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Advances in Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling

Digital Technologies, Management, Processing and Environmental Assessment

  • 1st Edition - May 2, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: F. Pacheco-Torgal, Francesco Colangelo, Rabin Tuladhar, Yining Ding, Zhao Xin-Yu, Alexander Koutamanis
  • Language: English

Advances in Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling: Digital Technologies, Management, Processing and Environmental Assessment presents recent research in recycling and re… Read more

Description

Advances in Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling: Digital Technologies, Management, Processing and Environmental Assessment presents recent research in recycling and reuse of concrete and demolition waste in construction applications. The book starts with a detailed introductory section on digital technologies that are used to enhance circularity. Part Two focuses on the management of construction and demolition waste, including estimation of quantities and the use of BIM and GIS tools. Part Three reviews the processing of recycled aggregates, along with the performance of concrete mixtures using different types of recycled aggregates. Part Four looks at the environmental assessment of non-hazardous waste. This book will be a standard reference for civil engineers, structural engineers, architects, and academic researchers working in the field of construction and demolition waste.

Key features

  • Presents cutting-edge research in recycling and reuse of concrete and demolition waste
  • Discusses techniques for managing construction and demolition waste, including waste management plans, ways of estimating levels of waste, and types and location of waste recycling plants
  • Reviews key steps in handling construction and demolition waste
  • Contains an entire new section on the use of digital technologies to enhance the circularity of construction and demolition waste
  • Additional chapters are included on selective disassembly planning: robots for automatic waste sorting; laser-based sorting; usage of air jigging for multi-component separation of construction and demolition waste; and recycled asphalt (RA) for self-healing pavements

Readership

Academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists and civil engineers, architects and other professionals working in construction and demolition waste management, Postgraduate students in materials science and civil engineering disciplines

Table of contents

1. Introduction to the recycling of construction and demolition waste
F. Pacheco-Torgal

Part 1 - Digital Technologies and Management

2. A comparison study on standards for demolition waste management
Jamal Khatib

3. Challenges for circular economy in the construction industry
Juan Antonio Ferriz-Papi

4. Machine learning to classify CDW
Václav Nežerka

5. Design for building Disassembly in orde to reduce CDWaste
Mayara Regina Munaro and Vanderley John

6. Integration BIM and GIS to reduce CDWaste
Dusan Isailovic, Zorana Petojevic, Aleksandra Parezanovic, Ana Nadazdi and Nenad Visnjevac

Part 2 – Processing of CDW wastes

7. Processing Techniques of Recycled Aggregates
Salim Barbhuiya and Bibhuti Bhusan Das

8. Advancements in Foam Concrete with Recycled CDW Aggregates
H.S. Gökçe

9. Recycled aggregates for alkali-activated concretes
P. Dinakar

10. Self-compacting concrete with recycled aggregates
Víctor Revilla-Cuesta

11. Durability of concrete with recycled aggregates
Christian Paglia

12. Water permeability property of recycled compound concrete
Xin-Yu Zhao

13. Carbon uptake on mortars with recycled aggregates
Pietra Moraes Borges

14. Use of AI to predict the performance of concrete using recycled aggregates
Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga

Part 3 – Environmental Assessment and handling toxic CDW

15. Life cycle assessment of non-hazardous Construction and Demolition Waste
Berfin Bayram

16. A environmental assessment model of construction waste using BIM
Carmen Llatas

17. Management of CDW contaminated with mercury
Rafael Rodríguez

18. Hazardous components of CDW
Roumiana Assenova Zaharieva

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 23, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

FP

F. Pacheco-Torgal

Dr. F. Pacheco Torgal is a Principal Investigator at the University of Minho in Portugal. He holds the title of Counsellor at the Portuguese Engineers Association. He is a member of the editorial boards for nine international journals. Over the last 10 years he has participated in the research decision for more than 460 papers and has also acted as a Foreign Expert on the evaluation of 22 PhD thesis. Over the last 10 years he has also been a Member of the Scientific Committees for more than 60 conferences, most of them held in Asian countries. He is also a grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 15 countries, including the UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Chile, Saudi Arabia, UA. Emirates, Croatia, Poland, and the EU Commission. In the last 10 years, he reviewed more than 70 research projects.
Affiliations and expertise
C-TAC Research Centre, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal

FC

Francesco Colangelo

Francesco Colangelo is a Full Professor of Innovative Materials for Civil Engineering and the director of the master’s course in Safety Engineering in the Department of Engineering at Parthenope University of Naples, Italy. His main research areas include recycling of waste materials in concrete and geo-environmental and civil applications, treatment of MSWI fly ash, application of lifecycle assessment methodology to various processes for preparing innovative building materials, evaluation of the durability of mortars and concrete, stabilization and solidification of hazardous wastes, and synthesis of geopolymeric eco-sustainable materials based on industrial waste. He has extensive consultancy experience in the treatment and recycling of solid waste, remediation of old landfills, and resource recovery plants. He has served as the principal investigator for numerous research projects in collaboration with public and private companies. Since 2012, he has been a senior member of RILEM.

Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, MASERG – Materials Science and Engineering Research Group, Department of Engineering, Parthenope University of Naples, Naples, Italy

RT

Rabin Tuladhar

Dr. Rabin Tuladhar is an Associate Professor and Head of Engineering in the College of Science and Engineering at James Cook University, Australia. He served as Director of Engineering Studies (2018-2020) and Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching (ADLT) (2012-2018) for the College of Science and Engineering. He is a Civil Engineer, with specialization in Concrete and Structure Engineering. He has established close collaborations with local industries to conduct translational research in the areas of sustainable and innovative construction materials, durability of structures, rehabilitation of aged infrastructure and structural health monitoring.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor and Head of Engineering in the College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Australia

YD

Yining Ding

Yining Ding is Professor in the Institute of Structural Engineering at Dalian University of Technology, China. He has published over 100 papers in three languages.
Affiliations and expertise
State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

ZX

Zhao Xin-Yu

Zhao Xin-Yu, is a full Professor at the South China University of Technology, and is an expert in recycled aggregates.
Affiliations and expertise
State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P.R. China

AK

Alexander Koutamanis

Alexander Koutamanis is an Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology. He is also an executive board member of the LDE Centre for BOLD Cities.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Computational Design Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

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