Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ELG-blocks (Sustainable production of lightweight thermal concretes and concrete blocks with use of recycled industrial waste for construction of energy-efficient and/or highly seismic-safe masonry buildings)
Período documentado: 2017-01-01 hasta 2017-06-30
AEDES COOP DOO made innovative, revolutionary and cheap: a) ASET-concretes produced with the use of recycled industrial waste and b) ELG-blocks in three basic variations: thermal ELG-blocks, super strong ELG-blocks for walls and ELG-inlay-bricks for ceilings of energy-efficient and seismic-resistant masonry buildings. They are the best substitutes for clay and other masonry blocks and traditional RMX-concretes for the construction of buildings. The construction of buildings with our innovative products provides the following advantages and the EU added value that cannot be matched by any of our competitors: 1) an excellent thermal insulation and a high resistance to destructive earthquake and wind forces, 2) the construction time is reduced by 30% and 3) construction elements are 50% lighter, lowering transportation costs and construction price in Serbia by more than 20%, or by 40% in the EU. Revolutionary new design of ELG-blocks enables masonry walls in buildings to be reinforced with rebar, thereby allowing the walls built with ELG-blocks to have excellent load-bearing capacity just as reinforced RMX-concrete walls molded in concrete forms on site. Since ASET-concretes are resistant to the impacts of salt and moisture through their whole volume, they are excellent solution for construction of new and repair of old damaged bridges, by 50% cheaper than at competitors.
All AW-granulates, ASET-concretes, ELG-blocks and ELG-inlay-bricks satisfy all EU ecological standards from production, through use, until and including disposal. Savings and gains in production of ASET-concretes, ELG-blocks and ELG-inlay-bricks make them superior to our competitors because their production saves energy, as there is no baking phase involved and is furthermore sustainable, because it preserves environment through lack of any CO2e and use of various types recycled waste instead of natural resources (thereby reducing landfills). ASET-concretes, ELG-blocks and ELG-inlay-bricks save energy required for heating and/or cooling because they act like additional thermal insulation in the building.
The analyses and calculations included in our feasibility study revealed that our project ELG-blocks is feasible. Moreover, with the financial help due to high initial investments, the project is profitable with a short period of the return of the investments. Profit generated with production of other ELG-blocks is slightly lower, within the range of 20%÷35%. Our sale prices on the markets of Serbia and region are lower than the prices of our largest competitors by 15%÷40%, while our ELG-blocks have similar thermal conductivity, 3 times higher compressive strength and 2 times lower weight.
Our goal is to capture minimum 6% on the markets for construction concretes and masonry blocks in Serbia. In addition, in the target countries of the EU we will start production of our innovative products together with our local business partners. The expected period of return of the investment is 2÷3 years. Market potential in the region is ca. 10 times and in the EU ca. 100 larger. Our preliminary goal is to capture 6% of the markets of Montenegro and Croatia and 1% of the target EU markets. We need: 1) access to the financing, for both starting and carrying out production and for IP protection in the EU and key countries of the region and 2) strategic partners for carrying of our project in the EU countries, 3) in addition to the direct sale of ASET-concretes and ELG-blocks on the markets of Serbia, region and the EU, we also opted for selling licenses to our EU partners.
The direct ecological benefit of the innovation on annual level of a plant that produces 18000 ELG-blocks per day is consumption of 6450÷8900t of recycled industrial wastes. The indirect ecological benefit on annual level due to production of 4320000 ELG-blocks per year are reductions of the consumption of natural gas by 87600m3, natural granulate (gravel, sand and stone) by 46000t and CO2e by 17885t (compared with the production of clay masonry units). With help of ELG-blocks, we economically build low-energy buildings, whereby we reduce consumption of natural granulate by 50%÷90%, and clay masonry units by 100% and cement by 15%. The company also intends to license the manufacturing process allowing partner countries to produce ELG-blocks using their own waste, thus reducing the carbon footprint further. ELG-blocks and ASET-concretes have high performance features: low mass, high compressive strength, low thermal conductivity and high resistance to water and moisture. Thanks to these characteristics, walls made of super strong ELG-blocks do not break, crack, and not fall down, thereby significantly contributing to the overall stability and safety of buildings, thereby making their load-bearing capacity and stability equal to the best reinforced concrete walls built on site. The construction of the walls of energy-efficient and seismic-safe buildings is 2 times faster and cheaper than at our competitors.