Determining the Potential for Recovery, Reuse and Recycling of Construction and Demolition Waste Assisted by High Frequency Electromagnetic Field

Construction and demolition projects are large waste generators, being a sensitive issue for any EU country that has to comply with Directive 2008/98 / EC, recycling of which is a subject of global interest. In this work demolition waste resulted from both civilian and industrial residential complexes was considered. The most important milestone was the identification of waste (wood, concrete, masonry, gypsum, granular waste (ballast, sand), iron etc.) in order to focus on recycling. The experiments performed showed that, in the demolition stages, concrete wastes are the most important and have the largest volume accounting for 57.3 % of the total waste of a building. Identifying methods for reducing waste resulting from construction through recovery, reuse and recycling will increase the percentage of green buildings and give a boost to the stagnant construction market since the last global crisis. In this work, a series of laboratory tests were performed using the high frequency electromagnetic field to determine the performance properties of the identified materials to assess their potential use.