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Demolition & Construction Management: Sustainable Design, Use of Materials and Waste Minimization

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 December 2023) | Viewed by 2863

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Andres Seco Meneses

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Engineering Department and Smart Cities Institute, Public University of Navarre, 31006 Pamplona, Spain
Interests: sustainable construction; waste valorization; soil stabilization; hydraulic and alkaline binders
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Dr. Céline Perlot

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E2S UPPA, SIAME, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, Anglet, France & Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
Interests: sustainable construction; earthen materials; waste valorization; chemical resistance; durability

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In the current context of the fight against climate change, the construction sector must limit its impact on the environment. To do this, several solutions have been identified. These include reducing the depletion of natural resources and waste by using by-products as a substitute for raw materials in construction products. These by-products can come from the construction industry (excavated soil, demolition aggregates, concrete returns, etc.) or from other industries or agriculture. In addition to limiting the use of raw materials and embodied energy, these by-products can improve the physico-chemical properties of building materials to make them more sustainable. Another option is to rationalize the use of construction materials by optimizing the design of structures, in particular through numerical simulations, or by adapting material formulations to increase their durability and resilience.

This Special Issue aims to promote the reduction of the environmental impact of the construction and building industry. This Special Issue will collaborate with this goal by means of the diffusion of original works related to the effectiveness of the management of materials in the construction and building industry, from an environmental point of view. Research and experimental works related to the consumption of the materials, materials management, use of recycled raw materials, waste minimization or environmental impact evaluation, are welcome. This Special Issue will cover the existing lack of knowledge about numerous non-conventional construction and building materials made of recycled raw materials mainly from technical and environmental points of view. This Special Issue also focuses on the innovative material management systems that could contribute to the effectiveness of materials consumption and waste valorization in the construction industry.

Dr. Andres Seco Meneses
Dr. Céline Perlot
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • waste management
  • by-product valorization
  • circular economy
  • sustainable construction
  • saving raw materials
  • environmental impacts

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Granular Skeleton Optimisation and the Influence of the Cement Paste Content in Bio-Based Oyster Shell Mortar with 100% Aggregate Replacement
by Ana Cláudia Pinto Dabés Guimarães, Olivier Nouailletas, Céline Perlot and David Grégoire
Sustainability 2024, 16(6), 2297; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16062297 - 10 Mar 2024
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The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology to optimise the granular skeleton assembly of cementitious materials containing non-spherical aggregates. The method is general and can be applied to any granular skeleton whatever the aggregate shape, size, or composition because it [...] Read more.
The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology to optimise the granular skeleton assembly of cementitious materials containing non-spherical aggregates. The method is general and can be applied to any granular skeleton whatever the aggregate shape, size, or composition because it is simply based on the direct minimisation of the intergranular porosity to consequently increase the skeleton’s compactness. Based on an experimental design approach, this method was applied to and validated for bio-based oyster shell (OS) mortar with 100% aggregate replacement. First, the best combination of seven crushed oyster shell particle classes was determined and compared with a standardised sand skeleton (0/4 mm) and three other non-optimised OS gradings in terms of intergranular porosity. In particular, it is shown that simply mimicking a reference grading curve initially designed for spherical particles with non-spherical particles led to poor performances. Then, different mortars were cast with the standardised sand skeleton, the optimised OS grading, and the three other non-optimised OS gradings by keeping the water-to-cement ratio (0.5), the aggregate bulk volume, and the cement paste content constant. Mechanical tests in compression confirmed the higher performance of the optimised OS mortar, validating the global optimisation approach. However, the high elongation of the oyster shell aggregates led to high skeleton intergranular porosities—even after optimisation—and the cement paste content needed to be adapted. For a given granular skeleton and for a constant aggregate bulk volume, the increase of the cement paste content led to an increase of both the filling ratio and the mechanical properties (compressive and flexural strengths). Finally, it is shown that the proposed skeleton optimisation and a cement paste content adjustment allowed recovering good mechanical properties for an oyster shell mortar with 100% aggregate replacement, especially in flexural tension. Full article
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Using Lean in Deconstruction Projects for Maximising the Reuse of Materials: A Canadian Case Study
by Tasseda Boukherroub, Audrey Nganmi Tchakoutio and Nathalie Drapeau
Sustainability 2024, 16(5), 1816; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16051816 - 22 Feb 2024
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The construction sector is considered a major consumer of virgin materials and a contributor to waste generation. Therefore, it is essential to rethink current waste management practices, for example, by applying circular economy principles to building demolition, such as deconstruction. Deconstruction involves dismantling [...] Read more.
The construction sector is considered a major consumer of virgin materials and a contributor to waste generation. Therefore, it is essential to rethink current waste management practices, for example, by applying circular economy principles to building demolition, such as deconstruction. Deconstruction involves dismantling a building with the aim of maintaining the highest possible value for its materials and maximising their recovery potential. This study aims to guide the construction sector towards deconstruction to support its efforts to transform itself toward a more sustainable industry. It focuses on a regional case study in the province of Québec (Canada), presenting five buildings to be deconstructed. First, this study presents the outcomes of our analysis of the current situation. Second, it identifies the issues and obstacles encountered and proposes avenues to improve the current process based on solutions identified in the literature and the recommendations of the manager, the contractor involved in the deconstruction project, as well as experts in the construction industry. Finally, it proposes an improved deconstruction process. Our research approach is inspired from Lean thinking and follows the Action Research methodology. Full article
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Global Patterns in Construction and Demolition Waste (C&DW) Research: A Bibliometric Analysis Using VOSviewer
by Emina Kristina Petrović and Caroline Ann Thomas
Sustainability 2024, 16(4), 1561; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16041561 - 12 Feb 2024
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C&DW is contributing to exceeding all planetary boundaries and presents a range of other issues. In order to better understand the existing research on C&DW, a global bibliographic analysis was undertaken through seven groups of keyword searches of Scopus and the results visualised [...] Read more.
C&DW is contributing to exceeding all planetary boundaries and presents a range of other issues. In order to better understand the existing research on C&DW, a global bibliographic analysis was undertaken through seven groups of keyword searches of Scopus and the results visualised using VOSviewer. The study identifies phases in discussion of C&DW in terms of volume and themes and examines how search terms influence what is found. The results show that C&DW receives only a modest research attention compared to other areas of waste, and this is despite an exponential increase in C&DW research since 2016. The analyses also show that concrete is the most researched material in terms of C&DW, and that reuse, recycling, and circular economy are so far attracting only proportionally modest research attention. This signals a need for further acceleration of the C&DW research, and specifically for more research on reuse, recycling, and circular economy for materials other than concrete. One important finding are differences observed when using different search terms related to C&DW, which suggests that single search studies might provide limited insights. Full article
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