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Recycling 

of building materials 

in Europe 

EQAR-Congress 

26/27 May 2011 in Brussels 

Proceedings 

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Contents 

Opening and welcome 

Manfred Wierichs 

President European Quality Assosiation for Recycling e. V. 

Welcome address 

(were not available at the time of going to press) 

Ulrich Paetzold 

Director General FIEC - 

Verband der Europäischen Bauwirtschaft, Brussels 

How good functions recycling in Europe? 

Günter Gretzmacher 

President Österreichischer Baustoff-Recycling Verband, Vienna 

EU targets: Sustainability means recycling 

(were not available at the time of going to press) 

Jo Leinen 

Chairman of Environment Committee 

Recycling of building materials as seen by the Belgian 

building industry 

Erwin Vanlaere 

Confederatie Bouw, Brussels 

European setting for the recycling of building materials 

Manfred Fuchs 

European Commission DG Environment, Brussels 

EU targets - Waste avoidance and recycling 

Gunther Wolff 

European Commission DG Environment, Brussels 

Recycling - Future or present? 

Frank Dupré 

Vice President Zentralverband Deutsches Baugewerbe, Berlin 

Establishing building materials recycling - Cyprus example 

Panagiotis Alaveras 

President The Cyprus Recyling Association (CRA), Limmasol 

Building materials recycling in Great Britain 

Beverley Parrish 

Waste Sector Director WSP UK 

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Contents 

Recyclable building materials - Constribution of the building 

materials industry to sustainability 

Anna Braune 

Senior Consultant PE International AG, Stuttgart 

Current state of European standards for recycled building 

materials 

Harald Hirnschall 

Member of CEN/TC 351, Brussels 

List of authors 

List of Attendees 

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President European Quality 

Assosiation for Recycling e. V. 

Opening and welcome 

Ladies and gentlemen, 

Permit me to welcome you cordially on behalf of the European 

Quality Association of Recycling at our congress on “Recycling of 

building materials in Europe”. In particular, I welcome Mr. Jo Leinen, 

the Chairman of the Environment Committee of the EU Parliament. 

Equally I welcome cordially Mr. Manfred Fuchs and Gunther Wolff 

as representatives of the EU Commission. 

My next regards go out to Confereratie as host, today represented 

by Mr. Erwin Van Laere, whom I would like to thank, in particular, 

for receiving us so friendly in his house. 

And I would like to thank the President of the European Construction 

Industry Association FIEC, Mr. Paetzold, whom I cordially 

welcome and the whole FIEC offi ce. 

Last not least our regards and thanks go to Karin Roegge and her 

team of the Brussels offi ce of the Central Association of German 

Trade for their friendly support in preparing this event. 


I am especially pleased that you as representatives of numerous EU 

member states with your visit express your interest in recycling of 

building materials in Europe. We Europeans – so we could think – 

live on an island paradise. We live in peace, under stable and democratic 

political conditions as well as in one of the richest regions of 

our world. 

In spite of this we have to be worried about the global situation in 

more than one point. In particular, the ecological conditions seem 

to quickly aggravate on our planet. The climate change threatening 

or already started is only one facet of the global ecological crisis 

approaching. 

The cause for the ecological threat is, on the one hand, certainly 

the unrestraint growth of the world population which according 

to a report published only some weeks ago by the United Nations 

will exceed the 7 billion limit in autumn of this year. Apart from the 

population density the consumption of resources is decisive for the 

aggravation of the ecological conditions. Here, the conditions existing 

in the individual world regions are highly different and notably 

the industrial countries with their highest per-capita consumptions 

contribute remarkably to causing the ecological problems. 

The WWF defi ned the ecological foot-print of mankind as the ratio 

between using natural resources and the regenerative ability of 

our planet. In accordance with this we consume, for the time being, 

about 150 % of that what our planet may make available in the 

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long term. That means, we live beyond our means and in a destructive 

way on the substance of our planet. If we will not change 

our way of life and management we will inevitably be heading for 

disaster. 

That means, we do not have an alternative to a drastic correction 

of the course and have to distinctly restrict our consumption of 

resources in accordance with a sustainable use of our planet. 

If we would like to maintain qualitatively our high living standard 

in Europe we will have to use the resources in a more effi cient and 

intelligent way in future than so far. We have to tread the path to 

recycling, to not waste the resources and to dispose of them as 

waste but to use every possibility of using them further and recycling 

them. 

The largest use of resources as to quantity is to be found in extracting 

mineral building materials and soils. 

At the same time, mineral waste is by far the largest fraction of 

waste in Europe. When restoring worn infrastructure or demolishing 

buildings the mineral resources contained in these structures 

were in the past disposed of as waste and, at the same time, large 

quantities of mineral resources were taken from nature to erect 

new structures. 

However, in the sense of “urban mining” high-quality mineral 

building materials may be extracted from existing structures. It is 

a requirement of sustainability to reach a large recycling of mineral 

resources by recycling of building materials. 

That is why we welcome explicitly the actual initiatives launched 

by the EU Parliament and the EU Commission to use resources 

effi ciently and to promote the life cycle idea for buildings. The EC 

Waste Framework Directive is an important step on this way which 

requires a recycling quote of at least 70 % of mineral waste in all 

member states until the year 2020. 

Today we would like to take stock of recycling of building materials 

in Europe together with you discussing how to implement the joint 

target of recycling. I am looking forward to exciting contributions 

from our high-carat reporters and to a European exchange of experiences 

and opinions on recycling of building materials. 

I wish that we shall have an interesting event and thank you cordially 

for your attention! 

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President Österreichischer 

Baustoff-Recycling Verband, 

Vienna 

How good functions recycling in Europe? 

The European economy is at present determined by catchwords as 

e.g. 

“urban mining” 

“rear earths” 

“resource effi ciency package” 

“raw material initiative” 

and regulations such as: 

- Waste Framework Directive 

- Construction Products Directive 

with recycling of residual mineral building masses being rated 

highly. 

Recycled building materials are high-quality secondary raw materials 

the elimination of which on dumps is to be prevented. 

The construction industry is responsible for the biggest waste fl ow 

resulting from demolition materials, road repair, excavations, scrap 

and wear and packaging materials. 

Yet, the construction industry requires also the biggest quantity of 

raw materials due to the construction activities growing further. 

We can proceed on the fact that, for the time being, the potential 

for replacing natural building materials by recycled building materials 

totals approx. 10 – 25 %. 

Using recycled building materials requires 

- ecological 

- social 

- economic 

and 

- moral considerations. 

Our economy, also recycling, is market-oriented and depends on 

the price! 

Recycling of low-priced materials such as recycled mineral building 

materials in Europe concentrates on local conditions. 

In general, using recycled products is restricted to a radius of up 

to 50 km, thus depending on the local market prices, raw material 

deposits and demand for building materials. 

That is why the problem is faced if recycled building materials may 

be competitive in a free market economy. 

The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Austria are to 

be considered as pioneer countries. 

The recycling quote of these countries is already also remarkably 

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higher than the 70 % quote required until 2020 according to the 

Waste Framework Directive. 

In lowland regions quarry materials are scarce and that is why each 

recycled mineral product is sought after and certainly also economically 

successful. 

In Austria recycling became only possible by adopting a dumping 

tax (contaminated site remediation fee). 

Thus, the production and use of recycled building materials (recycling) 

requires various prerequisites: 

1) political will (EU, countries) 

2) legal and normative complexes of rules (EU, countries) 

3) implementation of the guidelines (countries) 

4) guiding measures (countries) 

5) control (countries). 

In Austria we have an exemplary instruction relating to recycled 

building materials which was concerted with the Ministry for the 

Environment, is contained in the Federal Waste Management Plan 

and has been taken as an example by several new EU member 

countries. 

That is why the production and quality assurance system is regulated. 

To close the cycle the market for less high-quality materials 

such as e.g. recycled brick wall products has still to be worked on 

or guiding measures (e.g. obligatory proportionate use of recycled 

building materials as envisaged in the Construction Products Directive) 

have to be taken. 

In many countries of the EU the political will does not yet exist. 

That means: 

a) The dumping instruction has not yet been implemented so that 

dumping of residual construction masses is very “cheap”. 

b) The separate collection of residual mineral construction masses 

has not yet been regulated. 

c) The EU standards for aggregates (including recycled building 

materials) are not applied. 

d) The application is not legally regulated. 

e) Acceptance is lacking. 

f) An organization pursuing lobbyism is lacking. 

Though qualitatively equal natural construction materials are 

mostly essentially more expensive than recycled building materials 

residual mineral building masses collected unmixed are scarcely 

available. In many European countries reaching the 70 % quote 

until 2020 is a dream. 

As EQAR we invite all representatives of companies, recycling associations 

etc. interested in building up recycling in their countries to 

join EQAR in order to benefi t from the experience gathered by its 

member countries. 

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Erwin Vanlaere 

Confederatie Bouw, Brussels 

Recycling of building materials as seen 

by the Belgian building industry 

1. Construction and Demolition Waste – Facts and Figures 

1.1 Volume 

• Belgium: approximately 53 million tons/year 

-> Construction and demolition waste approximately 31% 

� - High volume 

� + Mostly not hazardous (only 2.5%) 

(source: FPS Economy) 

- Flanders: 12 million tons/year 

(about the same as two Pyramids of Gizeh) 

- Including all waste from the construction, renovation and 

demolition of buildings, structures and roads 

Construction and demolition waste – composition (%) 

stony = 95 % 

not stony = 5 % 

concrete rubble = 41% 

brick rubble = 40% 

asphalt scree = 12% 

roof tiles = 3% 

wood = 2% 

rest = 2% 

Construction and demolition waste – composition & origin (%) 

C & D Waste – Origin 

Building waste = 80 % 

Road waste = 20 % 

C & D Waste – Origin (specifi c) 

demoliton buildings = 47% 

renovation = 24% 

break up roads 

waste new housing 

= 15% 

development = 8% 

waste building roads = 3% 

production waste = 3% 

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1.2 Reuse and recycling 

� 1995 

� Implementation Programme for Construction and Demolition 

Waste 

� 2000 

� Two targets 

1) Reusing at least 75% of construction and demolition waste 

(recycling) 

2) Disposal (useful and environmentally clean) of at most 25 % 

construction and demolition waste (in legal landfi ll 

or by incineration) 

� 2000 

� > 85% construction and demolition waste recycled (targets 

largely achieved) 

� 2009 onward 

� > 95% construction and demolition waste recycled (source: 

FPRG) 

� Top performer in the EU 

2. Increased Recycling (Flanders) due to: 

2.1 Charges and fees for dumping 

� Dumping is becoming more diffi cult (increasing restrictions on 

waste, higher charges and fees, etc.) 

