Bosch-Sijtsema, P and Buser, M (2017) Construction and demolition waste management on the building site: A literature review. In: Chan, P W and Neilson, C J (eds.) Proceedings of 33rd Annual ARCOM Conference, 4-6 September 2017, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK.
Abstract
The construction industry is under increasing pressure to reduce costs and improve environment quality. The construction and demolition waste management (CDWM) is a serious contender to achieve these two goals. Countries have provided legislation and professional associations and large companies have issued rules and guides lines to efficiently dismantle and organize the evacuation of these materials, especially addressing hazardous waste. However, accounts from the building sites reveal that these rules and models may be overlooked during the actual construction phase. The organization of the site with multiple sub-contractors, the lack of training of the employees or long delaying before the delivery of building permit may interfere and disturb the careful planning. Participating in a three years' interdisciplinary research gathering both practitioners and academics about CDWM on site in Sweden, we present here the results of our literature review. Our goal is to identify and document the actual topics and debates related to CDWM, avoid to repeat already existing results and uncover less researched issues or topics. To do so we built on systematic literature review on CDWM. Our initial search had 628 articles on CDW and CDW management. Through multiple selection procedures, we ended up with 147 articles published in 30 scientific journals listed on Web of Science and Scopus since 2012. We focus on articles referring directly to the building site as well as the management of CDW. We systematically organize the review according to the following criteria: topic, discipline, contribution, method, theory, and audience.The preliminary results show a large production of materials analyses, LCA assessment and performance, optimization of process models and economic comparison. The actual practices on the building site and the related management issues however, are largely ignored by this academic production justifying that it may be worth looking beyond the garbage can.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | building site, construction and demolition waste management, work organisation, literature review |
| Index terms: | systematic literature review, garbage, science, construction industry, legislation, interdisciplinary research, Sweden, waste management, construction phase, journal, literature review, building site, practitioner, management issue, construction and demolition, sub-contractor |
| Subjects: | industry analysis, waste management, legal systems, research evaluation and metrics, Geography, research dissemination and communication, research methods, specialized education, project delivery, data analysis and analytics, management, practitioner, site and location studies |
| Topics: | Project Management, Research Practice, Education, Legal Issues, Roles and Professions, Sustainability, Geographical Context, Business Strategy |
| Descriptive scope: | 5 PCTEA |
N.B. Descriptive scope is a count of how many of the five facets of empirical research are indicated by the words used in title, abstract and keywords. It is not intended as a judgement on the research; merely a count of the kind of word we would expect to indicate Phenomenon, Concepts, Theoretical framing, Empirical techniques, Analytical techniques. If all five are present, then a code of “5 PCTEA” will indicate this. If you feel the coding for this record is questionable, we welcome discussion around the terms we matched or the way we categorized them. The facet you would expect may not be coded, or a facet may be coded inappropriately. This can also bear on a larger question, of which facets should be treated as defining in construction management research. Please get in touch, and we will look at it. More details here