Cost-effective deconstruction by a combination of dismantling, sorting and recycling processes

The production of construction and demolition waste (CDW) is growing each year and is about 19 million tons. Luckily almost all of this material is re-used, mostly as a road foundation. This re-use can be called down cycling. In order to move from down cycling of this material to recycling (ore even up cycling) integral chain management becomes very important. Especially the early design of a construction has a great effect on the future CDW. To improve high level recycling (construction re-use, element re-use or material reuse) constructions should be designed according to the design for recycling method. These methods can be divided into three categories: 1. Design for adaptability (construction re-use) 2. Design for deconstruction (element re-use) 3. Design for dismantling (material re-use) In order to calculate the environmental effects of these designing methods, a new tool is under development: Building End of Life ANalysis TOol (BELCANTO).

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