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Reusability Assessment of Obsolete Reinforced Concrete Structural Components

Devènes, Julie Rachel  
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Bastien Masse, Maléna  
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Küpfer, Célia Marine  
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2023
Building for the Future: Durable, Sustainable, Resilient - Proceedings of the fib Symposium 2023
fib Symposium 2023

The production of concrete, the most widely used construction material, detrimentally affects the environment. Obsolete reinforced concrete (RC) load-bearing structures, even when still in good condition, are today prematurely crushed and landfilled or recycled into new concrete mixes. Little known and rarely implemented, the reuse of RC structural components is an alternative strategy towards more circularity in the construction industry. Since 2021, RC component reuse has been implemented in a series of construction and deconstruction projects in Switzerland. This paper identifies existing process sequences for RC-reuse projects and proposes one that involves a new assessment procedure to evaluate the reusability of the components early on and facilitate their future reuse planning. The paper discusses the application of this procedure to three deconstruction projects. Results are encouraging with regard to the durability of RC components. Almost 90% of the RC components of a building could be reused for new purposes with the same stability and exposure as in the donor building.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-32519-9_42
Author(s)
Devènes, Julie Rachel  
Bastien Masse, Maléna  
Küpfer, Célia Marine  
Fivet, Corentin  
Date Issued

2023

Publisher

Springer

Published in
Building for the Future: Durable, Sustainable, Resilient - Proceedings of the fib Symposium 2023
ISBN of the book

978-3-031-32518-2

Total of pages

10

Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering

Volume

349

Start page

440

End page

449

Subjects

Circular Economy

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Existing Structures

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Reuse

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Reinforced Concrete

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
fib Symposium 2023

Istanbul, Turkey

June 5-7, 2023

Available on Infoscience
June 13, 2023
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/198249
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