Technological and Digital Innovation Engineering applied to the Built Environment

The principles of the Circular Economy and sustainable development and sustainable use of resources. The 17 SDGs of the United Nations 2030 agenda. Natural resources and from recycling actions. Renewable and non-renewable resources. Principles of industrial symbiosis. Definition and recovery of recycled materials and the principles of Urban Mining. Natural solid materials: classification of raw materials and regulatory aspects. Characterization and quality of natural materials. Characterization and quality of construction waste and products resulting from demolition actions. Comminution of CDWs: principles, processes and logic of control and analysis. Classification of CDWs: principles, processes and logic of control and analysis. Separation of CDWs: principles, processes and logic of control and analysis. CDWs selection: principles, processes and control and analysis logic. Intended use of recycled aggregates. Analysis of circuits for the valorization of CDW.

No prerequisites are required.

Handouts, notes and bibliographic materials prepared and distributed by the professor of the course. Advances in Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling, Editor(s): Fernando Pacheco-Torgal, Yining Ding, Francesco Colangelo, Rabin Tuladhar, Alexander Koutamanis, In Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering, Woodhead Publishing, 2020, ISBN 9780128190555, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819055-5.09989-7. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128190555099897)

Not Mandatory. but it is recommended.

Verification of knowledge and ability to solve operational problems related to the treatment of CDWs.

Lectures and frontal exercises.