Recycling Waste in Construction Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Recycling is a key part of decreasing present-day waste. The reduction, reuse, and recycling of waste maintains an ecological economy by substituting crude material contributions to, and diverting waste yields out of, the monetary framework.

Due to the growing amount of residual waste, it is encouraged to apply a waste hierarchy to provide viable alternatives in managing waste and efficiently using resources to move towards a low-carbon economy. This includes the development of sustainable alternatives that can reuse different kinds of waste by formulating them into secondary materials.

Human activities, such as construction, impact the environment. Recycling waste reduces disposal costs and carbon emissions. It also helps to comply with environmental legislation and landfill restrictions. In this sense, it is important to find appropriate alternatives to ordinary Portland cement (OPC) in the field of construction.

This “Recycling Waste in Construction Materials” Special Issue solicits contributions on some of the following areas and subjects:

• Sustainable development and production considering management, instruments, methods, and processes
• Innovation processes and methodologies related to improving the productivity of waste/by-products and resource management practices
• Life cycle assessment and management of waste/by-products to improve their efficiency and productivity
• Construction and demolition waste (CDW). Properties and applications of recycled aggregates from construction and demolition waste
• Development of construction material from nontraditional concrete including waste/by-products
• Geopolymers and alkali-activated materials
• Magnesium phosphate cements
• Repairing materials
• Lightweight materials and aggregates
• Reliability studies of formulations including waste/by-products
• Aggressive environments: damage and fracture
• Long-term behavior
• Environmental assessments of construction materials including waste/by-products
• Recycling and reuse
• Landfill disposal
• Economic analysis

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

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