DEMOCLES
Published on 15 May 2019
France
This is the good practice's implementation level. It can be national, regional or local.
About this good practice
The aim of DEMOCLES was to study with pragmatic approach what to do to increase finishing waste recycling without increasing projects global cost, nor administrative burden.
Working groups (2014-2016):
o Project Owner and Project Management responsibilities
o Valuation identification and recovery channels mapping
o Selective deconstruction and sorting
Working groups (2017-2018):
o Project Owner and Project Management responsibilities
o Valuation identification and recovery channels mapping
o Pre-demolition audit
o Training
Working groups (2019-2020):
o Pre-demolition audit
o Training
o Traceability
Projects feeback analysis and conclusions:
1. Clarify actors responsibilities: Switch from a responsibility on demolition companies only to a responsibility shared by all actors, starting with building owners
2. Building owner/client must express its will at the very beginning of the project (building refashion or demolition).
3. Project manager must prepare and follow up.
4. Demolition contractor must be a FWW specialist.
5. Wastes manager must be transparent.
DEMOCLES states that if If all this is done, finishing work wastes will be recycled more than 80% without any significant cost for building owners !
The deliverab
Working groups (2014-2016):
o Project Owner and Project Management responsibilities
o Valuation identification and recovery channels mapping
o Selective deconstruction and sorting
Working groups (2017-2018):
o Project Owner and Project Management responsibilities
o Valuation identification and recovery channels mapping
o Pre-demolition audit
o Training
Working groups (2019-2020):
o Pre-demolition audit
o Training
o Traceability
Projects feeback analysis and conclusions:
1. Clarify actors responsibilities: Switch from a responsibility on demolition companies only to a responsibility shared by all actors, starting with building owners
2. Building owner/client must express its will at the very beginning of the project (building refashion or demolition).
3. Project manager must prepare and follow up.
4. Demolition contractor must be a FWW specialist.
5. Wastes manager must be transparent.
DEMOCLES states that if If all this is done, finishing work wastes will be recycled more than 80% without any significant cost for building owners !
The deliverab
Resources needed
From fourty to more than seventy representative partners such as Contracting Authority/Project Owner, Works Companies, Construction Companies, Construction Companies and waste managers and recovery chains, meet together in several working groups since 2014. to produce state-of-the-art deliverables
Evidence of success
The recovery rate of C&D finishing work wastes keeps increasing (from 35% to now more than 40% of finishing wastes are recovered nationwide), testifying the spread of the good practice and the fruitfulness of training C&D wastes actors. The effectiveness of DEMOCLES is also testified by its set of practical tools, relatively simple and applicable to all.
Field actors are now to be trained upon to massify the use of good practices and set off continous improvement loop.
Field actors are now to be trained upon to massify the use of good practices and set off continous improvement loop.
Potential for learning or transfer
DEMOCLES so far provides the following set of tools, used as a base to implement effective C&D wastes management plan and ease the development of local and regional recovery and valuation channels. The outputs mainly regard the contracting authorities and help them thanks to guides so that to:
- Control their legal liability
- Write their bill of technical specifications (CCTPs in french).
- Enhance and value their approach
- Find the right value chains
Today, according to ADEME*, only 35% of the waste from the finishing work is recovered. However, the Energy Transition Act of 17 August 2015 set a target at 70%.
- Control their legal liability
- Write their bill of technical specifications (CCTPs in french).
- Enhance and value their approach
- Find the right value chains
Today, according to ADEME*, only 35% of the waste from the finishing work is recovered. However, the Energy Transition Act of 17 August 2015 set a target at 70%.