2.2 More crushers 

Province Static crushers Mobile crushers 

West Flanders 44 11 

East Flanders 27 11 

Antwerp 28 3 

Flemish Brabant 14 3 

Limburg 36 14 

Total 149 42 

Total rushers registered with COPRO (source: COPRO) 

2.3 Standard government tender specifi cations 

� Emphasis originally on surface minerals 

� Since 1996 (Standard Tender Specifi cations 250) recycled materials 

are also allowed 

2.4 Legislation 

� EU level 

� Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of 

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the Council of 19/11/2008 on waste and repealing certain 

Directives 

� Belgian (regional) level 

- Flanders 

� Decree 02/07/1981 regarding waste management 

and prevention 

� Flemish government decision of 17/12/1997 con- 

cerning waste prevention and management (Vlarea) 

� Decree of 28/06/1985 concerning environmental 

licences 

� Flemish government decisions of 06/02/1991 (Vla- 

rem I) and 01/06/1995 (Vlarem II) 

Copro and Certipro 

� Both are impartial monitoring bodies for construction materials 

� The external certifi cation and quality assurance system is operated 

by semi-public non-profi t organisations 

� Stipulate that the amount of non-stone material is at most 1 % 

and the amount of organic material is at most 0.5 % (visual 

inspection; included in certifi cation) 

� The certifi cation system requires a calibrated weighbridge (or 

weighing system); periodic analysis of technical (construction) 

and environmental aspects, clear-cut procedures (with clear responsibilities 

for acceptance, treatment and removal of 

granulates), and maintaining a register of incoming waste 

streams, outgoing recycled materials and waste not recycled 

� Producers of recycled aggregates must implement internal 

monitoring (analysis for every 20,000 tons of aggregate) 

� CE-marking 

3. New Developments 

3.1 Selective demolition 

� Buildings used entirely or in part for purposes other than residential 

(offi ces, factories, etc.) 

� Enclosed volume > 1,000 m³ 

� Demolition inventory of waste materials 

- Holder of the urban planning licence 

- Before assignment of the demolition or dismantling work 

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- By an appointed architect or expert 

This regulation became effective on May 1, 2009 

Demolition inventory of waste materials 

- Identifi es the building site and all waste materials expected to 

be produced 

- Per waste material: 

- Name 

- Corresponding code in Appendix 1.2.1.B 

- Expected amount in m³ and tons 

- Place in the building where the waste material is found 

- Form of the waste material 

- Demolition inventory template available from OVAM 

- Completed inventory handed to general foreman and safety 

coordinator before the work is assigned 

- An architect or an expert appointed by the principal monitors 

waste shipments, adjusts them where necessary, and keeps a 

copy of the transport documents 

- Copies of transport documents and acceptance slips relating 

to removed waste materials are handed to the holder of the 

urban planning licence before completion of the work 

- The holder of the urban planning licence fi les the documents 

for 5 years 

Demolition inventory of waste materials 

A reliable demolition inventory of waste materials contributes to: 

- Fair competition due to registration by assignees 

- Correct estimation of costs 

- Controllability of projects 

- Safer demolition work 

- Hindering illegal dumping of waste materials 

- Supply chain management for building and demolition waste 

in the construction sector 

3.2 Supply chain management system 

Environmental quality management system for recycled granulates 

3.3 Focus on fl ows that are diffi cult to recycle 

Using the example of Gypsum, Carpet tiles, Flat-drawn sheet glass, 

Cellular concrete, Asphalt roofi ng 

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3.4 From Waste to Material Management 

� Starting at the design stage for new products, taking into 

account that products may become waste (or making it impos- 

sible for them to become waste) 

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Manfred Fuchs 

European Commission DG 

Environment, Brussels 

European setting for the recycling of 

building materials 

Policies and regulations 

� Policies/policy instruments 

- Integrated Product Policy (IPP) 

- Green Public Procurement (GPP) 

- Eco-labels 

- Standardisation 

� Regulations 

- Waste Directive 

- Construction Products Directive/Regulation 

Targets 

� Reducing waste 

� Performance of buildings/civil engineering works 

Input vs. output 

� Product performance: stability, energy savings/losses? (fi re) 

safety, etc. 

� Reference to materials: primary and/or secondary materials 

� Both require product declarations, however, «perfor 

mance» is mostly based on regulatory requirements while 

information on materials is mostly based on voluntary 

declarations 

Framework 

EU and MS responsibilities – the principle of subsidiarity 

� National level: 

- National or regional building codes, 

- safety levels (i.e. fi re classes, AgBB), 

� EU level: 

- Harmonisation of information (i.e. EPBD, CPD/CPR, GPSD, 

REACH) 

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Information for downstream users - technical harmonisation 

Standardisation work under the CPD/CPR 

� Technical standards to defi ne, measure and declare product 

performance 

� Performance criteria based on national regulatory require- 

ments (generally defi ned as Essential Requirements (ER – CPD) 

or Basic Work Requirements (BWR – CPR) 

CPD/CPR 

The Construction Products Directive (CPD)/Construction Products 

Regulation (CPR) and CE marking 

� CPD/CPR as “market tool” to remove “barriers to trade” 

� CE marking as “information tool” to provide a harmonised 

information format 

- CPD/CPR is NOT defi ning health or environmental risks or 

environmental “savings” 

- CPD/CPR is NOT setting threshold values 

� different national values – one test method 

Technical harmonisation 

Standardisation work under the CPD/CPR (cont.) 

� Essential Requirement nr. 3/Basic Work Requirement nr. 3: 

Hygiene, health and the environment: release of dangerous 

substances into (indoor) air, soil and (ground)water 

� Basic Work Requirement no 7: Sustainable use of natural 

resources 

The performance-based standardisation approach for ER/BWR 3 

� Release/content 

- Release (exposure) scenario whenever possible; 

- Content as alternative for simpler and less expensive 

solutions 

� Release scenario 

- Soil and (ground)water 

- Indoor air 

� Including secondary materials – same performance or additio- 

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nal testing necessary? 

� Information on secondary materials is essential 

Standardisation linked to BWR 7 

So far, no national regulatory requirements for BWR 7 exist 

� Standardisation work in CEN/TC 350 

� Environmental Product Declarations (based on ISO 14000 

family) 

� Life-Cycle-Thinking 

� Move forward to sustainability? 

Way forward 

� Focus on policies 

- « softer » but easier to implement (faster ones can move 

ahead, slower ones are not left out) 

- Awareness raising 

- Easier to include/amend/change assessment tools 

� Focus on regulations 

- « stronger » on obligatory measures but more challenging 

to implement (all 27 Member States have to comply) 

- Includes recycling in list of « traditional » requirements 

Do not forget the national level! 

Credibility and usefulness of the instruments provided 

� References to existing buildings/civil engineering works! 

� Harmonised (technical) information to (downstream) users 

(comparable, level playing fi eld in Internal Market) 

� Clear and transparent information from manufacturers to 

end-users 

� However, do not demand more information for products than 

useful for downstream users (« information overkill ») 

� Harmonised position of different product/material sectors 

(competition vs. « information overkill ») 

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Gunther Wolff 

European Commission DG 

Environment, Brussels 

EU targets - 

Waste avoidance and recycling 

European waste policies - key messages: 

- Minimise the negative environmental impacts 

- Waste prevention 

- From cradle to cradle 

- Waste as a valuable resource 

- Waste hierarchy 

Waste Framework Directive (WFD) 

- WFD entered into force on 12 December 2008 

- Deadline for transposition by MS: 12 December 2010 

- New environmental objective: 

� incorporates life cycle thinking in waste policies in and 

enhances their cost-effectiveness 

- Recycling target for Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) 

in Art 11(2) WFD : 

� preparation for re-use, recycling and backfi lling of 70% of 

construction & demolition waste 

- Calculation methods to be adopted in Comitology 

- Review of the targets in 2014 (study in 2012-2013) 

- End of waste criteria for selected waste streams 

Waste Prevention: 

Framework to be further developed 

- Measures to be adopted by the European Commission: 

� Establishment of a system for sharing information on best 

practice regarding waste prevention 

� Development of prevention guidelines for Member States 

� Development of waste prevention indicators 

- 2011: Commission report on the evolution of waste generation 

and waste prevention 

- 2014: Commission to propose waste prevention and decoupling 

objectives by 2020, if appropriate 

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Study on Construction and Demolition Waste in the EU 

Production of CDW: 

- Approx. 300-700 million tonnes/yr generated in the EU 

- Minerals are the largest fraction 

- Lack of reliable statistics (diverging defi nitions) 

Recycling: 

- Approx. 50% of CDW are recycled in the EU 

- Signifi cant differences in recycling rates in the EU: 

� D, B, NL, DK > 80% 

� E, P, GR < 20% 

- Different enforcement standards 

Conclusions from CDW study 

- CDW has a signifi cant potential for reycling and recovery 

- Separate collection is crucial for recycling 

- Adequate policies can clearly lead to high recycling and recovery 

rates 

- Incentives to divert CDW from landfi lls often needed (e.g. 

landfi ll tax/ban deposit for CDW in order to ensure legal 

collection and disposal) 

- Recycling is still in most cases downcycling 

- Geographical factors important 

- Governance is an issue: different enforcement standards 

- WFD: One-size-fi ts all model will not help frontrunners 

- Recycling rates highly dependent on materials (and local 

markets) 

Comments from the Recycling Industry 

- Implementation of waste hierarchy needed 

- Discourage landfi lling 

- Issue of backfi lling 

- End-of-waste status pending 

- Concern about recyclates falling under REACH (ECHA) 

- CEN Standards may discriminate against recyclates 

- Raise awareness about recycling 

- Improve image of recycling 

- Quality labels for recyclates 

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Frank Dupré 

Vice President Zentralverband 

Deutsches Baugewerbe, 

Berlin 

Recycling - Future or present? 


