Chalmers Conferences, LCM 2013

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS BY REUSE AND RECYCLING
A. Pertl, G. Obersteiner

Last modified: 2014-09-11

Abstract


Environmental impacts of the construction industry are of high relevance
worldwide. A possible way to lower the environmental impact is to raise the
recycling quota in the end-of-life-phase, the recycling content of the input
materials and to enable reuse of construction materials. Data is based on
European case studies conducted within the FP7-funded ZeroWIN project.
The paper presents GWP-results for the improvement of three different
materials compared to the state of the art. Reuse could be identified as best
option to reduce the impact on climate change.

Keywords


LCA; reuse; recycling; construction; demolition

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