The precast concrete industry makes a decisive contribution to cover the growing need for residential and non-residential buildings. This task is associated with a substantial consumption of mineral aggregates. As a new approach to increasing resource efficiency, the creation of material cycles has been started. An example is the use of recycled aggregates for the manufacture of R (resource-conserving) concrete, resorting to „end-of-life concrete" as anthropogenic raw material deposit.
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