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Construction materials and circularity
Secondary materials, reuse and the question of what ends up in the ground beneath a project.
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What goes under the A2 in Limburg: how a construction material became the stakeholder issue of a motorway widening
For the widening of the A2 between Het Vonderen and Kerensheide, Boskalis wants to use hundreds of thousands of tonnes of Beaumix, a material made from washed incinerator bottom ash. On 25 September the Limburg Provincial Council removed the transitional rule that would still have allowed its use in the groundwater protection zone near Roosteren. A report on a project where the debate is not about the route, but about what goes into the ground.
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