Tactic
Mitigation
Minimize Embodied Carbon
Keep everything on site (no off hauling to landfill)
Options
…by retaining fill; cap contaminants, balance cut/fill operations.
…by incorporating demolition waste (inorganic).
…by incorporating tree debris (organic).
Case Study
Cator Park is a new 8-hectare park on the site of a 70s-era suburban public housing complex (council estate). The last of the concrete brutalist buildings were demolished in 2013 as a part of urban renewal (regeneration). HTA Design used 30,000 cubic meters of construction and demolition debris to make landforms. They were thus able to limit emissions involved in off hauling to a C&D landfill. In total 98% of the rubble is being recycled or reused on site.
