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Pavlikakis, Georgios E.; Tsihrintzis, Vassiliοs A.

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“…[127,129,130]. This concept aligns with the ecosystem-based approach advocated by numerous scientists and engineers in recent decades [131][132][133][134], as noted by Agee and Johnson (1989) [135], Kibert (2022) [136], SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities [137], and SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure [138], by promoting sustainable and innovative construction practices.…”

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The Potential of Recycling and Reusing Waste Materials in Underground Construction: A Review of Sustainable Practices and Challenges

Sharghi,

Jeong

2024

Sustainability

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Underground infrastructure projects pose significant environmental risks due to resource consumption, ground stability issues, and potential ecological damage. This review explores sustainable practices for mitigating these impacts throughout the lifecycle of underground construction projects, focusing on recycling and reusing excavated tunnel materials. This review systematically analyzed a wide array of sustainable practices, including on-site reuse of excavated tunnel material as backfill, grouting, soil conditioning, and concrete production. Off-site reuses explored are road bases, refilling works, value-added materials, like aggregates and construction products, vegetation reclamation, and landscaping. Opportunities to recover and repurpose tunnel components like temporary support structures, known as “false linings”, are also reviewed. Furthermore, the potential for utilizing industrial and construction wastes in underground works are explored, such as for thermal insulation, fire protection, grouting, and tunnel lining. Incorporating green materials and energy-efficient methods in areas like grouting, lighting, and lining are also discussed. Through comprehensive analysis of numerous case studies, this review demonstrates that with optimized planning, treatment techniques, and end-use selection informed by material characterization, sustainable practices can significantly reduce the environmental footprint of underground infrastructure. However, certain approaches require further refinement and standardization, particularly in areas like the consistent assessment of recycled material properties and the development of standardized guidelines for their use in various applications. These practices contribute to broader sustainability goals by reducing resource consumption, minimizing waste generation, and promoting the use of recycled and green materials. Achieving coordinated multi-stakeholder adoption, including collaboration between contractors, suppliers, regulatory bodies, and research institutions, is crucial for maximizing the impact of these practices and accelerating the transition towards a more sustainable underground construction industry.

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The Potential of Recycling and Reusing Waste Materials in Underground Construction: A Review of Sustainable Practices and Challenges

Sharghi,

Jeong

2024

Sustainability

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“…By the late 1980s, this ecosystem-based approach has been advocated by many scientists, engineers, managers and organizations, such as Agee and Johnson (1988), Kibert (2005) and US Department of Energy (USDE, 2009) [2][3][4][5]. Increasing awareness of environmental issues and negative effects from tunnel construction and operation coupled with pressures from society has led us to establish a new concept which is named as "ecological tunnel" or "eco-tunnel".…”

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Ecological Tunnel for the 21st Century: A New Conception and Methodology

Zhang¹,

Lei²,

Xue³

2011

JTTs

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This paper presents a new conception-ecological tunnel, which is contrived to meet increasingly tough challenges in the 21 st century. Ecological tunnel refers to integrating ecological principles into tunnel design, construction and operation in order to create a balanced and sustainable tunnel-nature system. It consists of four elements: green tunneling, green lighting, green lining, and green recycling of excavated material. The conception, function and implementation of each part are elaborated in the paper. In addition, computer visualization technique is applied to simulate complicated internal conditions of an ecological tunnel.

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The Ecosystem Approach to Management in Marine Environmental Governance: Institutional interplay in the Baltic Sea Region

Söderström

Kern

2017

Env Pol Gov

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This article focuses on the use of the ecosystem approach to management (EAM) in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). Based on selected criteria for EAM, the article traces and compares the impact of EAM on HELCOM's Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP), the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and the EU Maritime Spatial Planning Directive (MSPD). Starting from the assumption that institutional interplay determines the impact of the EAM on marine policies, the article examines how different forms of interplay (interplay through cognition, commitment and compliance) affect the spread of EAM and its implementation in the BSR. The study finds strong interplay between HELCOM's BSAP and the EU's MSFD. Although HELCOM is still an important player in marine governance in the BSR, since it includes Russia, taking over responsibilities for the implementation of EU legislation has repercussions and affects its independence. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Cited by 32 publications

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The Potential of Recycling and Reusing Waste Materials in Underground Construction: A Review of Sustainable Practices and Challenges

The Potential of Recycling and Reusing Waste Materials in Underground Construction: A Review of Sustainable Practices and Challenges

Ecological Tunnel for the 21st Century: A New Conception and Methodology

The Ecosystem Approach to Management in Marine Environmental Governance: Institutional interplay in the Baltic Sea Region

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