Before speaking about recycling – of course in the fi eld of building 

and in Germany – permit me to, fi rst of all, point to the necessity of 

treating our ecological and material resources with care. 

In connection with resource conservation, on the one hand, ecological 

issues, namely the protection of our livelihood, have to be 

considered. Yet, on the other hand, also economic aspects require a 

responsible handling of the resources. 

Main cause of the global ecological problems 

Obviously, the biggest global ecological problem is climate protection 

as according to unanimous statements made by the leading 

climate researchers a drastic climate change is threatening. Unlike 

earlier changes of the world climate the climate change threatening 

is, for the fi rst time, due to anthropogenic infl uences, namely 

the combustion of fossil energy carriers and the emission of carbon 

dioxide connected with it into atmosphere. However, the climate 

change is only one facet of the ecological problems now obviously 

cumulating. On rational examination the undesired ecological 

trend results from a main cause, namely the disproportionately 

high consumption of our natural resources. The global consumption 

of resources depends on two factors: the density of population 

on our planet and the per capita consumption of resources threatening 

in combination the ecosystems of earth. 

Let us, fi rst of all, look at the density and the growth of population 

[1]. 

As it is known in nature growth processes run without restraint in 

an exponential way. Though since the origins of mankind the total 

population has grown more or less continuously over thousands 

of years, yet at moderate growth rates. Only with the Age of Enlightenment, 

with fl ourishing of natural sciences and the industrial 

revolution resulting from it an explosion of the population unrestrained 

till the present day has set in. Whereas the world population 

amounted to approx. 500 million people at the beginning of 

the 18th century it had already more than tripled to approx. 1.8 

billion people at the end of the 19th century. In the 20th century 

the world population has grown further in an exponential way to 

approx. 6.2 billion people at the end of the century. 

According to the latest prediction of UNO of this month mankind 

will total 7 billion people already at the end of this year. The existential 

problems connected with the growing density of population 

in the less developed world regions are known. The decline of 

population considered as a demographic problem in Europe does 

practically not affect the global situation. 

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Nevertheless the consumption of resources in the highly industrialized 

states in spite of their comparatively low total population 

contributes essentially to the global ecological problems as climate 

change. 

Consumption of resources and ecological foot-print 

Before discussing the consumption of resources we have to defi ne 

the terms. 

By the term resource we understand, on the one hand, the ecological 

resources in the sense of ecosystems and biodiversity and, on 

the other hand, the raw material and energy sources of our planet. 

It is understandable that with the growth of the world population 

the consumption of resources has gone up. However, the central 

problem is the disproportionately high per capita consumption of 

resources in highly mechanized regions of our world as so far every 

economic growth has been accompanied by an increase in the 

consumption of resources. As described at the beginning a dramatic 

climate change is threatening due to the constantly increasing 

consumption of fossil energy carriers which, however, is only one of 

the multitude of ecological problems connected with the increased 

consumption of resources. 

Already in 1972 the Club of Rome [2] due to the dramatically 

increasing ecological problems and the resources running short 

with the world population growing further rapidly pointed to the 

limits of growth. It requires a radical rethinking in the industrialized 

countries and the change to a sustainable way of living and 

management marked by a qualitative growth without a constantly 

increasing use of resources. 

The WWF in its “Living Planet Report 2008” [3] underlines the threatening 

exhaustion of the “natural capital” of earth. Here, the socalled 

“ecological foot-print” is defi ned as criterion for a sustainable 

way of living and management which relates the consumption of 

natural resources with biocapacity of earth. The last-mentioned 

shows how much area is available to man globally and locally. 

Compared with the biocapacity of earth mankind made use of 

“half” of the planet for itself in 1960 whereas it would require 

already 1.3 planets for the present use of natural resources. That 

means that we, for the time being, use or exploit our planet excessively 

in ecological respect and, in particular, related to the use of 

resources. 

Disproportionately high consumption of resources of the industrial 

countries 

In connection with the consumption of raw materials in the industrialized 

countries the term “resource” has to be extended in a way 

as to include the use of energy required for extracting raw materials 

and the consumption of ecological resources e.g. in the form of 

consumption of landscape. In the glossary on the “term of resour- 

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ces” [4] prepared by the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment 

and Energy it is explained that the consumption of primary 

material by the German population amounted to approx. 52 tons 

of the economic and consumer goods used per capita in 2004 in 

Germany and to altogether approx. 4.3 billion tons. By primary material 

all abiotic raw materials and the imported abiotic materials 

are understood. This includes, as a matter of course, the extracted 

minerals, metals etc., yet also the erosion and excavation connected 

with the extraction of materials, all packaging materials and the 

consumption of fossil energy carriers. The whole consumption of 

primary materials considering also the imported goods totalled in 

Germany even approx. 74 tons (!) per capita in 2004 with the total 

consumption having been 5.6 billion tons. The minerals and metals 

with approx. 0.7 billion tons (13 %) and approx. 1 billion tons (18 %) 

contribute to nearly one third (31 %) of the consumption of primary 

materials. When calculating the ecological foot-print the German 

average citizen requires already two and a half times of the area 

available to him according to calculations. 

Threatening exhaustion of resources 

Owing to this enormous use of resources you may already suspect 

that in some fi elds a shortage of raw materials has to be the result. 

In contrast to the fossil fuels the earth crust has nearly inexhaustible 

deposits of a multitude of metals and mineral raw materials, yet 

a shortage of these raw material resources may also occur. On the 

one hand, we have to distinguish between technologically extractable 

reserves and resources, yet, on the other hand, the consideration 

for ecological resources and landscape protection are limiting 

factors. Licensing of extraction projects will become increasingly 

more diffi cult in the European Union before the background of the 

“Natura-2000 Guideline” adopted by the European Commission as 

connected, undisturbed landscape areas have to be protected in 

order to preserve the biodiversity. 

To avoid a shortage of raw materials or a disproportionately high 

consumption of landscape by extracting raw materials a consequent 

change from a raw material intensive management and way 

of life to recycling will be required for the purposes of sustainability. 

Thus, a largely waste-free economy shall be striven for which will 

be marked by a large recycling of raw materials at the end of the 

life cycle of the products. That is why recycling is a social task and 

requirement! 

The importance of recycling of building materials 

Mineral wastes are by far the quantitatively most important waste 

sector in Germany. According to the Federal Offi ce of Statistics 

[5] approx. 240 million tons of mineral wastes including industrial 

by-products are produced in the Federal Republic of Germany a year 

which correspond to approx. 71 % of the total waste of approx. 340 

million tons (as per 2006) produced in Germany. Suffi cient dumping 

areas are not available in Germany for this huge quantity of waste. 

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Thus this requires also recycling. 

Construction industry devoted itself already early to the principle 

of recycling. In 1984 the Bundesgütegemeinschaft Recycling- 

Baustoffe e.V. (Federal Quality Association for Recycling of Building 

Materials) was established by circles of the ZDB. 

The member companies of the Bundesgütegemeinschaft Recycling- 

Baustoffe have made a high-quality processing of mineral building 

wastes – from building rubbish up to polluted soils - their business. 

Due to their guaranteed environmental and product properties 

recycled building materials have been an equal alternative to 

extracting new mineral building materials for 25 years now. Owing 

to this positive development in recycling of mineral construction 

wastes construction industry as the fi rst branch has undertaken to 

reach a recycling rate for mineral construction waste, i.e. for building 

rubbish and soils – of at least 70 % in 1996. 

Since that time building industry overfulfi lled this self-commitment. 

Thus, the 6th monitoring report by the recycling carrier 

construction which remained unpublished mentions a recycling 

rate of 73.4 % of the produced 57.1 million tons of mineral building 

rubbish for 2006. Owing to the high utilization rate of building 

rubbish it was possible to utilize altogether approx. 90 % of the 

mineral wastes produced in Germany. The high recycling rate in the 

fi eld of mineral wastes contributes essentially to the comparatively 

good overall recycling rate of approx. two thirds of the waste quantity 

produced in Germany. 

Also for reasons of landscape protection the consequent recycling 

of mineral wastes is an absolute necessity. According to data 

presented by the Federal Offi ce of Statistics by a 90 % recycling of 

mineral wastes it was possible to halve the quantity of dumped 

wastes of 75.3 million tons to 38.7 million tons and to reduce the 

number of dumps in the same period from 2,341 to 1,706. At the 

same time, it was possible to distinctly reduce the consumption of 

landscape connected with the extraction of natural building materials 

by using high-quality recycled building materials. 

Before the background of a necessary ecological and sustainable 

restoration of cities recycling of building materials will gain still 

more importance. A big part of the apartments built in the fi rst decades 

after the war does neither meet the present requirements for 

comfortable living nor do these old stocks correspond to the present 

energetic standards. In many cases modernizing is not possible 

due to the bad city planning as well as constructional quality and 

the unfavourable ground plans of the existing apartments so that 

they have to be increasingly substituted for the purpose of sustainability. 

