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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 33rd Annual ARCOM Conference, 4-6 September 2017, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 269–278.

  • Type: Conference Proceedings
  • Keywords: Building site, construction and demolition waste management, work organisation, literature review
  • ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9955463-1-8
  • URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/a290a1bf6f103b0f7e549c1ddf0f6378.pdf
  • 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.