Recent Advances in Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 1903
Special Issue Editors
Interests: recycled aggregates; mortar; eco-mortar; construction and demolition waste; sustainability
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Interests: renders and plasters; sustainable construction; construction for health; durability of construction; heritage conservation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Construction and demolition waste (CDW) are produced in construction and demolition activities of buildings, infrastructures and roads, including their maintenance or rehabilitation. CDW includes a great variety of materials such as concrete, mortar, gypsum, stone, sand, soil, glass, wood, plastics and metals, among others.
CDW represent a third of the total waste produced in the European Union. It is urgent to reduce the amount of CDW generated by improving construction designs, reducing refurbishment actions and incrementing reuse of some construction materials before demolition.
The incorporation of CDW in the construction sector or others avoiding landfill must increase in a short time. Buildings and infrastructures at the end of life should be seen as sources of building materials instead of wastes to be discarded. For that, it is necessary to source materials from CDW in the development of new products instead of using natural resources. This replacement allows not only to decrease the amount of CDW sent to landfills but also the reduction in natural resources extraction.
To validate applications of CDW, it is mandatory to deeply investigate the innovation of several alternatives, namely technical, environmental and economic aspects. CDW use should reduce the environmental impacts of new products when compared with products that already exist. Environmental impacts associated with CDW should be assessed, validating their use.
This Special Issue aims to contribute with innovative solutions to reduce and recycle CDW, avoiding landfill and all the associated environmental impacts.
This Special Issue will publish high-quality, original research papers, in the overlapping fields of:- Efficient construction and reconstruction that avoid construction and demolition waste;
- New recycling methods or selective demolition processes;
- Policies and standards of building ecodesign and CDW treatment;
- Practices of CDW collection and use;
- Incorporation of construction and demolition waste as raw materials for the development of new products;
- Environment and economic impacts assessment associated with waste management, construction and demolition materials and new products with CDW incorporation.
Dr. Catarina Correia de Araújo Brazão Farinha
Dr. Maria do Rosário Veiga
Dr. Isabel Milagre Martins
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- construction and demolition waste
- reduce
- recycling
- landfill avoidance
- construction materials
- efficient construction design
- demolition design
- sustainability
- recycled aggregates
- rubble
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