Recent Development in Utilization of Waste Ash for Construction Materials

Dear Colleagues,

The use of waste ash for construction purposes reduces landfilling and enhances the sustainability criteria. This research field represents an important issue, both for the scientist community and society.

The potential use of waste ash depends not only on its contents of hazardous compounds, but also on, for example, many elements for the development of novel alternative binders to Portland cement.

The purpose of modern alternatives to conventional construction materials, including the integration of sustainable and environmental criteria, such as light-weight materials, isolating materials, alternative binders and façades, the improvement of the corrosion qualities of steel-bar-reinforced concrete, the reparation of construction materials (including durability aspects) and many other properties, is to address important issues regarding global tendencies to avoid CO₂ release through developments and the design of treatments.

This Special Issue aims to focus on novel perspectives regarding the use of waste ash for the development of construction materials, as well as the use of modern characterization techniques, such as MAS-NMR, FT-IR, nanoindentation, SEM, ITZ, etc. Moreover, the Special Issue encourages studies related to the functional properties of the final products, including comfort in buildings, the improvement of energy consumption in buildings by reducing the use of HVAC systems, acoustic behavior, fire-proof properties, etc.

Topics discussed within this Special Issue should focus not only on modern methods, technologies and further applications of developed materials, but also on the properties after service in long-term studies for durability and environmental assessments.

Dr. Jessica Giró Paloma
Prof. Dr. Joan Formosa Mitjans
Guest Editors

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