Advances in Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling

Dr. F. Pacheco Torgal is a Principal Investigator at the University of Minho in Portugal. He holds the title of Counsellor at the Portuguese Engineers Association. He is a member of the editorial boards for nine international journals. Over the last 10 years he has participated in the research decision for more than 460 papers and has also acted as a Foreign Expert on the evaluation of 22 PhD thesis. Over the last 10 years he has also been a Member of the Scientific Committees for more than 60 conferences, most of them held in Asian countries. He is also a grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 15 countries, including the UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Chile, Saudi Arabia, UA. Emirates, Croatia, Poland, and the EU Commission. In the last 10 years, he reviewed more than 70 research projects.

1. Introduction to the recycling of construction and demolition wastePART I MANAGING CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE 2. Estimation of construction and demolition waste 3. An economic analysis of the processing technologies in CDW recycling platforms 4. Management of demolition waste 5. Management of end-of-life gypsum in a circular economy 6. The Effects of Data Collection method and monitoring of workers' behavior on the generation of demolition waste Koutamanis 7. Building information modeling for construction and demolition waste minimizatio 8. Identifying areas under potential risk of illegal construction and demolition waste dumping using GIS tools.PART II PROCESSING, AND APPLICATIONS OF RECYCLED AGGREGATES FROM CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE 9. Influence of the pretreatment of recycled aggregates 10. Recycled aggregates (RAs) for roads 11. Recycled aggregates (RAs) for asphalt materials 12. Self-compacting concrete with recycled aggregates 13. The suitability of concrete using recycled aggregates (RAs) for high-performance concrete 14. Influence of curing conditions on recycled aggregate concrete 15. Long term performance of recycled aggregate concrete (adiado) 16. Performance of concrete based on recycled brick aggregate 17. Recycled Household Ceramic Waste in Eco-efficient Cement: A case study 18. Self-healing concrete with recycled aggregates 19. Use of construction and demolition waste (CDW) for alkali-activated or geopolymer concrete PART III ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AFFECTING RECYCLED AGGREGATES FROM CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE 20. Detection of asbestos in CDW 21. Leaching performance of recycled aggregates 22. Life cycle assessment of non-hazardous Construction and Demolition Waste 23. Radioactivity of construction and demolition waste 24. A environmental assessment model of construction waste reduction management 25. LCA of masonry blocks with recycled aggregates 26. Use of LCA and LCC for decision between downcycling versus recycling of