Lifecycle Building Center

They’ve a great mission. Keep stuff outta the dump by reusing it. I’ve made some great finds. The prices are very reasonable. Plus the money goes to help their mission. They also work to support other non profits and charities by getting them supplies and material at no cost.

This place has building supplies — new and used — for purchase. And I believe the money goes to charitable cause.
We stopped in for some underlayment.
We also found insulation. We bought a load of underlayment and insulation and saved HUNDREDS of dollars.
I highly recommend!

Not only is it a great cause, that needs our support. It’s easy to support as well. Lifecycle building center regularly save myself and friends time and money.
In addition to being an efficiency engine. Their staff is beyond top notch. Incredibly friendly, knowledgable and helpful. With their newly expanded hours to 5 days a week, I don’t know why I’m not there all the time.

Incredible building materials at great prices! Every day I see something new and am amazed at what is saved and finds a new home. Great place to work and meet awesome people!

Gritty warehouse. Big space full of stuff from kitchen sinks and bath vanities to commercial rubber baseboards and glass panels. Great for the film industry for set panels and backdrops. Buy stuff. Donate stuff. Don’t throw away!

This place is great! Stop by here first and often for your next renovation. Thank you LBC

Nice people doing a great service to the community!

What’s not to like?
It’s in a gritty, industrial, «The Walking Dead-​esque» part of town;
It has coll, recycled stuff for sale really cheaply;
The building is a tour unto itself;
It’s near Ciderfest!
It’s a 501©3, to boot!

The Lifecycle Building Center is a relatively young, local non-​profit organization whose main goal is to make each phase of a building’s life more efficient and sustainable. This is achieved by the reuse and resale of bulk building materials. Over the last five-​plus years, nearly 500,000 pounds of materials have been diverted from landfills thanks to the LBC. Talk about green. The LBC makes these materials available to schools and non-​profits for free and to the general public at deep discounts.
I attended an LBC fundraising event at Opera Nightclub (a.k.a. «The Atlanta Event Center at Opera») less than a couple weeks ago. It was entitled «RE:Purpose, A Lifecycle Celebration» (
). There was live music, drinks & food galore, and a silent auction was held. I had a good time and never knew Opera could be used for events other than clubbing and EDM concerts. The venue is actually quite nice and surprisingly clean under bright lights, though the upstairs VIP area still stinks.
Restaurants and vendors who donated food to the event included:
JCT. Kitchen & Bar — deviled eggs, cucumber salad sandwiches
Wrecking Bar Brewpub — «PB&J» chicken liver pâté & wild blueberries
Ration & Dram
The Luminary — gougere with gruyère cheese
Souper Jenny — fruit gazpacho
Pig & Pint
Leon’s Full Service — pork rillette on crostini with apple butter
Bantam + Biddy
Home Grown
The Mercantile
Affairs to Remember Caterers
The Ice Cream Bar — alcoholic ice cream
Frozen Pints Craft Beer Ice Cream
Taproom Coffee
I was impressed with the amount and quality of the food. The LBC was able to get some of the Atlanta area’s best and most popular restaurants involved. Speaking of food, I saw a video on the main stage of Jim Stacy, chef/​owner of Pallookaville Fine Foods in Avondale Estates. He spoke about the LBC and the reclaimed materials he’s used in his restaurant. Very cool.
The silent auction looked to be a success. Various items were up for bid, mostly art. Biddable items included wine racks, a pair of steampunk-​themed lamps, furniture, jewelry, gift certificates, a rock climbing class, a cooking class, a night’s stay at The Inn at Serenbe, and SunTrust Club tickets to a Braves game. While I didn’t win anything, my friends ended up winning several items.
While I’ve known about the LBC for years, this event was my first in-​person introduction to the LBC and the passionate people behind it. I think what they are doing for the community and the environment is great and I support their cause.

Finally, a building materials reuse center in Atlanta! I was pleasantly surprised to see the wide variety of materials the Lifecycle Building Center (LBC) has to offer. They have close to 40,000 square feet of warehouse filled with a little bit of everything: floor tile, kitchen cabinets, plywood, bathroom fixtures, hardwood flooring, book shelves, wood doors, windows, lighting fixtures, mantles, HVAC equipment, church pews, electrical outlets, junction boxes, brick pavers, storage bins, a Viking double oven, ductwork, wall treatments, etc. The pricing is great; the Director of Operations (Adam) indicated the pricing model is 50% of retail or less. Adam also gives great tips on how to improve the efficiency of your home; they even offer home performance improvement classes! Definitely a great find; can’t wait to go back when I move to Atlanta!

Lifecycle Building Center is one of those places that you hear about, sounds great, but you never really «get» until you visit. And once you do, you wonder why you didn’t earlier.
A must visit for all building, construction, repair, or just adventure. Better prices than you’ll find anywhere if they have something you need or want.
Also an incredible service for those who have anything to pass on rather than sending it to the landfill. Would ANYONE find it valuable? Why toss it when LBC will help redeploy it to someone to help save them money or even donate to school or charity. That’s right! School and charities can get things FREE here! And you donating and/​or shopping here supports that cause.
This place is great. The people who run it are amazing. This place needs to grow and become a huge asset for Atlanta and our community. Go there!
I needed an 8 foot white board, preferably magnetic as well. The office and facilities team told me to just order from Office Depot. Best price was more than $ 500 but not magnetic; that would be more than $ 700. I got it from LBC, DELIVERED for less than $ 100. Magnetic! And it was better for the environment and helped support a good cause!
Disclosure: I’m on the advisory board. But ONLY joined after all of the above and becoming so passionate!

