Building demolition: waste only?

"Nothing gets thrown out!" Our grandmothers used to say. What you use if you reuse it, it becomes something different. To throw something out was to waste it, to waste something was to lose money. In short, the circular economy existed even then. The same could be said today in demolition processes, especially when it comes to demolishing and then redeveloping. Nothing or almost nothing is thrown away. Select the material, work it if necessary, and then re-use it, directly on-site or somewhere else.

 A company in Spain understands this well, having recently demolished its old shed, to then build another one in its place. "Our demolition process was much more than breaking down the shed," they stated, "it was like destroying a building made with Legos and then using the same bricks to build a new one. So, we did. What we demolished, we reused for the most part to redo the building. The biggest job was done by the MB Crusher’s crusher bucket, with which we crushed the inert materials to reuse them as the basis for the new shed. Single operating machine, with a single operator, in the same yard, quickly and with a minimum investment. "

Building demolition: Waste only? No, in fact, demolition is a process made up of various steps— time and cost— which is the basis of a change. And if the demolition is done correctly with the correct machinery, it can also cost advantageous for the company. Sufficient to say, sustainable demolition saves about 80% of the waste from the landfill. Selective demolition—green demolition or deconstruction— can seem more expensive, longer, more demanding. In reality, it saves money, time, and tax benefits.

In France, a company managed to recycle almost all the demolition debris of an old house and reuse them to build the new one directly on the spot, forgetting all the logistics and disposal problems.

In Turkey, one excavator and one operator recovered and recycled the road demolition material – a mixture of basalt and asphalt— directly on-site and at a very low cost. How? By attaching a BF90.3 crusher bucket to his excavator, which collected the excavated material, then crushed it and made it available on site for immediate re-use.

Selective demolition, therefore, is the first step towards a circular economy in which construction values specified obtained waste. The quality of the result depends on the type of demolition process and the machinery used for the separation and processing of the resulting materials.

The MB Crusher product range is precisely designed and built around these needs.

For example, if you need to have material crushed or screened to different sizes, adjust the jaws of the crusher bucket or change the panels of the screening bucket directly on-site (video Uruguay). If you need to handle material of different types and sizes, install the right accessory on the MB-G clamps.

Anyone who uses MB machinery can regain value from the waste from his construction site, turning waste into quality material, converting the raw material into profit.

With the MB Crusher attachments, maximize the recovery of the quantity and the quality of waste materials: reduction of cost of transporting the waste material, reduction of the costs of transfer to landfills or treatment plants, elimination of material repurchase costs, profits obtained through the re-use or recycling of the material.

Moreover, if well managed, a sustainable demolition project has a significant impact on the state of abandonment of many urban and industrial areas. Where a dilapidated house or warehouse is demolished and replaced with a new one, there is added value, with benefits for the whole city and for the community that lives nearby.

The goal of recycling 70% of construction waste by 2020, as the EU has established, is possible when and where appropriate solutions are used correctly.