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Towards the decarbonation of construction activities:
September 2023
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Towards the decarbonation of construction activities:
September 2023
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Towards the decarbonation of construction activities:
September 2023
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Montreal’s Darwin bridge construction project uses recycled glass
By Brayden Jagger Haines Global News
Posted October 21, 2020 1:28 pm
Recycled glass is the latest ingredient in the Darwin bridge construction project on Nuns’ Island in Montreal.
An estimated 70,000 recycled glass bottles were crushed into a fine power and mixed into the concrete.
According to the City of Montreal, the structure is the first of its kind in the world.
This method of construction has been used before in Montreal on city sidewalks and...Read more
The internationally recognized SAQ Chair
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Recently, just a few days after the Darwin bridges were opened to traffic, the City of Montreal, the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) and the SAQ Chair in valorization...Read more
The internationally recognized SAQ Chair
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Recently, just a few days after the Darwin bridges were opened to traffic, the City of Montreal, the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) and the SAQ Chair in valorization...Read more
Two bridges incorporating recovered glass receive international awards
Two new bridges incorporating glass recovered from the equivalent of 70,000 bottles of wine: research and innovation rewarded internationally...Read more
5-year investment in the SAQ Chair in glass valorization
The SAQ Chair dedicated to the valorization of glass in materials, directed by Arezki Tagnit-Hamou, professor at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sherbrooke (UdeS), can count on the enthusiasm and participation of its partners to continue its work related to the integration of...Read more
A bridge incorporating glass powder in Montreal: Arezki Tagnit-Hamou
Radio-Canada, the 15-18
Aired on October 22, 2021
An international award for bridges made from recycled glass with the UdeS
Radio-Canada
Aired on October 19, 2021
Postdoctoral fellowship to develop innovative concretes
Published on May 11, 2021
The 2021-2022 postdoctoral research scholarship competition from the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT) recently rewarded Ousmane Ahmat Hisseine, postdoctoral fellow within the Concrete Infrastructure Research Center (CRIB). Currently under ...Read more
Laval in turn invests in the valorization of glass
Published on August 3, 2021
This partnership with the University of Sherbrooke represents a contribution of $100,000 spread over five years. It is part of the desire of the City's Engineering Department to modify its technical specifications in order to include the use of ...Read more
When the genie comes out of the bottle
Published on April 14, 2021
What do the Darwin Bridge on L’Île-des-Sœurs, around fifty floors of SAQ branches and several km of sidewalks in Montreal and other cities in Quebec have in common? ...Read more
GLASS POWDER CEMENT
Discovery
ici.radio-canada.ca
Broadcast on April 11, 2021
The production of cement, used in concrete, has an enormous environmental impact. A Quebec researcher is banking on glass powder to make it greener...Regrade
Genius for the planet:
New concrete recipes
Media knowledge
Aired on October 27, 2020
Concrete is one of the most used construction materials in the world. But one of its components, cement, is an environmental disaster. We must therefore find new concrete recipes...Regrade
Two bridges built in Montreal with 70,000 bottles of wine recovered
QMI Agency
September 8, 2020
The City of Montreal and the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) announced the construction of two concrete bridges containing 10% finely crushed recovered glass. The Darwin bridges, located on Boulevard de L'Île-des-Sœurs, will give a second life to some 70,000 bottles of wine, in addition to generating a saving of 40,000 kg of cement...Read more
FROM BOTTLE TO CONCRETE
plus.lapresse.ca
Published on September 8, 2020
The idea is not new, but its use has just reached a new stage: used for around ten years in the manufacture of sidewalk slabs, concrete containing crushed glass powder will soon be used for the first time. times in the construction of a bridge. And it will be erected in Montreal. With its concrete molded in curved lines, the new bridge that the team of engineer Étienne Cantin Bellemarre will soon build will not only be beautiful, but also green. Or rather, it will be “glass”..Read more
UdeS behind a bridge project incorporating recovered glass |
Interview with Professor William Wilson
Aired on September 8, 2020Listen to Audio
Concrete bridges incorporating recovered glass built with UdeS
ici.radio-canada.ca
Broadcast on September 8, 2020
Soon bridges built with crushed glass in Montreal
September 8, 2020
The City of Montreal and the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) announced the construction of two concrete bridges containing 10% finely crushed recovered glass. The Darwin bridges, located on Boulevard de L'Île-des-Sœurs, will give a second life to some 70,000 bottles of wine, in addition to generating a saving of 40,000 kg of cement...Read more
Montreal: soon bridges built with crushed glass
September 8, 2020
“The use of glass powder to replace cement in concrete increases the durability and strength of concrete, in addition to reducing its environmental footprint,” the SAQ said in a press release on Tuesday. “The use glass powder recovered from a road bridge is a breakthrough that excites us enormously,” said Marie-Hélène Lagacé, vice-president at the SAQ....Read more
