Built to outlast what it processes.
Engineered fabric buildings for Ontario recycling, MRF and transfer-station operators — sized to your process layout, built on a purpose-designed foundation and installed turnkey by one Ontario team.
Corrosion, abrasion and daily loader traffic — planned for.
Recycling, sorting and transfer operations are hard on conventional buildings — organic acids, humidity and abrasive material attack painted steel faster than almost any other use case. A galvanized frame paired with an inert membrane holds up to that environment, and a clear span keeps conveyors, balers and loaders unobstructed by columns.
- →Foundation and pony-wall system designed and built in-house
- →Endwall doors sized to your collection and transfer trucks
- →Stamped engineering for any Ontario snow and wind zone
- →Membrane warranty terms confirmed in the issued documents
Corrosion-Resistant Envelope
Galvanized frame and inert membrane hold up to organic acids and humidity better than painted steel.
Loader and Truck Access
Clear-span floor plus endwall doors sized for the collection or transfer trucks working the site.
Room for the Process
Conveyors, sorting lines and balers laid out without designing around interior columns.
Naturally Lit Sorting Floor
Daylight through the membrane helps sorting-line visibility without relying entirely on overhead fixtures.
Process layout first. Dimensions second.
A recycling or transfer building is sized around conveyor runs, sorting stations and truck access — not a stock width. These are the inputs we use before any dimension is quoted:
- →Target clear span and length for your conveyor and sorting-line layout
- →Truck and loader access points, and endwall door sizing
- →Whether the building covers an existing tipping floor or a new pad
- →Bay separation needed between incoming, sorted and outgoing material
- →Equipment loads that affect slab or pony-wall design
- →Room to work the face of a stockpile or bunker without backing into a wall
Send those numbers and we will come back with a building size, a foundation approach and a preliminary budget range. Preliminary figures are for budgeting only — final pricing follows engineering, site conditions and the configuration you select.
Get a preliminary project budget
What retains the material matters as much as the roof.
A recycling or transfer building has to survive bulk material pressure, loader contact and wash-down at the slab edge. We design the slab and, where material needs to be retained, a perimeter pony wall — as one system with the frame — then pour it and build on it with our own crews so steel goes up on cured concrete without a scheduling gap.
- →Pony-wall height set by the material and volume being retained
- →Slab and apron graded so wash-down water is controlled, not chased
- →Hardware selected for the processing environment
- →One contract from excavation through membrane tensioning
Existing tipping floors and transfer pads can often be reused if the concrete is assessed early — a full rebuild isn't automatically required just because the cover is new.
Truck access
Endwall doors sized for the vehicles collecting or delivering material.
Existing pads
Assessed and tied into a new foundation where the condition allows it.
What we walk through before drawings start.
Drainage and wash-down
Where wash-down water and stormwater go, and how the apron is graded to keep it off the process floor.
Truck and loader approach
Turning radius, queuing and endwall clearance sized to the vehicles actually working the site.
Foundation type
Reinforced slab, with a perimeter pony wall where bulk material needs to be retained at the tipping floor.
Approvals
Permit drawings for your municipality and any environmental or site-plan conditions tied to the operation.
Drainage, truck access and material retention are what inspectors and neighbours notice most at a processing site. We plan them with the building rather than after it's up.
Different operations, the same corrosive environment.
Municipal transfer stations
Covered tipping floors and transfer bays for regional and municipal waste operations.
Material-recovery facilities
Clear-span cover for conveyor lines, sorting stations and balers without interior obstructions.
Composting and organics operations
Covered processing bays that keep material and equipment protected from weather.
Scrap yards and depot operators
Sorting and staging bays sized for loader access and bulk material handling.
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What actually moves the budget on a recycling facility project.
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Upload architectural or engineering drawings, site plans, specifications, tender documents or photos. Our Ontario engineering team reviews every submission and responds with scope, pricing and schedule.
- Architectural & engineering drawings
- Site plans and grading information
- Specifications and tender documents
- Building dimensions and photos
Tenders, RFPs and early-stage budgets all welcome
Ontario recycling & MRF buildings — answered.
Ontario recycling buildings installed Toronto · Ottawa · Hamilton · London
Tell us your layout and access needs.
We'll spec the building, design and pour the foundation and tension the membrane — one Ontario crew, one contract.
Ontario engineers on the line · quote returned within 24 business hours
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- TurnkeyEngineering · foundation · install
- OBCP.Eng-stamped to Ontario Building Code
- 25-yrMembrane warranty · 50-yr frame life