The global construction boom is continuing and will not decrease significantly in the future. climate change is forcing new constructions. Old constructions have to be replaced. Most of the world's major sites are on the coasts, and constructive coastal protection will buy these sites some more time, but the major sites will also have to change in terms of construction technology. Concrete as a building material is needed for this transformation.
Sand as part of this needed concrete has become a big problem. The gigantic demand leads to a lucrative trade business worldwide, which permanently destroys the nature of the coasts and rivers.
Several years ago we pointed out that with the UHPC technology it is easily possible to replace a very large proportion with recycled sand. Only these recycling plants for construction waste are rarer to find worldwide than diamonds. And yet, the expansion would be an extremely lucrative business, also for investors.
The fastest way to drastically reduce the current demand for sand is to use desert sand. For several years now, it has been possible to easily produce concrete from desert sand that is much stronger and easier to handle than standard concrete. If one were to calculate the current worldwide sand consumption as a standard, the desert sand of the Sahara would last about 100,000 years.
Even if the entire global construction industry still finds it extremely difficult to use desert sand, which there is actually no reason to do, development will force them to do so. For investors who become active now, this will be a gigantic business in a few years.
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