Woodhead Publishing Advances in Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling: Management, Processing and Environmental Assessment (Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering)

Advances in Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling: Management, Processing and Environmental Assessment is divided over three parts. Part One focuses on the management of construction and demolition waste, including estimation of quantities and the use of BIM and GIS tools. Part Two reviews the processing of recycled aggregates, along with the performance of concrete mixtures using different types of recycled aggregates. Part Three looks at the environmental assessment of non-hazardous waste. This book will be a standard reference for civil engineers, structural engineers, architects and academic researchers working in the field of construction and demolition waste. Review Discusses the latest updates on advances in construction and demolition waste recycling From the Back Cover The high volume of construction and demolition waste (CDW) generated today constitutes a serious environmental problem that needs to be dealt with. Currently, the European construction sector produces around 890 million tonnes per year. The Amended Waste Framework Directive has established a target that 70% of CDW should be recycled by 2020, but with the exception, of a few Member States, only 50% is being recycled meaning that it will be extremely hard to meet that target. Advances in Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling: Management, processing and environmental assessment is divided over three parts. Part 1 focuses on the management of construction and demolition waste, including estimation of quantities, and the use of BIM and GIS tools. Part 2 reviews processing of recycled aggregates as well as the performance of concrete mixtures using different types of recycled aggregates. Part 3 looks at the environmental assessment of non-hazardous waste. The book will be a standard reference for civil and structural engineers as well as architects and academic researchers working in the field of construction and demolition waste. About the Author F. Pacheco-Torgal is a Principal Investigator at the University of Minho, Portugal. He holds the title Counsellor from the Portuguese Engineers Association. He has authored more than 300 publications, 119 in Scopus and 107 in Web of Science-WoS. His publications have been viewed or downloaded almost 500,000 times. He currently holds the record for the highest Platinum SCI h-index and the highest K-index in the field of Civil Engineering in Portugal. He is in the Top 10 Platinum SCI h-index in the world for the field of construction and building materials. He is a member of the editorial board for 9 international journals, 5 referenced on Web of Science and two referenced on Scopus. He currently holds the record for the highest ratio (papers handled as editor/year) in the field of Civil Engineering in Portugal. He has acted as a Foreign Expert in the evaluation of 18 PhD thesis. In the last 10 years he has been a Member of the Scientific Committee for almost 60 conferences most of them in Asian countries. He is also a grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 13 countries, UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia, UA. Emirates, Poland and, the EU Commission. He has also been an invited reviewer for 125 international journals and has reviewed almost 1000 papers. His review record places him at the Top 0.1% between 2 million reviewers registered in Publons. He currently ranks second place between more than 10.000 reviewers in civil engineering. He has been leading editor of 22 international books published by Woodhead Publishing, Elsevier and Springer, 10 being on the Master Book List of Web of Science. He currently holds the record for having the highest number of books indexed in WoS in the field of Civil Engineering in Portugal. Two of those books are the Scopus most cited ever in the field of Civil Engineering in Portugal. Yining Ding is Professor in the Institu