Use of recycled concrete aggregates from precast block for the production of new building blocks: An industrial scale study

Z Zengfeng, L Courard, S Groslambert, T Jehin… - Resources …, 2020 - Elsevier
… Concrete building blocks are a commodity product and its profit margin is low (… raw
materials used to manufacture blocks could be virgin aggregate, lightweight or recycled materials

Understanding sustainability–the case of building blocks in Tanzania and Uganda

R Isaksson, A Buregyeya - The TQM journal, 2024 - emerald.com
block factories are not necessarily located at the sources of raw materials but deliver the
raw materials at a cost similar to that of delivering the same materials to construction sites. …

Current perspective of sustainable surfactants based on renewable building blocks

A Bhadani, A Kafle, T Ogura, M Akamatsu… - Current Opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
… or indirectly derived/developed from renewable building blocks can be broadly termed as
‘… proportion of petroleum-based raw materials with sustainably sourced renewable building

Approaches for a low-carbon production of building materials: A review

F Orsini, P Marrone - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
… of raw materials (ie clinker and stone production), phase B concerns the construction of a
building material (ie … panel to the building facade), and phases EF deal with the disposal of the …

Construction and demolition residuals as raw materials for the production of novel geopolymer building materials

F Kugler, J Aumüller, W Krcmar, U Teipel - Crystals, 2022 - mdpi.com
materials are necessary in accordance with the requirements, such as concrete, aerated …
All the building materials mentioned have in common that significant raw material and energy …

Systemic building blocks for creating and capturing value from circular economy

P Hopkinson, R De Angelis, M Zils - Resources, Conservation and …, 2020 - Elsevier
… through reduced raw material extraction … building blocks as practical heuristics to frame
circular value creation, specifically the importance of a systemic focus on four key building blocks

Biopolymer nanoscale assemblies as building blocks for new materials: A review

Y Pei, L Wang, K Tang… - … Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… In addition, oligomers and monomers from biopolymers can be obtained by pyrolysis and
hydrolysis and utilized as raw materials or as a supply of clean energy. [ 2 ] Biopolymers can …

Fundamentals of building deconstruction as a circular economy strategy for the reuse of construction materials

G Bertino, J Kisser, J Zeilinger, G Langergraber… - Applied sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
… the beautiful marbles were reworked and reused as building blocks at the base of the structure.
This … The material from ancient buildings combined the intrinsic value of the raw material

Sustainable dialdehyde polysaccharides as versatile building blocks for fabricating functional materials: An overview

W Ding, Y Wu - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2020 - Elsevier
… In addition to polysaccharides, the renewable lignocellulosic raw material is a class of …
way to yield PO-CNCs from lignocellulosic raw materials, the β-alkoxy fragmentation and further …

Ethanol as a renewable building block for fuels and chemicals

RA Dagle, AD Winkelman, KK Ramasamy… - Industrial & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… Still, building an enterprise to use it as feedstock, especially when it yields products for
which there is an existing market, is susceptible to each of Porter’s Five Forces: (24) actions or …