If you don’t visit the LBC before you hit the big box stores or Craigslist when doing a renovation, repair or new building, you are missing out! I’ve enjoyed donating to and purchasing things here and their operation is everything that a construction and building material reuse supply chain should be! I bought a beautiful kitchen faucet, doors, windows and wood flooring for a fantastic price and found one of a kind interior design options!

Bought the exact bookshelf I have been looking for at Lifecycle Building Center yesterday. Great condition. Was a bit dusty but nothing 3 minutes of dusting couldn’t take care of. Only spent $ 30 and carried it home same day. I loved how I was able to find exactly what I wanted and felt GREAT that the money I spent went to a great cause. I wish Atlantan’s used business like this to help with reuse practices. I had a great experience. Was in and out. The staff was super helpful and I was only there about 30 minutes. I will definitely go back for any future projects.
I wish more people would donate more items so that less items would end up at landfills. I am also now interested in finding more about what can be donated. I’m an apartment dweller and will soon be a homeowner. Once I start homeowner type projects I am sure I will be a frequenter.

I’m both a LBC donor and customer. I picked up some tile for a shower project and carpet tile for the basement office. Also dropped off some flex duct and lumber I was done with. As a pack rat in need of a purge, it was great to be able to take stuff to a place where someone who needed it could find it and put it to good use.
Not only can you save a lot money on gently used materials, but your support of LBC helps keep these same materials from taking up space in landfills. Plus, they are just nice people to work with.

I have absolutely nothing but high praise for the Lifecycle Building Center. Incredibly arts friendly, I was able to save literally hundreds and hundred of dollars buying lumber and other supplies for a recent production.
Great, friendly, assistance. Great cause, great materials.
Support these fine folks.

I went to LBC the other day in search of a wrought iron gate or door to place in my garden for climbing roses and vines. Adam was really helpful and located some old burglar bars that were perfect for me. I loved being able to get something that is not at every Home Depot, and the bonus was being able to support an organization that keeps so much re-​usable stuff out of the landfill. Lots of cool old vintage looking mantles and doors but lots of new stuff too. It is huge facility and well worth a walk-​through. Highly recommend for do-​it-​yourselfers and creative types who can see alternate uses for everyday items. I want to go back and make a planter out of an old pedestal sink!

Great group, great cause, great supplies, great price. What more can I say? Oh, they also try to support and build the local community by sharing their space for art, providing community events and cleaning up the streets around the location. If you’re looking for affordable building supplies or a worthy organization to volunteer at, definitely check them out.

Lifecycle has great reclaimed building materials… cabinets, doors, tables, lighting, fixtures, and other great stuff! (Sorta like Habitat for Humanity but with more commercial, less residential wares). Lots of cool stuff for use as props or set decorating, too. This is a new start-​up nonprofit doing great work, so go check it out and support them. It’s a small operation, so business hours are usually by appointment, but they will get back to you quickly.
Their inventory will vary each time, so their Facebook page has updates about new items:

Disclaimer: My husband is on the Board of Directors.
Yesterday was the public dedication of the LBC, a new non-​profit organization focused on the recycle/​reuse of bulk construction materials. The organization is under the blanket of the US Green Building Council — Georgia Chapter (
), and they’re closely working with Southface (
). According to their executive director at the launch, Atlanta is the only major metropolitan area in the country without this kind of organization, so it’s about time we had one.
One of the tenants of sustainable building is using existing spaces as much as possible, and when that’s not possible, deconstructing those spaces in a way that the materials can be reused. That’s what the LBC will do — partner with architects and construction managers to ensure that any demolition is actually planned and organized deconstruction such that the materials are collected, and then put into this warehouse. People can then come to the warehouse to select these previously used materials for their construction projects.
As someone whose father can’t possibly throw away even a 6″ block of a 2×4, the idea speaks to a basic belief in me that can’t throw anything away that someone else might be able to use.
Touring the warehouse yesterday, they’ve got a lot of wooden cabinets that used to be in CDC labs, cool desk lamps, a leftover bar from a TGI Fridays, a plethora of whiteboards (including an executive one that’s got faux cherry wood doors with tack board space on the inside), filing cabinets, bookshelves, even pallets of bricks. I have my eye on some of the cabinets from the CDC labs, even if they are labeled «E. coli samples». I’m sure my mother-​in-​law will love that I’ve got those around her grandson… but seriously there are some nice wood cabinets that will look great in our mid-​century themed home office, and for prices that I’m willing to pay ($ 60 – 100 per module).
They’re open by appointment, primarily catering to construction managers, and artist who work with previously used materials.
If you’re the volunteer sort, and you’re interested in construction, they’re looking for volunteers to help deconstruct and then sort the materials at the warehouse. Everything they’ve got so far is due to volunteer support.
PS — This is a warehouse, and the parking lot is unpaved, so dress appropriately and beware for your cars with low clearance.
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