Carly Connor

Carly Connor is the founder of Green Salvaged Materials, where she focuses on advancing circularity in construction through material reuse, salvage planning, and systems integration. With a background in building restoration and engineering, she works with owners, contractors, and design teams to embed reuse into standard practice, enabling both project-level results and industry-wide transformation. Carly also leads the ReUse Collective, a platform bringing together partners across the value chain to scale material recovery, reduce carbon and waste, and accelerate Canada’s transition to a circular built environment. This session examines how retrofit, adaptive reuse, and conservation-focused design can advance climate, housing, and affordability goals. The project compares whole-life carbon and construction costs across retrofit, retrofit with addition, and demolish-and-replace scenarios using case studies in Halifax, Montréal, and Vancouver. The findings show that retaining and retro