Raw materials may degrade in storage or become unusable in a product ... usually be shorter than other long-term assets like a building expensed over several years. Raw materials are often ...

Many raw materials are no longer at their original source: they are bound up in new, anthropogenic structures, above all buildings.” It is this concept of “urban mining” that guides the book.

By 2024, it is projected that global sales of temporary storage buildings would total USD 2,935.9 million, driven by a 6.1% ...

construction of a 125,000-sq-ft building; and purchase and installation of raw materials storage, crushing and mixing equipment, kilns, dust collectors, conveyors, and molding, extrusion ...

Despite most of this material ... exploiting raw materials is unsustainable. The alternative is to reuse, repair or repurpose materials already in use. But for this to happen, buildings would ...