On 28-29 November 2018, the University of Luxembourg hosted the mid-term conference of the Interreg North-West Europe project SeRaMCo “Secondary Raw Materials for Concrete Precast Products”. More than 80 participants from academia and industry attended this event on Belval campus.
Initiated in 2017 for a 3-year period with a 7.28 million euros budget and involving 17 partners from 5 European countries, SeRaMCo aims to replace primary raw materials with the high-quality materials recycled from construction and demolition waste (CDW). Although CDW represents the largest waste stream in the EU, accounting for 1/3 of the overall waste, only 4% of the recycled CDW are currently used. The mid-term conference was a great opportunity to show first results of the project and to exchange with invited expert speakers.
Prof. Danièle Waldmann, Head of the Solid Structures research group at the University of Luxembourg presented the context in which the project was launched. “As coordinator of the “Construction Materials” group of the University of the Greater Region (UniGR) since 2013, we discussed and worked on different topics but construction and demolition waste (CDW) was a recurrent theme among the partners. Thus, we decided to better analyse and improve sorting of CDW, to develop and test new concrete mixes and to place these new recycled products on the market: SeRaMCo was born!”
Discover the full article on the website of the University of Luxembourg.
More information: https://seramco.uni.lu