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Buildings, 2021 The disposal volume of material for Construction and Demolition in Europe is increasing each year, that the European Union has decided to take control of the matter unifying practices and goals to achieve. This article analyses how waste management works
Javier Cárcel-Carrasco +3 more
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Sustainable construction: construction and demolition waste reconsidered [PDF]
Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, 2009 Construction activity in Europe has increased substantially in the past decade. Likewise, there has also been a commensurate rise in the generation of construction and demolition waste (C&DW). This, together with the fact that in many European countries the rate of recycling and reuse of C&DW is still quite low has engendered a serious ...
Río Merino, Mercedes del +2 more
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Capacity gaps in post disaster construction & demolition waste management [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the identification of the existing capacities of post disaster C & D waste management in developing countries, with a special emphasis on Sri Lanka to determine the capacity gaps and related influencing
Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Karunasena, Gayani
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Quantitative and qualitative analysis of construction and demolition waste in Yazd city, Iran
Data in Brief, 2018 Construction and demolition waste is the major category of municipal solid waste that is important due to high volume and mass produced. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the quantitative and qualitative of construction and demolition waste in Yazd ...
Mohsen Ansari +1 more
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Mix Sustentável, 2020 Construction and demolition waste (CDW) represent, in mass, the largest fraction of the waste generated in many Brazilian cities. Quantifying this type of waste is an expensive task that still has to overcome some obstacles.
Rodrigo Kanno +2 more
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Handling construction waste of building demolition
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 Some building defects lead to their demolition. What about construction and demolition waste? According to the Waste Act 185/2001 Coll. and its amendment 223/2015 Coll., which comes into force on January 1, 2017, the production of waste has to be reduced
Vondráčková Terezie +2 more
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The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, 2014 The civil engineering sector has to assume among its aims the reduction of the construction and demolition waste generated by it. To this end, foreseeing the amount of construction and demolition waste to be generated, as well as the time phase in which ...
Paola Villoria Sáez +3 more
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Construction and Demolition Waste: Challenges and Opportunities
, 2022 The current production and consumption models of building materials are causing severe environmental and social problems worldwide. In this sense, construction and demolition waste (C&DW) are part of the problem and can be part of the solution ...
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Frontiers in Sustainability, 2022 Despite the relatively benign characteristics of construction and demolition waste, its mismanagement can result in considerable harm to human health for 200 million workers and those who live and work in proximity to construction and demolition ...
Ed Cook, Costas A. Velis, Leon Black
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Impact of using recycled fine aggregate from demolition waste on mechanical properties of cement mortar [PDF]
Archives of Civil EngineeringThe rapid expansion of the construction industry worldwide has led to a significant increase in resource use, hence depleting the existing reserves. Utilizing recycled aggregates might potentially reduce the use of natural raw materials in the production
Jasim Mohammed Abed +2 more
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