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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

M. Honic, I. Kovacic, H. Rechberger:
"BIM-Based Material Passport (MP) as an Optimization Tool for Increasing the Recyclability of Buildings";
Talk: enviBUILD 2017 - Buildings and Environment, TU Wien, Wien (invited); 09-07-2017 - 09-08-2017; in: "Proceedings of the 12th International enviBUILD 2017 Conference", Applied Mechanics and Materials, 887 (2017), ISSN: 1662-7482; 327 - 334.



English abstract:
Building stocks and infrastructures are representing the largest material stock of industrial economies, whereby the largest fraction of building materials is transformed into waste at the end of the life cycle. In order to optimize the recycling potential of buildings, new design-tools and methods are required, whereby it is of utmost importance to have a documentation of the material composition of buildings. In this paper, the methodology for creating a BIM-based Material Passport, enabling optimization of the design of buildings and serving as a documentation of materials existing in buildings, is described. Therefore, a specific building component - the flat roof - of a residential building is used in order to test the proposed tool-chain and show the recycling potential of the built-in materials. Thereby, the recycling potential of a version in timber construction and a version in concrete construction is assessed. The results show that the two versions have a similar recycling rate. However, concrete has a significantly higher mass in comparison to timber, by what the mass of the total waste materials is less in the timber version.

Keywords:
Material Passport, BIM, Circular Economy, Recyclability of Materials


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/887.327


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