Current Status and Future Perspectives of Construction Waste Management: Making the Giant Leap towards a Zero-Waste Future
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2022) | Viewed by 4687
Special Issue Editors
Interests: flooding; sustainability; environmental management; climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies; water resources management; built environment studies and urban pollution
Interests: Building Information Modelling (BIM); sustainable construction; competency-based modelling and construction informatics (the use of digital technologies such as big data analytics; IoT and machine learning in construction)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Of all the industrial sectors, the construction sector generates the largest quantities of waste to landfill (~35% across the globe) and continues to consume a voluminous share of the Earth’s natural resources. Due to its unfavourable impacts on the environment and associated costs, the overall sustainability of the construction sector depends on how well it manages its waste generation. There are opportunities to minimise and/or eliminate waste throughout the project delivery process, including the planning, design, procurement, construction, refurbishment and/or demolition stages of any project. Therefore, there are opportunities available for different professions (clients, designers, material suppliers, product manufacturers, distributors and construction and demolition contractors) to contribute to a cradle-to-cradle philosophy and propagate flows around a circular economy across the construction sector.
The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal SDG#12 seeks to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. Consequently, some national governments have implemented strategies to eliminate avoidable waste of all kinds (including construction waste, from both buildings and infrastructure). Acknowledging that the construction sector has already made some first steps toward improving its environmental credentials, there remains the need to make enormous leaps in its customs and conventions towards sustainable targets before its performance satisfies expectations. As the construction sector is actively embracing and adopting smart designs, smart contracts, smart construction, smart technologies and smart buildings, it is essential that the current construction waste management practices and praxes are reappraised towards a smarter zero-waste future.
We look forward to receiving and reviewing your manuscripts for this Special Issue and discovering your insights into achieving the giant leap the sector must take!
Dr. Colin Booth
Dr. Saheed Ajayi
Dr. Abdul-Majeed Mahamadu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- waste strategies
- waste management
- waste minimisation
- waste hierarchy
- procurement
- legislation
- BIM
- design for deconstruction
- circular economy
- sustainable construction
