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. Francesco Colangelo is a Full Professor of Innovative Materials for Civil Engineering and the director of the master’s course in Safety Engineering in the Department of Engineering at Parthenope University of Naples, Italy. His main research areas include recycling of waste materials in concrete and geo-environmental and civil applications, treatment of MSWI fly ash, application of lifecycle assessment methodology to various processes for preparing innovative building materials, evaluation of the durability of mortars and concrete, stabilization and solidification of hazardous wastes, and synthesis of geopolymeric eco-sustainable materials based on industrial waste. He has extensive consultancy experience in the treatment and recycling of solid waste, remediation of old landfills, and resource recovery plants. He has served as the principal investigator for numerous research projects in collaboration with public and private companies. Since 2012, he has been a senior member of RILEM.Dr. Rabin Tuladhar is an Associate Professor and Head of Engineering in the College of Science and Engineering at James Cook University, Australia. He served as Director of Engineering Studies (2018-2020) and Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching (ADLT) (2012-2018) for the College of Science and Engineering. He is a Civil Engineer, with specialization in Concrete and Structure Engineering. He has established close collaborations with local industries to conduct translational research in the areas of sustainable and innovative construction materials, durability of structures, rehabilitation of aged infrastructure and structural health monitoring. Yining Ding is Professor in the Institute of Structural Engineering at Dalian University of Technology, China. He has published over 100 papers in three languages. Zhao Xin-Yu, is a full Professor at the South China University of Technology, and is an expert in recycled aggregates. Alexander Koutamanis is an Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology. He is also an executive board member of the LDE Centre for BOLD Cities.

• 1. Introduction to the recycling of construction and demolition wastePart 1 - Digital Technologies and Management2. A comparison study on standards for demolition waste management3. Challenges for circular economy in the construction industry4. Machine learning to classify CDW5. Design for building Disassembly in orde to reduce CDWaste6. Integration BIM and GIS to reduce CDWastePart 2 – Processing of CDW wastes7. Processing Techniques of Recycled Aggregates8. Advancements in Foam Concrete with Recycled CDW Aggregates9. Recycled aggregates for alkali-activated concretes10. Self-compacting concrete with recycled aggregates11. Durability of concrete with recycled aggregates12. Water permeability property of recycled compound concrete13. Carbon uptake on mortars with recycled aggregates14. Use of AI to predict the performance of concrete using recycled aggregatesPart 3 – Environmental Assessment and handling toxic CDW15. Life cycle assessment of non-hazardous Construction and Demolition Waste16. A environmental assessment model of construction waste using BIM17. Management of CDW contaminated with mercury18. Hazardous components of CDW