Themes
  • Furniture industry
  • Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA)
  • Recovery
Amount granted
$15,000

Description

The project will assess the system to recover and reclaim office furniture in Québec by evaluating initiatives, identifying stakeholders and creating an inventory of furniture types and their characteristics.

The obstacles and levers to the development of an office furniture recovery sector will also be identified.

National and international monitoring of the end-of-life management of office furniture and related business models will also be carried out.

Affiliated research axes

Axis 2: Planning Optimization

2.4 – Plan and optimize the production of products and delivery of services in the context of the circular economy

Axis 3: Resource and Product Maximization

3.1 – Map the knowledge and potential of product circularization

Member(s)

  • Marc Journeault

    Ph.D., CPA, MBA Full Professor
  • Mathias Glaus

    Eng., Ph.D. Professor
  • Houssein Awada

    Ph.D. Scientific director INOVEM
  • Adeline Seneclauze

    M.Urb, Urban Planner Researcher

Collaborators

Julien Potier

INOVEM

Rémy Duclos-Murphy

INOVEM

Léo Michelland

INOVEM

Irenka Van Der Star

ÉTS

Paulin Gohoungodji

Université Laval

Link.s

  • Summary of project results

  • Office furniture recovery in Québec : constraints and prospects for improvement from a circular perspective

    Webinar with the RRECQ
  • Sustainability and circularity research : transdisciplinary perspectives

    Conference at the 91st ACFAS Congress
The RRECQ is supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec.
Fonds de recherche - Québec