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Automated solutions for sustainable and circular construction and demolition waste management

Deliverables

Consortium agreement and Project Management Handbook

Preparation, negotiation, conclusion and adoption of consortium agreement which clarifies rules, duties, obligations and rights between the project partners, which are not covered and ruled by the Project Grant Agreement. It covers also actions and manners how the consortium is organized and managed. Project Handbook provides additional rules, definitions and explanations for operational execution of the project with respect to financial procedures and obligations, reporting etc.

Data Management Plan

The aim of this deliverable is the preparation and adoption of the project Data Management Plan which is one of the mandatory deliverables and documents which have to be provided by the consortium and have to be used and updated during the project execution phase.

RECONMATIC periodic report I

Mandatory periodic report (1st reporting period) about the progress and achieved outputs of the project for the first monitoring period.

Dissemination and communication activities plan

Report including dissemination and communication activities plan

Evaluation of current practices and policies in CDW management in EU countries, the UK and China. New technologies and automated solutions

This evaluation will include the results from subtasks T1.1 and T1.2. The purpose is to perform an assessment in the EU (with specific analyses over a number of EU countries), as well as the UK and China, regarding the following aspects:- Current targets, policies, legislation, standards and certification systems applicable to circular economy in the construction industry, implementation and future trends;- Current waste production in construction and markets of secondary products for construction materials;- Current best practices in the construction sector for waste management;- Identification of barriers, risks and drivers;The purpose of this initial evaluation is to set benchmarks for comparison and allow assessment of impact of this project. Additionally, other industrial sectors will be explored to identify potential technologies, automated and robotic solutions that could be applicable for raising efficiency in CDW management and treatment in different lifecycle stages of a built structure, their readiness for validation, implementation and exploitation.The methods used will be based on:- secondary research, with data and information gathering for synthesis and analysis;- surveys and interviews to different stakeholders involved in CDW management, making statistical analysis of results;- comparison to key performance indices (including economic, social and economic metrics);The results will feed WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5 and WP6.

Digital Information Management System

The purpose of the digital information management system (DIMS) is to integrate the different stages of CDW management by providing an integrated digital approach to enable waste traceability and management, where built asset project information is managed through the whole life cycle. This approach will establish a standardised information management workflow/process. This in turn, will serve to integrate the key stakeholders, ensuring that the right information is provided and accessible by the right ones, at the right time, providing a single view of the truth of the built asset information model at key stages in the life cycle (i.e., design, construction, operations, deconstruction, new products life), to effectively enable CDW management (e.g. across the demonstrators). The DIMS will be established through the adoption and customisation of a cloud-based collaboration (BIM information model) solution, underpinned by existing standards, protocols, etc. for information management of BIM/digital twins, etc. This will facilitate a seamless flow of the required built asset information through the whole-life and CDW management process enabled through the interoperability of the different tools through open exchange standards. The required aspects of information security, privacy, and confidentiality will also be considered in alignment with relevant standards. Analytics and smart tools will be integrated to demonstrate the real-time dashboarding and reporting of the CDW management information to support more effective decision making. In addition, the tools for CDW management developed in RECONMATIC will be considered to be integrated within the DIMS to further demonstrate the enhancement of the seamless flow of information throughout the process. The operation of the DIMS will be validated through the implementation of the scenarios in the demonstrators in RECONMATIC. A DIMS version will be adapted to the Chinese market, corresponding standards and regulations to be applied, and offering similar potential use for CDW management and waste traceability in the Chinese construction industry.

Publications

Earth and Environmental Science

Author(s): IOP
Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2022
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/1123/1/012024

On using Hyperledger Fabric over networks: Ordering phase improvementsOn using Hyperledger Fabric over networks: Ordering phase improvements

Author(s): Stavros Dimou; Kostas Choumas; Thanasis Korakis
Published in: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCWorkshops57953.2023.10283642

Towards the digitalization and automation of circular and sustainable construction and demolition waste management – project RECONMATIC

Author(s): E Koroxenidis, A Karanafti1, K Tsikaloudaki and T Theodosiou
Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2023
Publisher: IOP SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/1196/1/012044

Machine-learning-assisted classification of construction and demolition waste fragments using computer vision: Convolution versus extraction of selected features

Author(s): Nežerka, Václav; Zbíral, Tomáš; Trejbal, Jan
Published in: Crossref, 2024, ISSN 1873-6793
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2023.121568

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