There may not be an alternative to the last-mentioned as 

building of new houses has been now practically stopped and thus 

the obsoleteness of existing houses has rapidly increased if the 

consumption of landscape and areas shall be reduced. This means 

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a remarkable increase of the production of building rubbish in the 

years to come. For the purpose of avoiding waste we have to consider 

the stock of buildings and other constructional infrastructure 

as raw material reserves which in the case of restoration have to be 

recycled into possibly high-quality alternative building materials. 

Apart from the so far quantitatively predominant use of recycled 

building materials as fi lling and sub-base material in road construction 

and civil engineering the high-quality use of recycled mineral 

material will gain importance. An example is processing of mineral 

wastes into liquid soils which are self-compacting and ensure a 

void-free and settlement-free backfi lling e.g. of utility trenches. In 

addition, in several research projects, for the time being, investigations 

relating to a high-quality use of mineral building rubbish for 

the production of building materials and products are carried out. 

For instance processing of demolition concrete materials into highquality 

concrete aggregates e.g. for water impermeable concrete is 

tested. A further research project deals with using mineral wastes 

as starting product for the production of swelling granulate which 

might serve as aggregate for light concrete stones or as plant 

substrate carrier. These examples illustrate that recycled building 

materials show in addition to their present share in avoiding waste, 

protecting resources and reducing the consumption of landscape 

excellent perspectives as supplier for the building product industry. 

So far about the success achieved for the recycling branch. Yet, how 

are its prospects? 

Endangering the recycling rates so far reached 

Unfortunately there is the danger that the success notably reached 

in recycling of building materials will be ruined by unbalanced 

legislative and regulation procedures. With the skeleton ordinance 

draft regulating the protection of groundwater and soils and 

utilizing of recycled building materials presented by the Federal 

Ministry for the Environment a drastic aggravation of the framework 

conditions for recycling of building materials is threatening in 

Germany. 

The criticism of the economy is directed against the eluate limits 

appearing to be arbitrary and the fact that by far more parameters 

have to be investigated than prescribed by the EU Drinking Water 

Directive. The contradictions include that the envisaged limits 

are in many regions of Germany already exceeded in the existing 

soils owing to geogenic or anthropogenic preliminary pollution. In 

addition many limits are below those of the Drinking Water Directive. 

According to this logic drinking water was to be classifi ed as 

environmentally hazardous and might not be used e.g. as sprinkling 

water. The alternative building material ordinance draft based 

on these limits would in many points complicate if not even prevent 

the reuse of soils and the use of recycled building materials. 

The trade associations concerned have unanimously criticized the 

unbalanced draft. 

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We hope that due to the broad criticism by the economy the 

Ministry for the Environment will once more correct the skeleton 

ordinance. The protection of soils and groundwater have, of course, 

high priority. However, environmental protection should be applied 

comprehensively according to the principles of sustainability. 

The protection of resources, the reduction of the consumption of 

landscape and the avoidance of additional waste dumps have to be 

considered when putting the protection targets in concrete terms. 

That is why for the purpose of a comprehensive environmental 

protection and also high recycling rates in future a balanced environmental 

legislation should be demanded which will keep the 

balance between the individual production targets. The protection 

of resources and landscape shall not be endangered by completely 

exaggerated requirements to recycling of building materials. 

To sum it up there may be stated that it was possible to largely implement 

recycling in building industry. The targets of the EC Waste 

Framework Directive are already exceeded by an actual recycling 

rate of more than 90 % for mineral wastes. German building industry 

and the building material recycling branch pay an outstanding 

contribution to recycling to which there is no alternative in view of 

the shortage of resources. 

The Federal Republic of Germany ranges among the leading nations 

in the fi eld of avoiding and processing wastes, fulfi lling 

notably in this fi eld an exemplary function. It must not be that the 

success of German recycling will be destroyed by an unbalanced 

environmental legislation and other counterproductive regulations. 

As far as balanced environment-political framework conditions will 

exist the German building industry and the recycling branch will 

set standards also in future in the domains of resource conservation 

and recycling. 

Thank you for your attention. 

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[1] Birg, Herwig, „Die Weltbevölkerung: Dynamik und Gefahren“, 

C.H. Beck-Verlag, 2. Aufl age, München 2004 

[2] Meadows, Dennis u. a., „Die Grenzen des Wachstums – Bericht 

des Club of Rome zur Lage der Menschheit“, Deutsche Verlags- 

Anstalt, München 1972 

[3] WWF Deutschland, „Living Planet Report 2008“, Eigenverlag, 

Frankfurt a. M. 2008 

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[4] Schütz, Helmut und Stefan Bringezu (Wuppertal Institut für 

Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH im Auftrag des Umweltbundes- 

amtes), „Ressourcenverbrauch von Deutschland – aktuelle 

Kennzahlen und Begriffsbestimmungen“, 

http://www.umweltbundesamt.de, Februar 2008 

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gefährlicher Abfälle)“, http://www.destatis.de, 2008 

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President The Cyprus 

Recycling Association 

(CRA),Limmasol 

Establishing building materials recycling 

- Cyprus example 

Four years ago, we began in Cyprus, to think about creating an 

innovative and integrated system for solid waste management, for 

the construction industry, which could be supported by companies 

already operating in the recovery and recycling sector of other waste 

streams - materials. 

Today we are proud to be the fi rst country in Europe, which has 

adopted regulations that create a harmonized framework with the 

concept of „extended producer responsibility“ in the construction 

industry. 

Why we consider this fact so important? 

Many people believe that the fi nancial crisis that affl icts Europe is 

mainly due to the attractively cheap workforce of Asia, the excessive 

depletion of natural resources, the uncontrolled export of 

manpower and the unconditional spreading of free technological 

knowledge. 

On the other hand, the insuffi cient control on the environment’ s 

quality, safety, and protection, the cultural value of the products, 

and our attitude towards the aforementioned multicultural postmodern 

society place Europe in an increasingly diffi cult position 

against the new emerging USA and Asia super- powers. 

The best example to this fact, is the use of the CE Marking, which is 

still not applied for all categories of building materials, what more 

for the recycled ones, but instead often becomes in most cases, the 

excuse for the sins of many producers and plays the role of the Trojan 

horse for the strengthening of the Chinese economy. The term 

China Export is well known. 

Someone can tell that all the above have nothing to do with our 

subject which is recycling and its implementation in Cyprus. On the 

contrary! 

In Cyprus, if we succeed in implementing the recently passed regulations 

from the House of Representatives, during the next decade, 

we will adopt the extended producer responsibility and we shall 

create the framework for effective consolidation of the construction 

industry. We will offer better quality, enhanced security, better 

- cleaner environment, proximity, jobs and we shall increase the 

complexity of our constructions. In other words, we will improve 

the economy of the construction industry. 

In Cyprus, there is still no licensed stationary recycling plant for and 

recycling and treatment of –building and construction waste, but 

there are over 35 licensed mobile units. There is also a modern unit, 

built by a well known company, which allows simultaneous co- 

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production and recycling of hot asphalt. Surely, the main issue still 

remains to be the legal billing of works. 

Although many companies recycle excavation and demolition waste 

almost at the same level as of central Europe, most of them do 

not bill for these works and the recycled materials are “baptized” as 

raw materials! 

As a typical example, the Public Works Department did not allow 

projects which included secondary material prior to the integration 

and the publication of CYS EN 12620 «Aggregate Concrete» CYS EN 

13043 «asphalt and aggregate surface roads, airfi elds and other 

traffi cked areas», CYS EN 13139 «Inert Mortar», CYS EN 13242 « 

Aggregates for unbound and hydraulically bound or not for use in 

civil engineering and road construction”. Despite the fact that all 

interested parties were well aware of the origin of the products, 

which were offered under CE Cyprus Evaluation. 

It seems that the most diffi cult part in establishing recycling as a 

legal industrial activity is that of pricing and certifi cation of recycled 

products. 

It is necessary to fi nd new and smart legal instruments at European 

level and create better conditions for marketing of secondary 

construction products - recycled materials by adopting a more 

conscious attitude towards crisis. 

Surely, the adoption of Green Public procurement will help, as also 

will the new legislations framework in 2020, in order to create a 

more favorable environment for recyclables. Nevertheless, as far as 

our debt towards the environment is concerned, we must keep in 

mind that we should evaluate in a different way the contribution 

of the recycling sector of the construction industry towards the 

restitution of the huge volumes of materials, whose production 

process causes high emissions (e.g. cement). It goes without saying 

that we should reconsider at a scientifi c level the impact of relative 

CO2 emissions as well as the benefi cial contribution of Inert Waste 

Recycling. 

The passed Legislation refers to the adaptation of individual and 

collective management systems for construction and demolition 

waste, so that all contractors are binded by the “producer’s responsibility”. 

Participating in the systems not only demands payment of 

the relevant fees but also requires a deposit bond according to the 

company’s works scale. 

In Cyprus, the next step is to try to implement the legal framework 

and develop recycling processes and especially implement the use 

of secondary materials into new applications. Recycling is not any 

more the stooge of the construction economy but the main protagonist 

in the development of construction’s sector, in Cyprus and all 

over Europe. 

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Waste Sector Director WSP 

UK 

Building materials recycling in Great Britain 

The presentation outlined the UK’s challenges, strategy and subsequent 

progress in reducing, reusing and recycling waste in the 

construction sector. It referenced the UK’s Waste and Resource 

Action Programme’s (WRAP) approach to assisting the construction 

sector achieve the reduction targets set and presented a case study 

around the largest NHS hospital development programme (£750m) 

ever to have taken place. 

Signatory Report 2011 (the additional detail below has been 

extracted from WRAP’s Signatory report available from their 

website) 

WRAP are involved with a number of voluntary agreements with 

various industry sectors. They stimulate businesses to come up 

with their own ways to solve problems, give them far greater 

fl exibility and allow them to meet their own corporate needs. 

The Halving Waste to Landfi ll Commitment is a great example. 

