Al Square Design recycles 570 tons of interior waste, cuts 550 tCO₂ in first half

Al Square Design, a firm specializing in the design and construction of office and commercial spaces, processed about 570 tons of waste generated at interior construction sites in the first half of this year through resource recycling, working alongside Jiguha, a digital waste management platform operated by Cheonil Energy.

Al Square Design handled more than 500 resource-recycling waste cases in the first half, the company said Thursday. Working with Jiguha, it processed construction site waste through material recovery and solid fuel conversion rather than landfill disposal or incineration, cutting carbon emissions by approximately 550 tCO₂.

That figure is equivalent to the carbon dioxide absorbed by roughly 82,600 mature trees over a year. "It is meaningful that our efforts to make waste management more efficient and transparent at construction sites naturally led to results in resource recycling and carbon reduction," an Al Square Design official said.

Notably, Jiguha built and deployed a dedicated waste management system tailored from the outset to Al Square Design's site operations. The system consolidates data on collection requests, vehicle dispatch, transport, processing and settlement into a single timeline. Previously, those steps were managed across multiple separate stages, but the new system allows site managers and administrators to check, on a site-by-site basis, when and where waste was generated, how much was produced and how it was handled.

Park Seong-yun, head of Al Square Design's construction management division, said the company focused on running sites efficiently and transparently rather than leading with environmental messaging. "Working with a strong partner to refine our processing systems, the results in resource recycling and carbon reduction followed naturally," he said.

Park Sang-won, chief executive of Jiguha, said interior waste management goes beyond simply completing a pickup. "You need to be able to verify through data what route the waste took and how it was processed," he said. "The Al Square Design case shows that operational efficiency on site and resource-recycling outcomes can be achieved at the same time."