Quantification of future availabilities of recovered wood from Austrian residential buildings

In the building demolition sector, building elements are usually tailored to the given building's needs and not constructed for reuse.

“In the building demolition sector, the problem of product design is particularly relevant: building elements are usually tailored to the given building's needs and not constructed for reuse (Kalcher et al., 2017).”

Wood quality, particle size, and moisture content are fundamental physical requirements for cascading.

“Another set of fundamental physical requirements includes wood quality (Höglmeier et al., 2017;Husgafvel et al., 2018;Kalcher et al., 2017;Rettenmaier et al., 2014;Winder and Bobar, 2018), particle size (Höglmeier et al., 2017;Höglmeier et al., 2015a;Husgafvel et al., 2018;Kalcher et al., 2017) and moisture content (Husgafvel et al., 2018;Knauf, 2015;Rettenmaier et al., 2014).”

The presence of chemicals in waste wood is the most prominent factor preventing the reuse or recycling of waste wood.

“the presence of chemicals in waste wood is the most prominent factor in preventing the reuse or recycling of waste wood (Table 2) (e.g., Bergeron, 2014;Kalcher et al., 2017;Suominen et al., 2017;Teuber et al., 2016).”