Recommendation guide for specifying treatment plants for construction waste
Handbook for a better understanding of Waste Management Plans. It makes it easier for professionals to draw up a Plan for their projects and to design a waste treatment plant according to the real needs of their site and the availability of recycling facilities around it.
Recycling packaging waste for thermal insulation purposes
Construction sites produce a large amount of waste from packaging, which is mostly low density. The study analyses the potential to reuse this waste to insulate the cavity walls of building facades, after a proper crushing and mixing. This is a viable option both in terms of logistics and of performance, since the availability of this type of waste is enough to match the volume of walls to insulate.
Treatment plants for waste from construction and demolition works
Analysis of alternative ways to set up facilities for treating construction and demolition waste in order to make it possible to recycling everything that cannot be directly reused on site. With a recommendation guide covering the different kinds of waste management plant that can be set up in a construction site according to its conditions: space available for waste management, quantity and type of waste, choice of building systems, distance to external waste plants, etc.
Technical actions to promote reuse, minimization and selection of waste from construction and demolition works
Strategies for controlling and reducing the heterogeneous waste generated by the construction sector in the demolition stage and also during the execution stage itself, both in new works and renovation.
Construction waste and a possible environmental quality label
In order to get more visibility for those construction products with recycled content, it has been assessed how to create a distinguishing label. It would be a Type I or Type II ecolabel that would be regulated according to ISO 14024 or ISO 14021 standards.
Analysis of hazardous substances within construction waste
Identification of the potentially hazardous products that can be found amid construction waste, mainly those of chemical origin such as admixtures, release agents, resins or sealants. For each product there is a definition of the potential sources (which tasks consume the material in question), the degree of impact (in relation to toxicity and to the volume that is generated) and best practices of management and treatment.
Strategies for the use of construction waste on the waterfront around the Besòs river
Report on the potential use of recycled materials in the waterfront improvement programme around the Besòs river, for applications such as earthmoving, breakwaters, dykes, etc. Quantifies the volume of landfill involved (how much is needed and how much is available) and defines the specifications that should meet both the final material and the recycling plant that will eventually supply it.
Harnessing construction waste
Three themes are covered: waste generated by construction (demolition techniques and reuse of waste); the construction industry as a consumer and neutralizer of waste from other industries (proposals of reuse of inert waste such as tires); neutralizing procedures based on methods used in construction.
Potential demand for construction waste disposal sites and waste management facilities
Forecast model to quantify the volume and mass of waste from construction and demolition works, aimed to the accurate definition (capacity and geographical location) of the waste management and landfill facilities required for next 5 years.
Proposal for a standard for using recycled aggregates from construction waste
Draft of a technical standard to regulate the use of recycled aggregates and ensure standards of quality and safety.
