Sustainability in building and construction within the framework of circular cities and european new green deal. The contribution of concrete recycling

A Bonoli, S Zanni, F Serrano-Bernardo - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Climate change and ecological crisis are a huge threat to Europe and the world. To
overcome these challenges, Europe adopted the New Green Deal as a strategy …

Cleaner production of concrete by using industrial by-products as fine aggregate: A sustainable solution to excessive river sand mining

KG Santhosh, SM Subhani, A Bahurudeen - Journal of Building …, 2021 - Elsevier
River sand is commonly used as a fine aggregate in concrete. Due to the restriction for the
use of river sand in several parts of the world to protect river beds, the demand for alternative …

Recycling of construction and demolition waste for producing new construction material (Brazil case-study)

M Contreras, SR Teixeira, MC Lucas, LCN Lima… - … and Building Materials, 2016 - Elsevier
Construction and demolition waste corresponds to 50% of all urban solid waste, usually it is
dumped in improper places. This work reuses this waste as substitute of natural aggregate …

Utilization of alternative sand for preparation of sustainable mortar: A review

A Srivastava, SK Singh - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
The rapid urbanization and industrialization in last few decades has led to depletion of the
construction materials like sand and accumulation of industrial wastes. The detrimental …

Effects of concrete waste on characteristics of structural fired clay bricks

O Gencel, E Erdugmus, M Sutcu, OH Oren - Construction and Building …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study focuses on evaluation of concrete waste in the production of fired clay brick.
Ground concrete waste powder was replaced with the clay up to 15% by weight. Samples …

Synergic effect of recycled aggregate, fly ash, and hydrated lime in concrete production

SR da Silva, J de Brito… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of construction and demolition waste (CDW) as recycled aggregate (RA) and fly ash
(FA) in the composition of cementitious materials can make the resulting concrete more …

Behaviour and properties of eco-cement pastes elaborated with recycled concrete powder from construction and demolition wastes

L Caneda-Martínez, M Monasterio, J Moreno-Juez… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
This work analyses the influence of fine concrete fractions (< 5 mm) of different natures—
calcareous (HcG) and siliceous (HsT)—obtained from construction and demolition waste …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of pores on the mechanical and durability properties on high strength recycled fine aggregate mortar

R Martínez-García, MIS de Rojas, P Jagadesh… - case studies in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Larger consumption of natural fine aggregates (NFA) leads to an increase in cost, energy,
and negative environmental impact. On the contrary, the larger production of construction …

Feasibility of incorporating recycled fine aggregate in high performance green lightweight engineered cementitious composites

Y Zhou, G Gong, Y Huang, C Chen, D Huang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
The high-quality reutilization of recycled concrete aggregate, particularly the valorization of
recycled fine aggregate (RFA) that exhibits inherent defects, is of great importance to …

Utilisation of construction and demolition waste as cemented paste backfill material for underground mine openings

T Yılmaz, B Ercikdi, H Deveci - Journal of environmental management, 2018 - Elsevier
This study presents the utilisation of finely ground construction and demolition waste (CDW)
as partial replacement (5–15 wt.%) to sulphide tailings on the short-and long-term strength …