More circular approaches and improved resource efficiency is particularly needed in the building sector due to its high waste production e.g., around 37% in the EU. Despite growing research efforts …
The XyloMatrix project presents an innovative solution to the growing challenge of managing post-consumer MDF waste. With the global increase in production and disposal of MDF-based products, current recycling methods …
Changing from linear to circular type of production and consumption requires considering how value is created and captured among the value networks, and what new roles in business ecosystems can …
The construction industry in the UK and globally creates vast quantities of wood waste. Much of this material has qualities that are lost in normal waste management. For example, recycled …
This research investigated the feasibility of using framing softwood, recovered from building deconstruction, as a feedstock for structural glulam manufacture. It covered the sourcing of timber from a demolition site; …
“How should we build today to be able to circulate tomorrow?” This is one of the main questions theInFut UReWood Project (Innovative Design for the Future – Use and Reuse …
The impact excitation resonance technique is a commonly used method for assessing the stiffness of materials by measurement of vibrational frequencies. It has proved to be a fast and reliable …
Buildings in the UK are often being demolished because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time, and intact materials be-come waste in the process (Cramer and Ridley-Ellis, …
Humanity consumes around 100 Gt of materials annually and, despite a plethora of directives and strategies designed to support the development of a circular economy, the rate of recycling, which …
