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ForestValue: Environmental and economic assessment of design for recycling in wood building construction
Project
Project code: 2219NR013
Contract period: 01.03.2019
- 28.02.2022
Budget: 238,756 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: timber, wood recycling concept, wood cascading, recycling, renewable ressources
The building industry is one of the most energy and resource intensive industries. The use of wood as building material therefore offers great potential to contribute to a more sustainable building construction. However, sustainable building design currently only focuses on the production of building products, the construction of the building and its use phase. The disassembly phase and the end-of-life utilization of recovered materials are currently disregarded in the planning and design of a building. As a consequence, the majority of the recovered wood from building demolition is not suitable for an efficient and sustainable use in cascades, due to impurities and material losses during demolition and processing. However, several recycling processes for recovered wood from construction are available or in development, which would enable an efficient material use of the recovered wood, as intended by the wood cascading concept. For this reason, the research project aims to develop solutions to implement the design for recycling concept in wood construction in order to increase the quality of the recovered wood allowing its efficient use in cascades. Furthermore, new recycling technologies for the production of building products from recovered wood will be developed and tested. In the national research project "Environmental and economic assessment of design for recycling in wood building construction”, the developed design for recycling concepts will be analyzed regarding their environmental and economic performance compared to a state-of-the-art building concept. Furthermore, an environmental evaluation of the developed recycling processes will be performed and new solutions for the documentation of disassembly information for a building will be developed.
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Subjects
- Resource management
- Renewable Resources