Over 600 organisations have now signed up - in a little over two 

years since its launch this is a fantastic achievement. The Commitment 

is now fi rmly embedded within the industry and is growing 

organically as champions for waste reduction push good practice 

requirements throughout the construction supply chain. 

Halving waste sent to landfi ll by 2012 is a target for the whole 

industry. Some companies can and will exceed this benchmark. 

However, they can only measure and improve performance with 

the support of the whole construction supply chain. The fact that 

signatories are representative of the entire industry – clients, 

designers, main contractors, sub-contractors, manufacturers and 

suppliers, waste management contractors and sector bodies – is a 

testament to this collaborative approach. 

This report provides a snapshot of the progress being made by 

signatories to the Commitment, and specifi cally those who have 

submitted data to WRAP’s Waste to Landfi ll Reporting Portal. Those 

currently reporting represent the leaders in the industry and 

account for an annual construction spend of a staggering £24bn. 

Their reporting data show an absolute decrease in waste sent to 

landfi ll, and more importantly, that they are wasting less in the 

fi rst place. The actions of these signatories should be applauded 

and I hope they will act as a beacon for the rest of the construction 

industry and the wider UK business sector. 

Drivers for change 

The construction industry is responsible for over 100 million tonnes 

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of construction, demolition and excavation (CD&E) waste every 

year – around one third of all waste in the UK. In England alone 

almost 13 million tonnes of this waste ends up in landfi ll without 

any form of recovery or reuse. 

Recognising the environmental and economic impacts of these 

levels of wastage, the joint Government-industry Strategy for 

Sustainable Construction established a target (in England) of a 50% 

reduction in construction, demolition and excavation waste to 

landfi ll by 2012. The target of halving waste to landfi ll by 2012 also 

supports the Scottish Government’s Zero Waste Plan and construction 

waste reduction policies in Wales and Northern Ireland. 

The Halving Waste to Landfi ll Commitment was designed by WRAP 

to provide a supportive framework to encourage the construction 

industry to work together to reduce waste and deliver the target. 

The Commitment’s clear supply chain approach to measurement 

and common metrics helps signatories to achieve year on year 

improvement and generate signifi cant cost savings. 

Turning words into action: a thriving commitment 

The Halving Waste to Landfi ll Commitment was launched in October 

2008. Signatories to the Commitment need to take a number of 

steps to translate their statement of intent into action. By engaging 

key players in their own organisation and supply chain, signatories 

defi ne a target for waste reduction, set a baseline to measure 

against and embed the target within corporate policy. 

WRAP provides tools and good practice guidance to support implementation 

of the key actions required by the Commitment and 

help turn a corporate target into a real outcome. 

• Clients and contractors use WRAP’s model procurement wording 

within contractual documents to ensure waste reduction 

is a priority from the beginning of the project. 

• Designers use WRAP’s Designing out Waste process and online 

tools to identify and quantify waste reduction opportunities. 

• Waste management contractors use WRAP’s Site Specifi c 

Waste Analysis Tool to provide robust waste recovery data to 

their clients. 

• All stakeholders in a project input into WRAP’s Site Waste 

Management Plan Template to track waste created and recovered. 

Signatories are encouraged to register their baseline and targets 

within WRAP’s Waste to Landfi ll Reporting Portal. The Portal integrates 

with WRAP’s other tools to collect waste data from projects 

and allows signatories to monitor their corporate progress. The 

data from the Waste to Landfi ll Reporting Portal forms the basis of 

this report. 

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Infl uence through good practice procurement 

One of the Commitment actions critical to the implementation of 

good practice waste reduction and recovery is setting corresponding 

project procurement requirements. WRAP provides guidance 

for the procurement process to help construction clients and 

contractors achieve good practice. WRAP’s model procurement 

wording covers waste reduction, waste recovery and the greater 

use of recovered materials at all stages of a project – policy, preparation 

and design, pre-construction, construction, use and postcompletion. 

By supporting signatories to embed good practice waste to landfi ll 

requirements within their contractual documents WRAP has 

infl uenced projects with a construction value of £38 billion. 

Setting a baseline: combined fi gures for 2008 and 2009 

Over 280 signatories are now registered with the WRAP Waste to 

Landfi ll Reporting Portal. The 67 contractors that have set a reporting 

baseline (in either 2008 or 2009) have a combined total 

annual spend of approximately £24bn. This represents a quarter of 

the UK construction market, and includes 32 of Construction News 

magazine’s 2010 top 50 contractors. 

Contractors setting baseline performance for waste have reported 

that their activities across the UK have resulted in 16.9 million 

tonnes of CD&E waste2. Of this, 73% of arisings are recovered with 

only 4.6 million tonnes of waste being sent to landfi ll. 

Signatories reporting data: 2008 to 2009 

Figures from the Waste to Landfi ll Reporting Portal show that from 

2008 to 2009 there was an absolute decrease in waste to landfi ll. 

The 32 companies reporting so far for this period spent an average 

total in excess of £21bn annually on construction projects. 

For 2008 the reporting data shows that signatories generated over 

eleven million tonnes of waste. Of this just over three million 

tonnes, was sent to landfi ll. 

For 2009 the total waste arisings decreased slightly in absolute 

terms but waste sent to landfi ll was cut by 28% – approximately 

900,000 tonnes. 

When construction spend is taken into account the amount of 

waste sent to landfi ll per £ million decreases by 44% – from 178 

tonnes/£ million in 2008 to 100 tonnes/£ million in 2009. 

Designing out Waste process 

Implementing Designing out Waste in construction projects 

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The best opportunities for improving materials resource effi ciency 

in construction projects occur during the design stage. Implementing 

these opportunities can provide signifi cant cost savings, 

reductions in waste produced and disposed to landfi ll, and carbon 

reductions. 

‘Designing out Waste’ is a key element of good practice in the 

preparation of a Site Waste Management Plan (SWMP). This highlights 

that designers have an important role in reducing waste – it 

is not just a site action for construction contractors. 

WRAP provide a guidance note outlining the three-step process for 

implementing Designing out Waste in construction projects. It can 

be easily applied to all types of project, whether relating to buildings 

or civil engineering, demolition, new-build or refurbishment. 

The process enables Designing out Waste to be implemented in a 

structured way on a project, ensuring that: 

• design opportunities are not missed; 

• design decisions can be made objectively based on quantifi ed 

benefi ts; and 

• the design solutions are embedded into the project and can be 

communicated effectively to the project team. 

The methods used within each step of the process should be 

chosen to suit the size and nature of the project. This guidance 

note suggests some options. 

Designing out Waste should be integral to the project approach. 

The process should be started (Step 1 Identify) at the Outline 

Design stage, with Step 2 Investigate and Step 3 Implement continuing 

through Detailed Design to the Pre-Construction stage. 

Full guidance on implementation through project stages in building 

and civil engineering projects is given in the Designing out 

Waste guides. 

The Five Principles for Designing Out Waste 

1. Reuse and Recovery 

Design identifi es opportunities for re-use of materials and components 

� Reuse of excavation spoil in groundwork and landscaping 

� Brick reclamation 

� On/offsite crushing of inert rubble materials as aggregate 

replacement 

� Architectural salvage 

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� Quality Protocols for recycling eg of plasterboard 

� Reuse of timber for chipboard 

2. Off-Site Construction 

Off-site manufacture or construction for on-site assembly or 

installation 

� Modular pre-fabricated pods 

� Precast stairs and escalator units 

� Reinforced concrete - pre-casting v. in-situ casting 

� Eliminating the need for on-site fi nishes [i.e. reducing the need 

for painting] 

� Offsite plasterboard preparation 

3. Materials Optimisation 

Design for effi cient use of construction materials. 

� Standard dimensions for fl oor to ceiling heights and room 

dimensions 

� Lightweighting of components 

4. Waste Effi cient Procurement 

Minimisation of materials through procurement mechanisms and 

effi cient delivery system 

� Use of clauses to specify recycled content or material reuse 

� Just in time deliveries 

� Careful sequencing of events to avoid rework requirement 

� Rail delivery of materials 

5. Deconstruction & Flexibility 

Design for end of life or change of use 

� Mono-material construction and avoidance of laminate or 

complex materials 

� Re-use of temporary site infrastructure 

� Substructure and fi t out design to enable change of use 

One Example : National Health Service Project -Glasgow Hospitals 

Key services – Construction & Demolition: 

• Waste minimisation and reuse strategies 

• Site Waste Management Plans 

• Material Management Strategies 

• Permitting and Exemptions 

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Project: New South Glasgow Hospitals 

• Minimised construction and demolition waste by 8,000 tonnes 

• Innovative on-site waste sorting approach 

• Use of exemptions avoided the cost of a full site permit 

In summary 

• Waste prevention 

• Re-use 

• Recycle/compost 

• Energy recovery 

• Disposal 

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Anna Braune 

Senior Consultant PE International 

AG, Stuttgart 

Recyclable building materials - Constribution 

of the building materials industry 

to sustainability 

Sustainable building means to erect and operate structures economically, 

protecting environment and saving resources and to thus 

contribute to protecting human health and social and cultural 

values. Thus, sustainability in construction means to build in an 

ecologically, economically and socially compatible way and to allow 

a cross-generation justice. 

Ecological construction includes e.g. the consumption of resources. 

Here, it is interesting to know when using a conventional building 

more than half of the total primary energy is required and only one 

fourth is spent on the erection of the building whereas a zero 

energy house has an overall demand for energy up to 40 % lower 

than in the case of primary energy demand. On the other hand, 

environmental impacts caused by emissions or the consumption of 

raw materials and the recycleability of the building products are 

also taken into consideration. 

In economic respect attention it turned to the distribution of costs, 

with 80 % of them falling to the phase of use and 10 % to erection. 

