Progress of Recycling in the Built Environment

Download or read book Progress of Recycling in the Built Environment written by Enric Vázquez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is a useful tool for countries starting to recycle aggregates or construction and demolition waste. It contains the latest developments in this field, introduces a completely new approach to the procedure of proportioning concrete mixtures with recycled aggregate, references recent publications, opinions and discrepancies in relation to the durability of recycled concrete, such as freeze-thaw standards, studies of chloride penetration and diffusion, and sulfate attacks, the use of the fine fraction This volume will be of interest to recyclers, researchers and consumers.