Sustainable aggregate management ensures the availability of aggregates for construction, enhances the long-term durability of structures, promotes the realisation of the circular economy, and reduces emissions and environmental impacts.
Infrastructure projects are also carried out in areas that offer no suitable locations for establishing an aggregate quarry. In such cases, the construction-related quarrying and further processing of rock into aggregates improves the regional availability of aggregates for various uses. In addition to geological factors, the properties and quality of aggregates at the end-use application are influenced by the quarrying, transport, production process and storage of aggregates.
The resource efficiency of aggregate production can be promoted through inventories of rock extracted from construction sites and cooperation between quarrying, aggregate producers, and users of the various aggregate end products. The quality criteria for aggregates vary according to their use, which is why suitability should always be assessed as a whole.
GTK’s rock aggregate study identifies the best aggregates for specific uses, which improves the economic viability of aggregate use and allows the customer to make the most of their resources.
By coordinating the schedules of regional infrastructure and construction projects, aggregates can be processed in the vicinity of the target site, which also reduces the emissions and harmful environmental impacts caused by the construction work. So-called mass coordination means that excavated or extracted soil and rock materials are either utilised or placed in landfills in a planned manner.
Long-term mass coordination efforts incorporate both project-specific objectives and the management of masses involved in large regional projects, which allows the supply to meet the demand.
GTK’s service promotes mass coordination by providing information on the availability of different types of soil and rock materials to operators such as land use planners, designers, and constructors.
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