About Green Salvaged Materials
Green Salvaged Materials is an innovative initiative committed to advancing sustainability in construction by repurposing existing materials. We focus on salvaging valuable building materials that would otherwise be discarded, redirecting them from landfills and reintegrating them into the construction supply chain. Our work centers on deconstruction and surplus recovery, supporting a circular economy that prioritizes resource efficiency.
Founded in 2024 through collaboration with industry partners, we offer a dedicated depot for salvaged materials along with expert consulting services. We assist clients in identifying high-value materials during demolition projects and ensure these materials are properly deconstructed and stored for future reuse.
Additionally, we partner with contractors and material suppliers to facilitate the reuse of surplus construction products. Together, we can make meaningful changes that drive significant environmental impact.
Our CEO and Founder, Carly Connor, P.Eng., CAHP, has extensive experience spanning academia, heritage masonry construction, and building consulting. Her career has focused on building restoration, heritage conservation, and demolition consulting. Carly has combined her unique perspectives and diverse experiences to bridge the gap between the restoration industry’s expertise in deconstruction and material reuse, and the broader construction sector. Her goal is to amplify existing circular practices and seamlessly integrate them into mainstream construction operations.
Carly’s first exposure to masonry occurred during a university trip to Africa, where she worked with the local community to dismantle an unused concrete block structure and repurpose the materials into an outdoor kitchen. Her academic focus was on reducing risks associated with concrete block buildings in seismic zones of developing countries, using locally available materials and reimagining building practices to create safer, more resilient structures. This foundational experience grew into her work in heritage and building restoration. Through her consulting, Carly recognized that the evolving practices of embodied carbon and circular construction in new builds shared a common language with material salvage audits, deconstruction, and reuse—practices long established in the heritage sector.
Carly serves on the Board of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP) and is Chair of the CAHP Advocacy Committee. She is also co-chair of the Association for Preservation Technology’s Technical Committee for Sustainable Preservation and the CAHP representative to the Zero Net Carbon Collaboration for Existing and Historic Buildings. Through these roles, Carly works collaboratively across organizations to advance education, policy, standards, and code development related to building and material reuse.
By drawing on her experience across multiple sectors and organizations, Carly is identifying pathways for collaboration within the construction industry. Her efforts are focused on expanding current circular economy practices and developing a reliable supply chain that can be easily adopted and integrated as standard practice across the industry.
Experience
We are a network of Contractors and Material Suppliers working together to accelerate the circular economy in the construction sector. By bringing together decades of experience in the deconstruction and reuse of materials in the restoration industry we are working to support best practices in deconstruction and material salvage to ensure viability of material reuse and make the adoption of circular building practices as easy as possible.
Green Salvaged Materials is dedicated to delivering the highest quality, most durable salvaged materials, reflecting our unwavering commitment to excellence and environmental responsibility.
