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Conference Proceedings "Building Material Recycling and Earth Building Materials – Perspectives for a Circular Economy in the Construction Industry" published
The symposium "Building Material Recycling and Earthen Building Materials – Perspectives for a Circular Economy in the Construction Industry" took place on the 26th of August 2022 at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. The conference proceedings are now available.
The construction industry is undergoing a comprehensive transformation process that includes both the digitalisation of planning processes and the conversion of the construction industry to a sustainable circular economy. This process poses major challenges for everyone involved in the construction industry. In the future, architects and civil engineers will not only have to master the art of material-appropriate construction, but also take the recyclability of a building into account in the design. Greater efforts must also be made to preserve existing buildings than in the past. When structures are unavoidably dismantled, technical and organisational infrastructures for recycling the construction waste generated during demolition must be established across the board.
Against this background, the aim of this conference proceedings is to draw the attention of the specialist public to the state of the art in building material recycling on the one hand and to the great potential of earth building materials in solving the problems mentioned on the other.
The symposium "Building material recycling and earth building materials - perspectives for a circular economy in the construction industry" took place onthe 26th of August 2022 at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. In the first part of the conference proceedings, the authors provide a general overview of current technical and waste law developments in the areas of building material recycling and earth building materials. In the second part, the results of the joint research project "Muster-UPD Lehm 2.0", funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation, are presented.
It is hoped that the conference proceedings will contribute to both a stronger establishment of a regionalised circular economy and a wider use of earth building materials in the construction industry. The reference book was published by Springer-Verlag.
