Sustainable Constructions in Malaysia: Waste Materials as Aggregates Replacement

Sustainable Construction - Waste Materials as Aggregates Replacement is the book comprising of ten (10) chapters. Each of these chapters discusses a different type of industrial, agricultural and natural wastes that demonstrate promise for future use in construction industries. Recycling of those waste materials found in abundance, can avoid deleterious environmental hazards and their incorporation has actually produced products towards sustainable construction. The results presented in these studies are not only beneficial both economically and environmentally, but also provide the industry with technical information on valuable resources that has a key role in meeting the challenges of sustainable construction in today's world. The high demand of natural resources due to rapid urbanization and the disposal problem of industrial and agricultural wastes have created opportunities for utilising these wastes (building demolished waste, laterite aggregates, garnet, water treatment plant waste, plastic aggregates, palm oil clinker) as aggregates replacement in the concrete. Research has shown that waste materials incorporated in concrete could enable the construction industry to become more sustainable and economical but also a contributor to overcome other related ecological, sociological and economic problems associated with it.