Supply chain integration for structural steel reuse

Completed

Not Energy Related
Energy Efficiency(Industry)

Applied Research and Development

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Metallurgy and Materials)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Civil Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Project Contact
The Steel Construction Institute

Feasibility Study

Innovate UK

01 November 2015

31 August 2016

10 months

£100,824

South East

Competition Call: 1503_FS_BUIL_ECCSC - Supply Chain Integration in Construction. Activity Supply chain integration in construction

Project Contact, The Steel Construction Institute

Project Contact, Alliance for Sustainable Building Products
Project Contact, University of Cambridge

The objective of this project is to encourage widespread reuse of structural steel in the UK through improved coordination and information exchange along the construction supply chain. Currently only 5% of structural steel is reused, but reusing steel leads to significant energy and emissions savings compared to the common practice of recycling steel. By coordinating information from designers and demolition contractors, the supply and demand of reused steel can be matched, leading to the deconstruction and reuse of buildings compared to traditional destructive demolition. This in turn, will lead to reduced embodied emissions impacts, cost savings and the development of a new UK market supporting steel reuse. This project will examine the practical and economic feasibility of establishing an on-line information portal through which the supply and demand of reused steel are mapped to stimulate a reused structural steel market.The objective of this project is to encourage widespread reuse of structural steel in the UK through improved coordination and information exchange along the construction supply chain. Currently only 5% of structural steel is reused, but reusing steel leads to significant energy and emissions savings compared to the common practice of recycling steel. By coordinating information from designers and demolition contractors, the supply and demand of reused steel can be matched, leading to the deconstruction and reuse of buildings compared to traditional destructive demolition. This in turn, will lead to reduced embodied emissions impacts, cost savings and the development of a new UK market supporting steel reuse. This project will examine the practical and economic feasibility of establishing an on-line information portal through which the supply and demand of reused steel are mapped to stimulate a reused structural steel market.The objective of this project is to encourage widespread reuse of structural steel in the UK through improved coordination and information exchange along the construction supply chain. Currently only 5% of structural steel is reused, but reusing steel leads to significant energy and emissions savings compared to the common practice of recycling steel. By coordinating information from designers and demolition contractors, the supply and demand of reused steel can be matched, leading to the deconstruction and reuse of buildings compared to traditional destructive demolition. This in turn, will lead to reduced embodied emissions impacts, cost savings and the development of a new UK market supporting steel reuse. This project will examine the practical and economic feasibility of establishing an on-line information portal through which the supply and demand of reused steel are mapped to stimulate a reused structural steel market.

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