Kunieda, Y (2017) Development of an impact assessment tool for demolition. PhD thesis, University of Bath, UK.
Abstract
Currently in the field of demolition, which generates most of the waste in the construction industry, the treatment of waste largely relies on landfill or degraded recycling, which leads to significant consumption of natural resource and energy and a shortage of landfill site. In order to improve the inefficiency of demolition waste recovery, “to suggest improvements in the environmental impact of the demolition industry in UK” was set as the aim of the present research. After the identification of few opportunities for communication between demolishers and constructers in the current social system, a collaboration support system between these two stakeholders called ‘Demolition Project Mapping' (DPM) system was suggested. In the system, the impact evaluation tool developed in the 4D-CAD software is applied to the demolition project simulation. This tool allows the users to dynamically simulate the impact of project planning which can be designed in the tool. In the pilot study, the simulation result shows the large potential to reduce the impact (e.g. 28% for the cost) by the tool application.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Thesis advisor: | Emmitt, S and Codinhoto, R |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | collaboration; communication; demolition; efficiency; environmental impact; landfill; project planning; recycling; simulation; stakeholders; UK; waste |
| Index terms: | recovery, efficiency, social system, recycling, natural resource, evaluation tool, construction industry, collaboration, mapping, environmental impact, impact assessment, consumption, demolition waste, landfill, project planning |
| Subjects: | social theory, performance management, management, industry analysis, control systems, value management, spatial and geospatial analysis, consumer economics, waste management, environmental impact, evaluation and assessment methods, environmental resource management, operations management |
| Topics: | Organizational Design, Stakeholder Management, Research Practice, Quality Management, Sustainability, Project Management |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
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