TY - GEN A1 - Mueller, Anette T1 - Secondary building materials from construction and demolition waste: environmental benefits and costs N2 - Due to the large quantities of construction and demolition waste (CDW) in Europe, its reuse or recycling is of particular importance. Although several countries already recycle high amounts of CDW, the use as secondary raw materials is often limited by inferior building material properties. Specific characteristics, like high porosity and low density are caused by hardened cement paste in crushed concrete and the content of mortar and plaster in brick debris. Impurities like wood or gypsum and also harmful substances like organic pollutants may be a major problem for a reuse and should be minimized. Therefore unwanted materials and impairing substances have to be separated from the secondary building material stream. This can be done during the demolition process by using techniques for selective dismantling or during the subsequent treatment of the resulting rubble. Since almost all processing steps are associated with environmental impacts, the benefits of saving natural resources by applying secondary building materials should be weighed carefully. An environmental performance evaluation was undertaken to assess different techniques for reducing gypsum in recycled concrete aggregates, aiming at a minimization of elutable sulfates. These results were compared to the environmental impacts of the extraction of natural aggregates for concrete. T2 - Progress of recycling in the built environment CY - Sao Paulo, Brazil DA - 03.08.2015 KW - Ökobilanzielle Bewertung KW - Bauschuttaufbereitung KW - Gypsum KW - Environmental evaluation KW - CDW processing KW - Demolition/selective dismantling PY - 2015 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46668 AN - OPUS4-46668 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany