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Abundant Materials Jargon Buster
Abundant Materials Jargon Buster
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Definition:
Material/product that is naturally abundant, sufficient for future needs at future consumption rates
Examples:
mined or scraped materials
sand, gravel, soils, rock,
Material applications:
Ground modelling,
Earth walls,
Brown Roofs,
claddings,
paving,
fills,
landscape
Reservations:
Use of synthetic, petrochemical, heavy metals, hazardous: treatments, binders, additives, etc.
Exceptions/Exclusions:
Landscape and biodiversity degradation
No beneficial use of by-product or waste
Waste generated and stored at ground level or deposited in landfill/landrise
Requires vast amounts of energy to extract a metal from an ore, or material from an oxide
Examples:
Metals: High energy or CO2 intense processing for use (aluminium especially)
Limestone for cement production (lime preferred)
Advantages:
Some reuse potential at end of building life
Return to land, landscape or agricultural use
Potential substitutes:
Recycled aggregates
Recycled waste
(CAP’EM BRM ’10 & GreenSpec BRM ’11)
© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy aka BrianSpecMan
2010 – 22nd June 2013 – 28th November 2018
Abundant Materials Jargon Buster
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29th October 2013 – 28th November 2018
Abundant Materials Jargon Buster
See Also:
NGS JARGON BUSTER
- Abundant Material (this page)
- Agricultural Co-Product, By-Products Or Waste
- By-product
- CAP’EM
- Co-product
- Economically accessible
- Healthy Material
- Peak materials
- Renewable Materials
- Rapidly Renewable Material
- Non-renewable Material
- VOC
- Waste