBuild is a B2B platform for construction companies to manage, discover, and reuse surplus building materials.

A company can create projects, add surplus materials to its inventory, and publish them to a marketplace with information such as quantity, condition, price, location, and availability.

Other businesses can then search for materials based on their needs, request available inventory, and complete a transfer.

ReBuild also tracks the impact of each transaction, including material reused, value recovered, and estimated waste diverted.

How we built it

We built ReBuild as a web application.

The application provides interfaces for Inventory, payment, manages the relationships between companies, projects, materials, listings, and transactions, ... ect.

We designed a realistic B2B system rather than treating surplus materials as second-hand products.