Omer Damdelen
Girne American University, Cyprus
Title: Improving the usage of Recycled Coarse Aggregate in Sustainable Building Concrete for Thermal Mass
Biography
Biography: Omer Damdelen
Abstract
In recent years, in a drive construction industry for more environmental-friendly, better solutions to manage demolition wastes (C&D) were explored. Recycled coarse aggregates are hard inert materials mostly provided from construction and C&D. Construction materials are highly criticized by their ecological properties. Concrete recycling achieves importance because it provides to minimize the applying natural resources and minimizes the required for disposal by applying the readily available concrete as an aggregate source for modern concretes. On the other hand, one of the challenges in sustainable development is to optimize the energy efficiency of buildings during their lifespan. Nowadays the applying of different types of cement materials in modern concretes provide low embodied CO2 with the intrinsic property called “thermal mass†that reduces the risk of overheating in the summer and provides passive heating in the winter for buildings. Specially, GGBS can be improved the thermal properties hence Thermal mass of Sustainable concrete. The combination of GGBS and RCA content concrete can be useful for building concrete. The results contribute to the examination of the thermal dynamic properties performance in Sustainable Concrete.