Sustainable Civil Engineering and Construction Waste Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2023) | Viewed by 2432
Special Issue Editor
Interests: application of quantitative methods; machine learning; statistics and stochastic simulations; construction and waste management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The generation of waste is a global problem in need of sustainable solutions. In the EU alone, 2.5 billion tons (2016 numbers) of waste is generated every year. Looking at the construction industry in particular, the generated waste in the EU constitutes 924 million tons, corresponding to 36% of all generated waste. The issue is exacerbated by the fact that the yearly generated construction waste keeps increasing.
To reduce the environmental load of the construction industry, resource consumption and waste management practices need to be improved, together with solutions to minimise waste and handle, recycle and reuse the generated waste. The focus of this Special Issue is, therefore, the improvement of construction waste management. This will include a focus on the traditional means of managing waste in construction projects, such as techniques for quantifying and predicting waste, methodologies for managing and scheduling waste quantities and behavior, as well as innovative and interdisciplinary procedures for predicting and evaluating waste behavior, such as 3D modelling, and virtual environment technologies. Moreover, it will include a focus on the initiatives aimed at reducing wasted resources and reducing waste in general, as well as reusing waste and developing circular solutions. The Special Issue also focuses on approaches to training and educating participants in the construction industry on how to manage waste, as well as waste behavior.
Relevant submissions to this Special Issue may include, but are not limited to, the following topics within the area of waste management:
- Quantification;
- Forecasting;
- Management practices;
- Disposal systems;
- Reduction;
- Circularity;
- Sustainability;
- Integration of building information modelling in waste management;
- Three-dimensional, virtual, augmented and mixed reality simulation of waste behavior;
- Waste behavior education and training;
- Resource consumption;
- Carbon footprint;
- Pollution;
- Malpractice and opportunism.
Dr. Søren Munch Lindhard
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- waste management
- construction management
- lean construction
- sustainable production
- resource consumption
- circularity
- building information management