Here, catchwords such as energy effi ciency and maintenance costs 

play a part. By calculating the life cycle costs the resulting costs 

may be made more transparent and the risks for the investor may 

be minimized. Also the fl exibility of using buildings gains in importance 

which is due to a society changing from an industrial society 

to a service society, growing cities and the demographic change. To 

cast a glance at the socio-cultural and functional aspects of sustainable 

building the fl exibility of the buildings, the multiple user 

requirements (e. g. freedom from barriers) and health, security and 

comfort of the users shall be taken into consideration. 

All these items are criteria of a sustainable assessment of the 

buildings which should be considered jointly. The life cycle assessment 

method lends itself to assess the ecological aspects by means 

of which it is possible to calculate the potential environmental 

impacts of a product, a building or a service in the course of its 

whole life cycle, i.e. from its erection via its use up to the end of its 

life. 

With global criteria such as the limited deposits of raw materials, 

the global availability of resources, the emissions into air, water 

and soil being taken into consideration the environmental impacts 

are classifi ed and characterized in the life cycle assessment to 

compare them then with reference standards, the so-called benchmarks. 

They are laid down by tools for assessment such as DGNB. 

The German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) sets its priorities 

of assessment on a high fl exibility of the buildings, low life-cycle 

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costs and not using hazardous substances. Unlike other tools for 

assessment DGNB considers the whole life cycle with the end of life 

and the recycleability of the building products. 

In England the BREEAM assessment method is used defi ning the 

criteria for sustainable building. Depending on the region worldwide 

various assessment methods have been established such as 

LEED in the USA and India or Greenstar setting the assessment 

criteria in Australia and South Africa. In the mean time the trend 

towards a sustainable building has become an important innovation 

engine of the construction and property branches. It is worth 

while learning from other industries such as e.g. the automobile 

industry. It is also important to improve the fl exibility of using 

buildings by demountable systems and to know the whole value 

added chain and the ecological effects of the building products on 

the structure to present reliable information on products to clients. 

Here, environmental building product declarations (Environmental 

Product Declaration EPD) present themselves. 

ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCT DECLARATION (EPD) 

For some years in Germany environmental building product declarations 

have been existing+. They follow the ISO 14025 standard. 

EPDs are suited to communicate the environmental performance 

of products and to provide product sustainability information, The 

Environmental Product Declaration is a uniform and internationally 

recognized class verifi ed by third persons. Architects and building 

planners who construct sustainable buildings request increasingly 

that such a proof should be furnished. EPDs give an insight into the 

impacts which such products have on environment. They contain 

indicators describing the contribution to the greenhouse effect, 

using resources, acidifi cation, death of forests, overfertilization, 

formation of smog and toxic impacts on men and the ecosystem. In 

addition, the whole life cycle is described in a transparent way. 

An EPD contains two central areas: The description of the product 

life cycle and the results of the life cycle assessment. The description 

of the life cycle contains all relevant information appearing 

during production, extraction of raw materials up to the production 

and use up to recycling and their later disposal. This describing 

part of an EPD contains 

• the exact composition of the product and information relating 

to the origin and availability of the fabricated materials used 

• technical properties of the product such as density, fi re classes, 

heat conductivity, 

• aspects of environmental and health protection in production, 

installation, use and the end of life, 

• data relating to transport, wastes and valuable products, 

• results of product-relevant measurements such as formaldehyde 

emissions, leaching behaviour, radioactivity. 

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The second part, the life cycle assessment, makes available the 

results of an ecological life cycle analysis in the form of selected 

environmental indicators. The preparation of a life cycle assessment 

study is regulated in the standard series ISO 14040 and ISO 

14044. This standard series is applicable to all studies independent 

of the product. For environmental building product declarations 

(EPD) the EN 15804 will enter into effect in the course of 2011 

prescribing exactly the method of calculation, the formation of 

scenarios for building, use, disposal and recycling processes and the 

indicators to be assessed so that in future the results of the life 

cycle assessment of building products may be published in a 

uniform way throughout Europe. An environmental profi le quantifi 

es the potential environmental impacts per declared unit (e.g. per 

cubic meter concrete). 

The life cycle assessment (LCA) method allows to quantify the 

environmental impacts of products, services or other systems from 

a life cycle perspective (from „cradle to grave“) as well as from 

various environmental perspectives. According to defi ned marginal 

conditions all processes required for producing a product, i.e. from 

the extraction of raw materials, via transport and processes stages, 

up to the factory gate for being supplied to the clients (“cradle to 

gate”), via the phase of use up to dismounting and disposal or 

potential recycling depending on their respective consumption of 

resources and emissions are analyzed, summed up in a model and 

itemized accordingly (“life cycle product model”). The sum of the 

resources required and the emissions, the so-called life cycle 

inventory, will be subsequently converted to indicators with the aid 

of scientifi c methods (“assessment of impacts”) considering the 

respective specifi c environmental impacts so that the following 

investigations and representations of the result will be possible: 

• determination of the contribution of materials to environment 

or process steps to environmental impacts 

• comparison of alternatives with each other under ecological 

aspects 

• identifi cation and control of indices for an ecological product 

design 

• declaration of environmental indices etc. 

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Member of CEN/TC 351, 

Brussels 

Current state of European standards for 

recycled building materials 

European standardization is carried out by CEN (“Comité Européen 

de Normalisation”) the European Committee for Standardization. 

The work is carried out in the individual TCs, the technical committees. 

The TCs most important for regulating the requirements for 

recycled building materials are: 

TC 154 – aggregates 

TC 227 – road materials 

TC 351 – dangerous substances 

TC 396 - earthworks 

The priority for preparing constructional requirements lies in the 

TC 154 – aggregates which is carried out in the SCs (subcommittees) 

and WG (work groups) dealing with aggregates for concrete, 

mortar, asphalt and unbound applications as well as track ballast 

or hydraulic-engineering stones and preparing the respective EN 

standards. 

The TC 227 road materials deals with the requirements for aggregates 

specifi ed in the EN 13285 aggregate mixtures. 

In TC 351 “building products – assessment of release of dangerous 

substances” WG 1 compiles the analytical test methods for determining 

the potential release of substances in building products 

dangerous for surface waters, groundwater and soil. 

Explicit regulations relating to recycled building materials have 

been existing since 2008 in the EN standards 

EN 13242 „Aggregates for unbound and hydraulically bound materials 

for use in civil engineering work and road construction“ and 

EN 12620 „Aggregates for concrete“. 

There “aggregates produced by processing inorganic materials used 

before as building materials” are described as recycled aggregates, 

their components are defi ned and the categories are fi xed on the 

basis of the composition of these components. 

These regulations contained in the above-mentioned EN standards 

had then to be implemented in national standards within a period 

of 18 months. 

In the next generation of EN standards which are at present subject 

to being examined and will be issued presumably in 2012 the 

structure is basically harmonized and the requirements are described. 

In addition, a list of types in accordance with their origin is included. 

The regulations relating to conformity criteria so far prescribed 

in the respective annexes are now regulated in a new European 

standard with regard to a fi rst test (typifying) and current factory 

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production checks. 

As regards the requirements relating to the ecological compatibility 

of “dangerous substances” it is furthermore referred to the national 

requirements. 

In cooperation of the TC 351 with the product standardization 

committees TC 154 and TC 227, fi rst of all, a direction as to the test 

methods to be applied was given referring to existing EN regulations 

relating to the “perculation test” and the “trough method”. 

Presumably in the next but one generation of the EN standards in 

2017 it is to be expected that unifi ed test methods and requirements 

relating to the ecological compatibility (dangerous substances) 

will be included in the product standards. 

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President European Quality 

Association for Recycling e. V.- 

EQAR, Berlin 

- Training as a clerical worker 

- Subsequently activity in the Sales department at Henschel AG, 

Kassel vehicle, plant construction, mechanical engineering) 

- 1965: Daimler Benz AG, Berlin (sale of ship’s engines) 

- Since 1966 work at Fa. Heinrich A. Beckers, Düsseldorf (trade in 

metals and steel scrap) 

- 1972: Founding of the C.C. as founder partner (disposal with 

the priorities metal, scrap and mineral waste) 

- 2008: Founding of Manfred Wierichs foundations with its seat 

in Würzburg (investment of the company capital of the CC 

group into the foundations) 

- Since 2008: Chairman of the foundation (Manfred Wierichs 

Environment foundation) 

Activity in associations: 

- Founder member and 1st chairman of the BRB Cologne 

- Fusion of the associations Bonn and Cologn to the Federal 

Association for Recycling of Building Materials, seated in Bonn 

2004 

- Transfer of the seat to Berlin and change of the name of the 

association 

- Board member since 2001 of the Bundesgütegemeinschaft 

Recycling Baustoffe e.V. (Federal Quality Association for Recyc- 

ling of Building Materials) 

- Since 2008 President of EQAR e.V. (European Quality Associati- 

on for Recycling e.V.) Berlin 

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Director General FIEC - 

Verband der Europäischen 

Bauwirtschaft, Brussels 

- „Rechtsanwalt“ (German barrister/ solicitor, since 1985), 

Wiesbaden Bar (Germany) 

- Director General of FIEC (since 1994) 

- joined FIEC 1989 as Director charged with setting up the Brussels 

offi ce 

- joined construction industry federations 1986 

- Deputy Director of EIC (European International Contractors) 

- Deputy Director of the international department of the German 

„Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie“ 

- Member of the „Advisory Committee for the Opening-up of Pub- 

lic Procurement“ of the European Commission (DG MARKT) 

- Delegate in the European Economic and Social Committee‘s 

„CCMI“ 

- Chairman of the Board of Trustees of „Build-IT Berlin“ the IT and 

Communication Trade Fair for the Construction Sector 

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President Österreichischer 

Baustoff-Recycling Verband, 

Vienna 

- Executive director of the company ÖKOTECHNA Entsorgungs- 

und Umwelttechnik GmbH 

- Environmental offi cer of ALPINE BAU GmbH 

- President of the Austrian Association for Recycling of Building 

Materials (ÖBRV) 

