New building elements made out of recycled materials for economical housing

ROSANA GAGGINO

Architectural Science Review

Department of Architectural and Design Science, University of Sydney

Lugar: Sydney; Año: 2003 vol. 46 p. 49 - 54

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This Journal is indexed by Architectural Periodicals at Columbia University, British Ceramic Abstracts, British Technology Index, BRIX (British Building Research Establishment), Building Manager Abtracts, BuilDIR (Construction Information Systems), CIS Abstracts (Centre International d´Information de Securite et Hygiene du Travail), COMPENDEX (Engineering Index, USA), EINS (Eurepean Information Network Service), Gale Publications, HERA (Heritiage and Environment), IBR (Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Literatour), IBSEDEX (International Building Services Abstracts), Building Services Research and Information Association in the UK), ICONDA (International Council for Building Research Studies and Documentation, CIB). Abstract: This work comes into being as a result of the search for "new materials" to manufacture building elements for low income housing. These materials (peanut husk and polyethylene) are recyled out of agricultural and industrial residue and replace the madder and thick sand of common concrete agglomerated with Portland Cement. This recycling process meets three intentions: to lower costs, to make the environment-contaminating waste useful and to generate jobs for an unemployed and non-qualified labor force. This is, in consequence, an economical, ecological, socially-oriented proposal.