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Miguel A. Franesqui, Jorge Yepes and Samuel Valencia-Díaz
Low-energy asphalt techniques, such as warm mix asphalt (WMA), combined with the rational consumption of geomaterials and waste recycling would promote more sustainable and energy-efficient asphalt pavements. In volcanic environments, a significant propo...
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Albina Scioti and Fabio Fatiguso
The construction industry involves some of the activities with the highest consumption of raw materials and significant waste production. According to the European Commission, it requires large quantities of resources, representing approximately 50% of a...
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Maria Valean, Daniela Lucia Manea, Claudiu Aciu, Florin Popa, Lumini?a Monica Ple?a, Elena Jumate and Gabriel Furtos
The rising concern for the environment and the need for a sustainable economic model has stimulated experimentation in the field of construction materials, notably in replacing certain components from cementitious materials with construction and demoliti...
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Paulo Santos, Génesis Camila Cervantes, Alicia Zaragoza-Benzal, Aimee Byrne, Ferhat Karaca, Daniel Ferrández, Adriana Salles and Luís Bragança
Building construction accounts for a significant proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions, raw material extraction, and waste production. Applying circular economy (CE) principles in the building construction industry would considerably reduce these...
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Nurullah Bektas and Maysam Shmlls
Product sustainability has moved beyond being an elective preference to becoming a certain necessity. However, earthquakes in different regions, particularly Türkiye?Syria, Afghanistan, and Morocco, have produced a substantial amount of construction wast...
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Amanda Barros, Eva Barreira, Lino Maia and Maria Lurdes Lopes
Innovation in construction plays a fundamental role in helping us face current challenges, namely the reduction in energy consumption, the mitigation of the effects of climate change, the depletion of resources, and the generation of waste. Regarding the...
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Hamza Alkuime, Emad Kassem, Khaled A. Alshraiedeh, Manaf Bustanji, Ahmad Aleih and Fawzi Abukhamseh
This study aims to develop a framework to incorporate Waste Cooking Oil (WCO) into asphalt mixtures. Such a framework utilizes a Balanced Mix Design (BMD) approach to ensure adequate resistance to cracking and rutting. Transportation agencies can use the...
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Slawomir Czarnecki and Marlena Rudner
In the European Union, more than 20% of residential buildings were constructed prior to 1945 and are approaching the end of their projected lifespan. This necessitates renovations or demolitions of these structures. A study was conducted to analyze the q...
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Mei Zeng, Huanan Huang and Xianggang Zhang
With the widespread use of adobe materials in buildings, their durability can deteriorate under harsh weather conditions such as long-term low temperatures and rainfall, which can easily lead to safety accidents. This article takes adobe material mixed w...
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Mohsen Shamsaei, Alan Carter and Michel Vaillancourt
Construction and demolition waste (CDW) materials account for a considerable part of waste materials throughout the world. As these materials are not usually recycled, reusing them in construction projects is of major significance. In this study, recycle...
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