GOAL Project

The objective of GOAL project is to transform the glass generated in all municipalities from waste to secondary raw material for the production of innovative binders and hence, of marketable pre-casted building materials, with high compressive strength and application in the construction industry. Towards this end, the scope of the GOAL project will be to make all the necessary laboratory preliminary activities for producing innovative building materials from glass, based on the innovative technology of geopolymerisation. The GOAL project will: • Reduce resource consumption, by utilising secondary raw materials, and by substituting natural resources • Reduce environmental impact, by reducing the land-footprint of a series of Municipalities in Cyprus, by eliminating a source of airborne dust, and by indirectly reducing a source of CO2, since concrete production can be substituted by a new geopolymer binder product • Encourage the use of pre-casted building materials with high added value, by proposing new building materials that are known to have improved mechanical properties in contrast to Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) The GOAL project is funded under the Research Promotion Foundation - RESTART 2016 - 2020 PROGRAMMES (CONCEPT/0618/015).