Waste management and block production of recycled material in situ in a building of intermediate scale in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina

CARUSO, SUSANA; MÜHLMANN, SUSANA; KOZAK, DANIEL; YAJNES, MARTA; KOZAK, ALEJANDRA

Sevilla

Congreso; 3rd International Congress on Sustainable Construction and Eco-Efficient Solutions; 2017

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de Sevilla

This paper describes sustainable operations on recycling construction and demolition waste, applied to the construction of a multifamily housing. The stage of consultancy and training for making masonry blocks was based on the Centro Experimental de la Produccion, CEP from Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo, public local university, and approach for in situ material production. From a local building tradition rooted in masonry, the previuos CEP research selected and developed mixtures of concrete including remains of demolitions and other recycled materials such as expanded polystyrene, selected and processed to improve weight, thermal properties, carbon footprint reduction and overall structure lightening by avoiding materials transfer and virgin products use.