Recycling concepts and the index of recyclability for building materials

Vefago, Luiz H. Maccarini; Avellaneda, J.

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2012.12.015

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“…The waste generated by construction in the European Union, is estimated at approximately 180 billion kg per year and approximately 75 % of the construction and demolition waste go to landfill sites and are thus not currently recycled or re-used. (Vefago and Avellaneda 2013).…”

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Assessment of the energy savings and $$\hbox {CO}_{\varvec{2}}$$ CO 2 emissions reduction of glass structures through alternative demolition scenarios

2016

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Glass is a material that has been significantly increasing its role in architecture in recent decades. Although glass is a material that can survive long, as can be seen from the archaeological pieces in many museums, in practice the glass structures that built nowadays have a finite life time. A notorious case is the original New York Apple Cube, which was removed and replaced within several years of original completion. Whatever the eventual lifetime of the structure, there will be a point where the structure needs to be demolished. This introduces critical questions about the relation between ecological impact and the demolition methods and procedure. This paper looks at the eco-impact of different end of life scenarios of glass structures, using the Haarlem glass cube as a well-documented example to determine the differences between various ends of life scenarios.

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“…They don't need to serve in the same function as in their previous life cycle (Vefago and Avellaneda 2013). Recycling of wastes, is very important in order to reduce landfill space, energy consumption, raw material consumption and depletion of finite resources as well as the environment in general.…”

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Assessment of the energy savings and $$\hbox {CO}_{\varvec{2}}$$ CO 2 emissions reduction of glass structures through alternative demolition scenarios

2016

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“…manufacturing, recycling, etc.) as studied by Saghafi and Teshnizi [4], by Thormark [22], by Karimpour et al [23] and by Vefago and Avellaneda [24]. Together, these studies outline that depending on the scope of study, single or multiple midpoints and endpoints can be used to evaluate environmental impacts of buildings.…”

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A sustainability assessment of advanced materials for novel housing solutions

Samani

Mendes

Leal

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Building and Environment

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Material selection is a key step in product design and typically aims at identifying the most suitable material that meets product performance goals at minimum cost. In recent years research has been driven for developing sustainable solutions at competitive costs. This work evaluates the sustainability of advanced sandwich-structured composites for novel housing solutions. Five polymer matrix composite sandwich materials have been selected and compared concerning mechanical, thermal, acoustic and fire performance as well as cost and environmental impact, in order to study both the technical viability and the sustainability of lightweight solutions for prefabricated structural wall panels as well as for new housing; this included mechanical and fire testing of the selected materials. Subsequently, the thermal and acoustic properties of the alternatives were obtained. After performing a cost analysis and environmental assessment, the results of the tests and analyses led to a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA); PROMETHEE II (preference ranking organizational method for enrichment evaluation) was used to identify the best alternative. Finally the proposed solution was compared with a typical brick house performance. Higher specific strength, better thermal insulation and lower environmental impacts arose as the main advantages of the proposed structures while acoustic properties and fire safety still need to be improved.2

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“…sawdust, sawmill particles, wastes from panel edging, particles) and post-consumer waste wood (e.g. used furniture, demolition wood, window frames and wood-based panels, palettes, boxes, solid wood packaging) have become a widely recognized feedstock for wood-based composite industry (Hillring et al 2007;Merl et al 2007;van Benthem et al 2007;Vefago and Avellaneda 2013;Diyamandoglu and Fortuna 2015;Kurowska 2015Kurowska , 2016. Some countries in Europe use waste wood, especially post-industrial wastes, for the production of particleboards.…”

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“…Kim and Song (2014) report the environmental aspects like reduced amount of carbon dioxide and energy savings when recovered wood is looped to production. The review papers mainly consider a reuse of the waste plywood without its transformation (Vefago and Avellaneda 2013;Diyamandoglu and Fortuna 2015). Czarnecki et al (2003) investigated substitution of industrial particles in particleboard manufacturing for the particles recycled from UF-and PF-bonded raw and laminated particleboards as well as for the particles from UF-bonded MDF.…”

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Properties of particleboard produced from post-industrial UF- and PF-bonded plywood

Laskowska

Mamiński

2017

Eur. J. Wood Prod.

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An approach based on the recycling of waste plywood as a recovered wood resource for the particleboard industry is described. It is demonstrated that post-industrial urea-(UF) and phenol-formaldehyde (PF) bonded plywood can be effectively shredded to the form of the recovered particles that can be a valuable material in particleboard manufacturing. The effects of shredding conditions and binder type on the recovered particles characteristics and the mechanical properties of the particleboards were analyzed. It is shown that the substitution of 20-100% of virgin particles with the recovered material is possible without affecting the performance of the particleboard.

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Recycling concepts and the index of recyclability for building materials

Cited by 71 publications

References 10 publications

Assessment of the energy savings and $$\hbox {CO}_{\varvec{2}}$$ CO 2 emissions reduction of glass structures through alternative demolition scenarios

Assessment of the energy savings and $$\hbox {CO}_{\varvec{2}}$$ CO 2 emissions reduction of glass structures through alternative demolition scenarios

A sustainability assessment of advanced materials for novel housing solutions

Properties of particleboard produced from post-industrial UF- and PF-bonded plywood

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