- Vice-President of EQAR 

STUDIES 

- TU Vienna; civil engineering 

- Environmental management (MAS) 

Professional career 

- Management of works in building construction and civil 

engineering 

- 1983 – 1989 railway construction project in Algeria – prepa- 

ration of construction 

- From 1990 on project manager of ÖKOTECHNA 

- Since 1999 executive director of ÖKOTECHNA 

40


Jo Leinen 

MEP, 

Chairman of Environment 

Committee 

Born on 06/04/1948 in Bisten/Saarland 

Education/Profession 

- born at the German-French border in Saarland on 06/04/1948 

- 1967 – 1972 study of law and economics in Saarbrücken 

and Bonn 

- 1972 – 1974 Study at the Europe college in Bruegge/ 

Belgium and at the Institute for World 

Affairs in Connecticut/USA 

- 1974 – 1976 Probationary Training Period at the Higher 

Regional Court in Koblenz 

- 1978 – 1984 Lawyer in Freiburg/Breisgau 

Political career 

- April 1985 until November 1994 Minister for the Environment 

in Saarland 

- November 1994 until September 1999 Chairman of the Europe 

Committee in the parliament of Saarland 

- June 1995 until September 1999 Member of the Committee of 

the Regions (CR) of the European Union and in the Chamber of 

the regions (CLRAE) of the Council of Europe Congress 

Civil society 

- 1977 – 1984 Spokesman of the board of the environmental 

movement (BBU) in Germany and Vice-President of the Euro- 

pean Environment Agency (EEA) in Brussels 

- Since 1995 Member of the Board of EUROSOLAR Deutschland 

- Since May 1997 until April 2006 President of the Union of 

European Federalists (UEF), Brussels 

- Since April 2005 Honorary President of the Union of European 

Federalists (UEF) 

- Member of the Board of the Institute for European Policy (IEP), 

Berlin 

- Member of the Advisory board of the Committee for a Demo- 

cratic UN 

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- Since December 2002 Vice-president of the European Move- 

ment International 

Convention 

- May – September 2000 Member of the delegation of the 

European Parliament in the convention for preparing a Charter 

of fundamental rights of the EU 

European Parliament 

- Member of the European Parliament since July 1999 

- Chairman of the Committee on Environment, Public Health, 

Food Security since 2009 

- Chairman of the Constitution Committee from 2004 until 2009 

- Deputy member in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human 

Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy 

- Member of the inter-parliamentary delegation for the relations 

to South Asia 

- Deputy member of the parity-based EU-ACP Parliamentary 

Assembly 

- Initiator of intergroup “European Constitution” 

42


Frank Dupré 

Vice President Zentralverband 

Deutsches Baugewerbe, 

Berlin 

Born on October 11, 1954 in Speyer 

Professional engagement 

- 1993 – 1998 Member of the City Council of the city of Speyer 

and member of the Building Committee of the 

city of Speyer 

- 1984 – 1996 Deputy Chairman of the Federal Union of compa- 

nies for recycling building materials 

Chairman of the Federal Quality Association for 

compost 

- 1987 – 2000 Senior master of the Building Trade and carpenter 

guild Speyer 

- Since 1988 Chairman of the Committee for Environment and 

Technology in the Central federation of German 

building trade 

- 1989 – 1992 Chairman of the Association of young building 

contractors in the ZDB (founder chairman) 

- 1992 – 1994 Chairman of the Palatine Building Trade Associa- 

tion 

- 1994 – 2006 President of the Rhinehessen-Palatinate Building 

Trade Association 

Further memberships in bodies 

- Since 1996 Member of the Board of the Federal Association 

for Recycling of Building Materials 

- Since 1996 Management member of the Recycling carrier for 

Building 

- Since 1998 Member of the Plenary Assembly of the Palatine 

Chamber of Industry and Commerce 

- Since 2005 Member of the Supervisory board of the for 

Building Industry Pension Fund, at present Chair 

man 

- Since 2005 Member of the Board of directors of the Holiday 

and Equalisation Fund of the Building Industry, at 

present chairman of the board 

- Since 2005 Board member of the Association of Building 

Industry Professionals 

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- Since 2005 Board member of the Federal Union of German 

employers’ associations 

- Since 2005 Chairman of the Committee for Social and Wage 

Policy in the Central Federation of German Building Trade 

- Since 2005 Vice-President of the Central Federation of 

German Building Trade 

- Since 2006 President of the Rhineland-Palatinate Building 

Trade Association 

- Since 2008 Vice-President of the FIEC (Association of Euro- 

pean Building Industry) 

Awards: 

- 2005 Silver badge of the Southwest Building Professio- 

nal Association Karlsruhe 

- 2006 Badge of honour in Silver of the Palatine small 

business trade group 

- 2007 Badge of honour in Gold of the Palatine small 

business trade group 

- 2006 Golden medal of merit of the Central Federation 

of German Building Trade 

- 2008 Golden badge of honour of the Rhineland- Palati- 

nate Building Trade Association 

44



President The Cyprus 

Recycling Association 

(CRA),Limmasol 

Panagiotis Alaveras, eng. grad., is engineering consultant, founder 

and Vice-President of the Cyprus Recycling Association. He is 

married to Evangelia and has two children Georg and Johannes. 

He studied civil engineering at the Aristoteles TU Thessaloniki, is 

Herder scholarship holder by the HSV Hamburg foundation and 

continued his studies at the Vienna BOKU. 

He was the fi rst in Greece talking about the subject of assessing 

the quantity of residual building masses in 1999 by “Methods for 

the Determination of the Quantity of the C& D Waste in Greece”. 

He took part in carrying through waste management studies 

(master plan) in Greece, Cyprus and Chechnya. He has organized 

numerous seminars on waste management (advanced training of 

persons in this fi eld) in Cyprus, Germany, Chechnya and Greece. 

He was the representative of the prefecture of Thessaloniki in EC 

projects, authorized consultant of the Cyprus Ministry of the 

Interior for planning and preparing an integrated waste management 

system for residual building masses including planning of the 

construction of all facilities required or residual building mass 

dumps, recycling plants for building materials in the regions of 

Nicosia, Larnaka and Ammochostos (2004 – 2006). 

He is a consultant for many regions and municipalities in Greece 

and Cyprus as well as for private recycling companies in the fi eld of 

recycling and recycling of residual building masses. 

He is the representative of Cyprus in the European Quality Association 

Recycling e. V. (EQAR). 

He is a member of the Federation International Recycling FIR. He is 

the founder member of the “Institute for the Investigation of new 

Greek Literature and Environmental Protection” dealing with the 

common way. 

He has been a member of the Greek-Austrian league. His paper “On 

the Loss of the Dignity of Man in Waste Management” is regarded 

as preamble for introducing the waste problems or management of 

valuable substances and hopefully will be adopted as future strategy 

by the politicians in Southeast Europe. 

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Waste Sector Director WSP 

UK 

WSP is an international engineering and environmental consultancy 

with around 10,000 people worldwide. Beverley is WSP’s Waste 

Sector Director for the UK and has over 20 years experience in 

industry and consultancy. 

She is a Chartered Geologist and after an early career on the North 

Sea Oil trigs and mining and exploration in Southern Africa, she 

returned to the UK to work predominantly in the environmental 

fi eld. She has worked across many industrial sectors, including oil 

and gas, mining, waste, property, food and drink manufacturing 

and retail. 

She is currently leading WSP’s aspirations in the UK waste sector, 

outlining strategy, developing opportunities, identifying potential 

partners and putting together appropriate teams, together with 

raising WSP profi le in the sector. Beverley provides advice to 

investors, developers and government on waste management and 

residual treatment options, evaluating the fi nancial, commercial 

and technical risks involved in project development. 

Beverley lives in Yorkshire and is married with three children. 

Beverley’s presentation will outline the UK’s challenges, strategy 

and subsequent progress in reducing, reusing and recycling waste 

in the construction sector. 

She will reference the UK’s Waste and Resource Action 

Programme’s approach to assisting the construction sector achieve 

the reduction targets set and will present a case study around a 

major redevelopment project, London Bridge Station and surrounding 

area. 

46


Anna Braune 

Senior Consultant 

PE International AG, 

Stuttgart 

Born in 1974 

- Over nine years experience in LCA projects. 

- Master degree in Environmental Engineering, 

Technical University of Berlin. 

- Expert for certifi cation of buildings and building lifecycle 

assessment and environmental product declarations (EPD). 

- Particular experience in carrying out policy supporting studies. 

- Accredited auditor for the German Sustainable Building 

Certifi cate (DGNB). 

- Founding CEO of the German Sustainable Building Council. 

- Project coordinator of European Commission funded project 

IMPRO-BUILDING: Environmental Improvement Potentials of 

Residential Buildings (2008). 

- Project coordinator of German Federal Ministry for Research 

funded project ÖKOPOT: Product-related ecological potential 

analysis for wooden products (2008). 

