DIRECT-MAT : sharing knowledge and practices on recycling of road materials in Europe

Presented at Wascon 2009, the 7th International Conference on Sustainable Management of waste and recycled materials in construction, 3-5 June 2009, Lyon, FranceDIRECT-MAT is a three-year European project aiming to facilitate the sharing of national experiences on dismantling and recycling or safe disposal of road and road related materials at the European level. It was initiated within the EC 7th Framework Programme Transport first call and is comprised of partners from fifteen participating countries for a budget of 1,2 million Euros. The project runs through 2009–2011 and involves building a European Web database and drafting best practice guides on DIsmantling and RECycling Techniques for road MATerials (“DIRECT-MAT”). The intention is that project results shall support the daily work of practitioners, researchers and standardisation bodies. Several materials are addressed – unbound, hydraulically bound and asphalt road materials, but also other materials related to road use but not commonly recycled in road construction. These include tyre shreds, sediment from ditches, industrial by-products and reinforcement materials. The work programme is organised into seven work packages where four packages focus on the various construction materials, one is devoted to the database and the remaining two work packages to management & coordination and dissemination. Dissemination activities include cooperation with a Reference Group consisting of end users in several countries; presentations in national and international papers and conferences as well as the arrangement of national seminars and a European workshop for end users. Continuous project information will be available at http://direct-mat.fehrl.org. At present, many European countries have acquired experience in dismantling and recycling road materials back into roads. However, research results are not widely implemented and national documents are not often available to specialists from other countries. In this European project, twenty partners cooperate to build a web database that will provide access to validated guidelines, national document references, harmonised literature reviews and practical application case studies based on jobsite data sets. In this way DIRECT-MAT will actively contribute to generating closer cooperation between research and practice within road material recycling and also contribute to reducing the waste disposal associated with roads.European Research CouncilConference detailshttp://www.insavalor.fr/wascon2009Direct_Mat project, GA 218656Temporary copyright granted by publisher: "I am afraid the everyone that I have to ask is on summer holiday.., and I will be soon as well. I guess it will be about mid August or September before I can answer your question. Since I do not see a reason why the permission should be withheld, I give you a temporary permission (and hope by August/Sept. to give a permanent one..). So you can put the article in your repository if you are able to remove if anyone should object by August/September." Conference website at: http://www.insavalor.fr/wascon2009/index.php?page=welcome&location=p_contenu DG 06/07/10 au,ti.kpw21/7/1

The DIRECT-MAT Web Database–A Source of Knowledge in Road Recycling

AbstractThis paper describes the DIRECT-MAT web database which gathers European knowledge and practices about the demolition and road-recycling or safe disposal of old road materials. This database has been developed within a three-year coordination and support action under the EC 7th Framework program “Sustainable Surface Transport” for the purpose of supporting the daily work of practitioners, researchers and standardization bodies working in the field of road infrastructures.The database addresses unbound, hydraulically bound and asphalt road materials. It also addresses other materials related to road use but not commonly recycled into road construction. These include tire shreds, sediment from ditches, road reinforcement materials and industrial by-products as long as they come from the demolition of a road into which they were recycled a first time. The database provides on-line access to Best Practice Guides, practical application case studies and international literature reviews elaborated from the review of national documents.There are three different ways for searching the database: 1) Via specific documents – Literature reviews, Case study reports and Best Practice Guides – for each material type; 2) Via quick or advanced search for specific terms; 3) Via a map where case studies are geo-tagged.The DIRECT-MAT database has been developed by some fifty experts from fifteen European countries. This means that national documents, working sites data and research results have now become easily available to road authorities, CEN technical committees and researchers from other countries. This share of national knowledge and practices is expected to boost recycling, thus DIRECT-MAT will contribute to reducing waste disposal associated with roads. Furthermore, the DIRECT-MAT web database is expected to serve as a reference tool for recording and sharing working site data on the demolition and recycling of road materials throughout Europe

Recycling reclaimed road material in hydraulically bound layers

The European Direct-mat project provided a significant contribution to increasing recycling reclaimed road wastes. Part of the project was dedicated to the recycling of various reclaimed road materials in new hydraulically bound layers. This paper summarises the results of the project and the activities of the eight contributing European countries. Several examples from countries outside the project are also provided to give a comprehensive overview. The paper highlights the main trends of relevant practice worldwide (particularly in Europe) and draws conclusions for practitioners

DIRECT-MAT : Partage à l'échelon européen des connaissances et des pratiques en matière de recyclage des matériaux de la route

DIRECT-MAT est l'acronyme d'un projet européen de trois ans, piloté par le LCPC, visant à faciliter le partage à l'échelon européen des expériences nationales de déconstruction et de recyclage dans la route ou de mise en décharge sécurisée des matériaux routiers au sens large. Il a été initié, dans le cadre du FEHRL, lors du premier appel à projets du thème «Transport» du 7e Programme cadre de recherche et développement (PCRD) et réunit des partenaires de 15 pays pour une subvention européenne de 1,2 million d'euros. Lancé en 2009, le projet consiste à construire une base de données accessible sur Internet et à rédiger des guides de bonnes pratiques traitant de la déconstruction et du recyclage dans la route des matériaux routiers. Les retombées attendues des résultats du projet sont un appui aux donneurs d'ordre, aux entreprises, aux chercheurs et aux organismes de normalisation. L'information relative au projet sera disponible en continu sur un site Internet [1]

DIRECT-MAT : Partage à l'échelon européen des connaissances et des pratiques en matière de recyclage des matériaux de la route

DIRECT-MAT est l'acronyme d'un projet européen de trois ans, piloté par le LCPC, visant à faciliter le partage à l'échelon européen des expériences nationales de déconstruction et de recyclage dans la route ou de mise en décharge sécurisée des matériaux routiers au sens large. Il a été initié, dans le cadre du FEHRL, lors du premier appel à projets du thème «Transport» du 7e Programme cadre de recherche et développement (PCRD) et réunit des partenaires de 15 pays pour une subvention européenne de 1,2 million d'euros. Lancé en 2009, le projet consiste à construire une base de données accessible sur Internet et à rédiger des guides de bonnes pratiques traitant de la déconstruction et du recyclage dans la route des matériaux routiers. Les retombées attendues des résultats du projet sont un appui aux donneurs d'ordre, aux entreprises, aux chercheurs et aux organismes de normalisation. L'information relative au projet sera disponible en continu sur un site Internet [1]