Nuns’ Island: bridges made with recycled alcohol bottles
September 8, 2020
Each structure will incorporate a quantity of 10% of glass powder. This material comes from alcohol bottles found at the SAQ, but also from jars used to contain foods such as pickles or jam. Reduced to a very fine powder, these containers then become a substitute for the cement used in most known constructions. Indiscernible to the naked eye, the material has enormous advantages...Read more
World first: wine bottles in bridge construction
September 8, 2020
Using glass powder to replace cement in concrete increases the durability and strength of concrete, in addition to reducing its environmental footprint. Once erected, the bridges will be instrumented and closely monitored by the University of Sherbrooke and the City of Montreal in order to evaluate the performance of the concrete in the years to come. Although this is a world first in bridge construction...Read more
Blue planet, green ideas: from bottle to concrete
September 8, 2020
With its concrete molded in curved lines, the new bridge that the team of engineer Étienne Cantin Bellemarre will soon build will not only be beautiful, but also green. Or rather, it will be “glass”. The project manager at the City of Montreal is very proud of the project that is occupying him at the moment...Read more
Giving glass a second life
ici.radio-canada.ca
Published on February 8, 2019
While the recycling sector – both paper and glass – is in crisis, Quebec is still wondering what to do with all the glass that is not reused. Unlike what is done in two of its neighbors, Ontario and New Brunswick, the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) has not yet implemented a deposit for bottles of wine and other alcohol. But is the latter the solution to this undervaluation of glass in Quebec?...Read more
Your waste, my wealth
ici.tou.tv
October 19, 2019
More and more people in Quebec are adopting the circular economy model. A bold economic model, which includes the environment at the heart of its business model and proves beneficial as much for the company and the consumer as for the entire planet. In the company of Karine Awashish, Atikamekw intrigued by this way of...Read more
Moving from waste to sustainable building material
Published on November 05, 2018
It may seem impossible, but they did it. Arezki Tagnit-Hamou, director of the Concrete Infrastructure Research Center at the University of Sherbrooke, and his team have succeeded in giving a second life to wine bottles. Cunning? Once reduced to glass powder, they are integrated into the composition of the cement used for...Read more
Believe above all in sustainable development
Published on September 03, 2018
When he arrived in Sherbrooke in the early 90s, sustainable development was not a very common concept in the research and development of new concretes. However, it is an element that motivated Dr. Arezki Tagnit-Hamou in his research at the University of Sherbrooke. The professor of civil engineering and director of the...Read more
Sherbrooke genius transforms wine bottles into sidewalks
Radio-Canada
Published on July 16, 2018
Glass powder in the sidewalks: this is one of the solutions found to prevent hundreds of thousands of wine bottles from ending up in the landfill. This year, in Montreal, eight sections of sidewalk will be built with concrete made from this material. And there is genius from the University of Sherbrooke behind this project...Read more
Capsule on glass powder, an innovation in selective collection
www.eeq.ca
August 27, 2015
The use of recycled glass has several environmental, economic and technical advantages. Indeed, in addition to contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gases by avoiding, for example, the extraction of a raw material, its use...Read more
Innovative cementitious materials
www.usherbrooke.ca
March 20, 2015
Professor Arezki Tagnit-Hamou from the Department of Civil Engineering develops innovative cementitious materials. The holder of the SAQ Chair on the valorization of glass in materials...Read more
Sidewalks with your empty bottles to reduce greenhouse gases
ici.radio-canada.ca
September 23, 2014
It's not just world leaders meeting in New York who are trying to save the planet from global warming. Quebec researchers have found an original way to reduce greenhouse gases: use less cement in concrete by replacing it with glass powder, produced with your...Read more
Concrete and glass powder:
a Quebec innovation
www.voirvert.ca
June 17, 2014
To highlight the commissioning of the first glass micronization plant in North America, Tricentris, Équiterre and the Maison du développement durable brought together a panel of experts to explain the environmental, economic and technological aspects of manufacturing glass. glass powder and its use as ...Read more
A new life for glass
Research and innovation at Tricentris
Published on September 14, 2010
Gone are the days when sorting centers across Quebec had to pay to have their mass of glass recycled. Thanks to Quebec genius and the involvement of the Tricentris sorting center, the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) and the University of Sherbrooke, glass has just found a new use. After several months and years of research, professor and teacher in the civil engineering department of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sherbrooke Arezki Tagnit Hamou has developed a technology allowing ...Read more
A new outlet for glass residue
Published on September 9, 2010
Glass, unloved among recoverable materials, will finally have a new life in Quebec. Tricentris, a non-profit organization operating three sorting centers, will use technology developed by Professor Arezki Tagnit-Hamou of the University of Sherbrooke. A factory will be created in Lachute to manufacture glass powder, which can then be used to produce glass powder....Read more