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Member of CEN/TC 351, 

Brussels 

born on 27/12/1940 in Vienna 

- 1959 A-levels BRG I – Vienna, Stubenbastei 

- 1969 Diploma 

Study of civil engineering at Vienna Technical 

University 

- 1970-1978 Fa. Hamberger 

Building site manager, e.g. Uno City 

- 1978 examination for a freelance engineer 

- 1978-1980 UNION BAU 

in charge of bridge building 

Chairman of the Board 1980 

- 1981-1991 UNIVERSALEBAU after fusion with UNION BAU 

in charge of bridge building 

Project manager of the Austrian Consortium for 

railway construction in Algeria 

in charge of civil engineering 

- 1989 Examination for a master builder 

Executive director OEKOTECHNA 

Environmental engineering – subsidiary company 

of UNIVERSALE 

- 1992-1995 BAYER & Co., executive director 

- 1995-2010 Bros. HAIDER, executive director 

- 1998-dato Executive director for waste legislation of a 

microbiological treatment plant of company MAB 

- 2000-2005 Lector at the University of Applied Sciences 

Campus Vienna 

Branch of Construction Ecology 

„Landfi ll technology and remediation of contami- 

nated sites” 

- 2006 Consultant 

in the waste management and material extrac- 

tion branch 

48


Activities in associations: 

- 1990-1995 Environmental committee of the Trade Associati 

on of the Construction Industry, 

there of 2 years as chairman and spokesman on 

environment of construction industry (supple- 

ment 16.5) 

Chairman of the Dumping Working Group in the 

Section for Industry of the Austrian Federal 

Economic Chamber 

- 1990up 

to now Austrian Association for Recycling of Building 

Materials Board member 

Austrian Quality Protection Association for 

Recycled Building Materials 

Chairman of the Board, Board member 

Austrian Standards Committee FNUA 157 

Remediation of contaminated sites 

EN standards TC 154 

Aggregates 

- 1991up 

to now responsible editor of instructions and leafl ets of 

the Austrian Association for Recycling of Building 

Materials 

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The Cyprus Recycling Association (CRA) 

Pindarou 24, Flat 501 

CY-1060 Nicosia/Cypern 

E-Mail: alavera@otenet.g 

Mirko Arend 

Messe München GmbH 

Meessegelände 

D-81823 München 

E-Mail: Mirko.arend@messe-muenchen.de 

Manfred Bäcker 

Container Company GmbH + Co. KG 

Gußstahlweg 32 

D-58099 Hagen 

E-Mail: baecker@cc-hagen.de 

Dr. Carolin Bahr 

KIT Karlsruher Institut für Technologie 

Kaiserstraße 12 

D-76131 Karlsruhe 

E-Mail: caolin.bahr@kit.edu 

Georges Blasen 

Admin. De L‘Environnement 

L-1013 Luxembourg 

Anna Braune 

PE INTERNATIONAL AG 

Hauptstraße 111-113 

D-70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen 

E-Mail: a.braune@pe-international.com 

Michael Brookshaw 

Sandvic Europe GmbH 

Hanninx Weg 19 

D-47807 Krefeld 

E-Mail: michael.brookshaw@sandvik.com 

Martin Car 

Österreichischer Güteschutzverband Recycling-Baustoffe 

Karlsgasse 5 

A-1040 Wien 

E-Mail: brv@brv.at 

Helmut Conrads 

BSR Schotterwerk GmbH 

Rüst 30 

D-52224 Stolberg 

E-Mail: h.conrads@bsr-online.com 

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Frank Conrads 

BSR Schotterwerk GmbH 

Rüst 30 


E-Mail: f.conrads@bsr-online.com 

Romain Coos 

RECYMA S.A. 

7, rue Alcide de Gaspari 

L-1013 Luxembourg 

E-Mail: romain.coos@recyma.lu 

Frank Dupré 

C. Dupré Bau GmbH & Co. KG 

Franz-Kirrmeier-Straße 17 

D-67346 Speyer 

E-Mail: f.dupre@t-online.de 

Bettina Erdmann 

Pressebüro transit berlin.pro media 

Torstraße 177 

D-10115 Berlin 

E-Mail: Bettina Erdmann 

Oliver Fausten 


Bataverstraße 27 


E-Mail: o.fausten@cc-gruppe.com 

Manfred Fuchs 

European Commission Enterpreise Directorate General 

Rue de la Science/Wetenschapsstraat 15 

B-1040 Brüssel 

E-Mail: Manfred.Fuchs@ec.europa.eu 

Hans Gareis 

MG Metallgewinnung GmbH 

Otto-Hahn-Straße 22 

D-92421 Schrobendorf 

E-Mail: mg.gareis@web.de 


Ökotechna Ges.m.b.H. 

Waldmühlgasse 31 

A-2380 Perchtoldsdorf 

E-Mail: Guenter.Gretzmacher@oekotechna.at 

Michael Heide 

European Quality Association for Recycling e.V. 

Kronenstraße 55-58 


E-Mail: heide@zdb.de 

51


Tristan Herbst 

Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung 

Unter den Eichen 44—46 


E-Mail: tristan.Herbst@bam.de 


Wienerbruckstraße 3 

A-2344 Maria Enzersdorf 

E-Mail: harald@hirnschall.eu 

Ulrich Hoffmann 

BBA Boden- und Baustoff-Aufbereitung 

Römerstraße 112/114 

D-59075 Hamm 

E-Mail: hoffmann@bba-hamm.de 

Ramon Janssen 

AVG Goch GmbH 

Postbus 160 

NL-6590 AD Gennep 

E-Mail: jam.janssen@avgheijen.com 

Sara Janssen-Pletzinger 

AVG Goch GmbH 

Postbus 160 

NL-6590 AD Gennep 

E-Mail: jam.janssen@avgheijen.com 

Dieter Kersting 

C.C. Umwelt AG 



E-Mail: d.kersting@cc-umwelt.com 

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Klett 

Köhler & Klett Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft* 

Apostelnstraße 15/17 

D-50667 Köln 

E-Mail: w.klett@koehler-klett.de 

Rainer Klöppner 

ENECO SA 

22 r. Edmond Reuter 

L-5326 Contern 

E-Mail: info@eneco.lu 

Tijn Koppelman 

AVG Recycling Heijen BV 

Hoogveld 

NL-6598 BL Heijen 

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Colleen Lehner 

Lehner Beton Recycling 

Wiesenstraße 13 

CH-5412 Gebensdorf 

change2004@bluewin.ch 

Jo Leinen 

MdP Europäisches Parlament 

Rue Wiertz 

B-1047 Bruxelles 

E-Mail: jo.leinen@europarl.europa.eu 

Wolfgang Lenzen 

Recycling Kall GmbH 

Daimlerstraße 1 

D-53925 Kall 

E-Mail: recyclingkall@t-online.de 

Dr. Dominik Lück 

Köhler & Klett Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft* 

Apostelnstraße 15/17 

D-50667 Köln 

E-Mail: d.lueck@koehler-klett.de 

Johannes Manger 

Messe München GmbH 

Messegelände 

D-81823 München 

E-Mail: johannes.manger@messe-muenchen.de 

Albrecht Marx 

Konsortium Bauschutt 

Schlachthofstraße 57 

I-39100 Bozen 

E-Mail: marx57@tin.it 

Dr. Hans Menzel 

Paul Wolff GmbH 

Monschauer Straße 22 

D-41068 Mönchengladbach 

E-Mail: dr.menzel@paulwolff.de 

Dr. Josef Negri 



I-39100 Bozen 

E-Mail: j.negri@coll.edile 

David Ostendorf 

Bundesgütegemeinschaft Recycling-Baustoffe e.V. 



E-Mail: ostendorf@zdb.de 

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FIEC - Verband der Europäischen Bauwirtschaft 

Avenue Louise 225 


E-Mail: u.paetzold@fi ec.eu 


WSP Environment & Energy-Marketing Communications Executive 

WSP House, 70 

Chancery Lane 

GB-London WC2A 1AF 

E-Mail: Beverley.Parrish@WSPGroup.com 

Jürgen Ramers 

Vereinigte Schotterwerke GmbH & Co. KG 

Probsteistraße 12 


Dr. Stefania Rosseo 

SGS Intron B.V. 

Dr. Nolenslaan 126 

NL-6136 GV Sittart 

Hans Sander 



I-39100 Bozen 

E-Mail: sander.dlu@web.de 

Dr. Marianna Sarkissova 




Gerhard Schulze 




E-Mail: d.schulze@cc-gruppe.com 

Hannes Schwienbacher 

Schwienbacher Erdbewegungen GmbH 

Josef-Aigner-Straße 3 

I-39011 Lana (BZ) 

E-Mail: info@schwienbacher-lana.com 

Dr. Miroslav Skopan 

ARSM 

Technicka 2 

CZ-61669 Brno 

E-Mail: arsm@arsm.cz 

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Frank Staubitz 


Gußstahlweg 32 

D-58099 Hagen 

E-Mail: Staubitz@cc-hagen.de 

Roland Störing 

C.C. Holding GmbH 



E-Mail: r.stoering@cc-gruppe.com 

Wolfgang Türlings 

RFB Tönisvorst GmbH 

Butzenstraße 39 

D-47918 Tönisvorst 

E-Mail: rfb-recycling-@t-online.de 

Christa Ueberscher 

European Quality Association for Recycling e.V. 



E-Mail: ueberscher@zdb.de 

Gert van der Wegen 




E-Mail: gert.vanderwegen@sgs.vom 

Erwin van Laere 

Confédération Construction 

Rue du Lombard 34-42 


E-Mail: erwin.vanlaere@vcb.be 

Prof. Enric Vazquez 

Universität Politecnica Catalunya 

c/Jordi Girona 31 

E-8034 Barcelona 

E-Mail: enric.vazquez@upc.edu 

Almut Voß 

GFB Erft-Labor 

Vom-Stein-Straße 20 

D-53879 Euskirchen 

E-Mail: Info@Erft-Labor.de 

Jereon Vrijders 

BBRI 

Rue de Lombard 42 


E-Mail: jereon.vrijders@bbri.be 

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Inti-Benjamin Walther 

Cemex Deutschland AG 

Theodorstraße 178 

D-40472 Düsseldorf 

E-Mail: inti-benjamin.walther@cemex.com 





E-Mail: G,Wolfers@cc-gruppe.com 

Gee Wierichs 

MG Metallgewinnung GmbH 

Otto-Hahn-Straße 22 

D-92421 Schwandorf 

E-Mail: gee.wierichs@web-de 

Gunther Wolff 

DG Environment Sustainable Consumption and Production (C2) 

Av. de Beaulieu / Beaulieulaan 5 / 5-118 


E-Mail: Gunther.WOLFF@ec.europa.eu 

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