Construction minerals account for the largest share of urban resource consumption and waste. Therefore, circular economy is a key factor for sustainable urban development. In April, the WWTF research project MaMinRes has started under the consortium lead of Jakob Lederer (Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Process Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Technical Biosciences) in collaboration with the TU Institute for Water Quality and Resource Management, the BOKU Institute of Structural Engineering, FHWien WKW and OIR.
The main focus of the project is to localise, quantify, evaluate and classify anthropogenic mineral resources in urban areas in order to use them in a circular economy of construction minerals. The ÖIR team – Christof Schremmer, Cristian Andronic, Stephanie Kirchmayr-Novak, Ursula Mollay, Wolfgang Neugebauer and Joanne Tordy – will be responsible for accompanying the project from an urban planning perspective and to design future urban development scenarios until 2050.
