One of the big problems of demolition is pollution and the waste it generates. Concerned about this problem, a Swedish student at the Umeå Institute of Design, created ERO Concrete Recycling Robot, a cement recycling robot, which allows a use of the component materials.
Omer Hciomeroglu's ERO Concrete Recycling Robot project was distinguished with the International Design Excellene Award 2013 (IDEA), in the students category.
The process of demolishing buildings requires heavy machinery that consumes large amounts of energy for the destruction of structures, in addition to the water that is needed to prevent the dispersion of dust. The debris is then moved to recycling plants where other machines separate, shred and melt the materials for reuse.
This intelligent robot is located at strategic points in the building to study the best way to dismantle concrete structures without generating dust or waste.
The ERO Concrete Recycling Robot has two modalities, spraying and intelligent deconstruction, which allows to separate the concrete into the different elements and recover them for reuse.
The tasks of the cement recycling robot include the deconstruction, suction and separation of the cement, for which it uses a jet of pressurized water, which is recycled to use it again. Clean cement is sent to prefabricated element stations where it is reused. The irons of the cement reinforcement are cleaned and cut for reuse in other constructions.
