Low Impact Construction Materials and Technologies to Increase Resiliency to Disasters and Recovery of Materials Generated from these Incidents

Low impact construction materials should be more durable, resilient, and safe for human health and the environment and can be appropriate for use in either buildings, roads, or bridges. Innovative construction techniques should require comparable times to construct a building, road, or a bridge, and impose comparable construction costs as the use of traditional techniques, while also increasing the resiliency of buildings and other structures to natural disasters. Innovative technologies should provide fast and inexpensive ways to segregate and decontaminate debris streams created in the disaster aftermath, to enable increased recovery of usable materials.