__} Recycling of oyster shell waste in cement-based materials S. Siddique!, A. Nagi’, JG. Jang” PostDoctoral Fellow, Division of Architecture and Urban Design, Institute of Urban Science. Incheon National University, 119 Academy-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, 22012, Republic of Korea. Email: salmansiddique@inu.ac.kr °Ph.D Student, Division of Architecture and Urban Design, Institute of Urban Science, Incheon National University, 119 Academy-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, 22012, Republic of Korea. Email: aliravian@inu.ac.kr Assistant Professor, Division of Architecture and Urban Design, Institute of Urban Science, Incheon National University, 119 Academy-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, 22012, Republic of Korea. Email: ‘jangjg@inu.ac kr ABSTRACT Sustainable development is crucial to minimize waste and promote recycling technologies along with by- product exchanges within different industrial sectors. The construction industry in the past few decades has incorporated various technologies and alternative materials to curb its high carbon footprint. Among such, valorisation of waste products is a promising green technology which utilizes wide variety of waste and by- products from different industries to produce sustainable binder for application in construction and building materials. In recent days alternative forms of ordinary Portland cement such as high volume slag cement (HVSC) which contain more than 60% content of ground granulated blast furnace slag and alkali-activated binders which are designed by using a single or blend of different mineral materials to provide desirable engineering performance are being studied. The resulting binder material can provide improved engineering/durability properties and aid in the consumption of various wastes of industries. However, these alternative binders have some limitations as conventional alkali-activation process involves reaction between concentrated aqueous solution and solid aluminosilicate precursor, that is, two parts followed by addition of water and HVSC suffers from low carly age strength. These limitations often lead to some shortcomings as the concentrated aqueous solutions in alkali activation are viscous, corrosive and less practical to handle, On the other hand, HVSC significantly affects the construction time frame. To counter these impracticalities of handling two part alkali-activation and HVSC, study has been carried out to understand the potential of using calcined oyster shell waste for the development of one part geopolymers “just add water”, similar to OPC and as additive in OPC and HSC [1-2]. In one part, dry solid mixture of aluminosilicate precursor and solid alkali-activator are mixed together in addition to water. For OPC and HVSC based mixes the calcined powder form of oyster shell waste is used as additive. The waste oyster shell in the study were procured from southern coast of South Korea where it’s improper dumping have created serious social, environmental and health hazards due to microbial decomposition. Therefore, this work reviews the state-of-the-art studies conducted by the authors on development of calcined oyster shell containing cement-based materials highlighting the aspect of sustainable building materials along with improved engineering properties. Keywords: Waste valorisation; Shell waste; Calcination; Alternative binder; Activator References: I, Seo, J.H., Park, S.M., Yang, B.J., Jang, J.G. (2019), “Calcined oyster shell powder as an expansive additive in cement mortar”, Materials, Vol. 12, Issue 8, 1322. 2. Nagi, A., Siddique, S., Kim, H., Jang, J.G. (2019). “Examining the potential of calcined oyster shell waste as additive in high volume slag cement”, Construction and Building Materials, Article Accepted for Publication.