Re-use, recycling and future of demolished buildings in Russia

Dasha SinishinIrina DombrovskayaAleksandra PravikovskayaKsenia LatushkoEvgenia SolodchenkoMaria Tolkombaeva

Most of the buildings will be demolished sooner or later.

In the process of work a lot of waste is formed.

What shall we do with these

wastes?

land filling recycling

Construction waste

Consist of :

63% – crushed brick

26% – ferroconcrete items breakage

Construction wastes

11% – wood wastes and scrap metal

Procedure

We need some Demolition permit

Regulations for preparation and execution of earth-

moving work

Procedure

In order to demolish any building you need to implement the following procedure:

prepare the draft for demolition of the building,

get Demolition permit,

Procedure

move the people who are staying in the building and offices

make ready the territory for the demolition,

demolish the building

Procedure

clean up the territory,

remove and recycle construction wastes

Actual problems

Customer must be sure that contractor has all the needed documents such as a Permission for operation with wastes

Re-using and recycling

The rate of recycling of all dismantled construction material is only 1%

There is no sorting of construction rubble at all

There are some open reasons:

Lack of information about sources of materials, composition of materials, including information of specification, standards, legislation and performance

High costs of transportation and material storage;

Complications with legislation: it is necessary to convert construction rubble from the class of waste to the class of recyclable materials.

There are some variants such as facade preservation, but with the replacement of all inside, especially when we are talking about some historical buildings.

National laws and regulations

The Federal Law ‘On waste production and

consumption’

the ownership of the waste belongs to the owner of the

material

An art. 751 of the Civil Code

the ownership of the waste belongs to contractors and

subcontractors

The Federal Law ‘On technical regulation’

the owner of the waste is the legal entity who is responsible for the

areas where the wastes are located legally.

In each case, you need to control the contract

because these civil rules are applied only if

they satisfy contract terms or requirement

We should right one extra section in the contract:

ownership and responsibility for the waste

Conclusion

Thank you for your

attention!