Coventry, United Kingdom

Plasterboard and Gypsum Waste as Possible Cementitious Construction Materials

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
University website: www.coventry.ac.uk
Construction
Construction is the process of constructing a building or infrastructure. Construction differs from manufacturing in that manufacturing typically involves mass production of similar items without a designated purchaser, while construction typically takes place on location for a known client. Construction as an industry comprises six to nine percent of the gross domestic product of developed countries. Construction starts with planning, design, and financing; it continues until the project is built and ready for use.
Waste
Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance which is discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use.
Waste
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
Theodore Roosevelt, Seventh Annual Message, December 3, 1907.
Waste
Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.
William Rathje, Atlantic Monthly, December 1989.
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