Crushed Bricks: Demolition Waste as a Sustainable Raw Material for Geopolymers

Demolition activity plays an important role in the total energy consumption of construction industry European Union. The indiscriminate use non-renewable raw materials, consumption, and unsustainable design has led to a redefinition criteria ensure environmental protection. This article introduces experimental plan that determines viability new type material, obtained from crushed brick waste, be introduced into market. potential waste as material production building precast products, by curing geopolymeric blend at 60 °C for 3 days, been exploited. Geopolymers represent alternative reducing emissions whilst, same time, achieving considerable mechanical performance. results this study show geopolymers produced were characterized good properties terms open porosity, water absorption, strength, surface resistance values when compared materials using traditional technologies.