ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS BY REUSE AND RECYCLING

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.