Construction and demolition waste management in Australia: A mini-review

Zhao, Xianbo; Webber, Ronald; Kalutara, Pushpitha; Browne, Wesley R.; Pienaar, Josua

doi:10.1177/0734242x211029446

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“…Within the literature that regard CSR as a key aspect in corporate management activities (Bevan and Yung, 2015), many studies indicated that a firm's CSR practice can motivate individuals to engage in prosocial and proenvironmental behaviors (Mantovani et al, 2017;Romani and Grappi, 2014). Actually, people intend to engage in environmentrelated decision-making due to their own interests as well as the concerns for the local and the whole environmental system (Zhang et al, 2018;Zhang et al, 2017;Zhao et al, 2021). Thus, public participation in WIP projects can be considered a kind of proenvironmental behavior.…”

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How perceived corporate social responsibility and public knowledge affect public participation intention: evidence from Chinese waste incineration power projects

Wan

Zhang

Peng

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PurposePublic participation is essential for mitigating local resistance faced by the environmentally stigmatized facilities. The purpose of this study is to investigate public participation intention in the decision-making of waste incineration power (WIP) projects by examining the role of perceived corporate social responsibility (PCSR) and public knowledge (PK) based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB).Design/methodology/approachA theoretical model correlating PCSR with public participation intention was developed by using the constructs of TPB as the mediators and PK as the moderator. Drawing on structural equation modeling (SEM), the data collected from 485 local residents of the WIP projects in Jiangsu, China were analyzed to test the model.FindingsCompanies' CSR practice went through public attitude, subjective norm and personal norm as mediating steps towards promoting participation intention. PK positively moderated the indirect relationships between PCSR and participation intention. Moreover, attitude, subjective norm and personal norm were found to have a positive effect on participation intention.Originality/valueThis study advances the understanding of public participation intention and enriches the literature relating to CSR and TPB involved in infrastructure development. In order to improve public participation intention, companies should take strategic social responsibility actions and present the benefits and moral values of the activities to the public, and as well make effort to diffuse WIP-related knowledge through interactive activities with the public. Authorities should establish social and personal value systems that praise public participation and improve their expectations of participation outcomes.

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How perceived corporate social responsibility and public knowledge affect public participation intention: evidence from Chinese waste incineration power projects

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“…Similarly, one recent study shows that, about 8.7 gigatons, which is about 10% of the world emission, of carbon dioxide is from construction sector [7]. Other study done by Zhao et al [8] also pointed out that, in 2019 the total waste produced from demolition and construction in China alone accounts about 2300 million tones became the largest construction and demolition waste producer in the world. ese all the above study shows that construction sector has greater contribution on environmental pollution e other drawback of cement-based construction is crack formation.…”

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Bacterial Performance in Crack Healing and its Role in Creating Sustainable Construction

Alemu

Demiss

Korsa

2022

International Journal of Microbiology

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Building practices began with human civilization. Cement is the most commonly used building construction material throughout the world. These traditional building materials have their own environmental impact during production, transportation, and construction, but also have limitations on building quality and cost. Biological construction materials are currently emerging technology to combat emissions from the construction sector. Different civil and biotechnology researchers have turned to microorganisms for the production of bio construction materials that are environmentally friendly, socially acceptable, and economically feasible but can also produce high strength. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-Ray diffraction (XRD) are the most characterization methods used to observe and ensure the production of calcite precipitate as bacterial concrete. As compared to conventional concrete, bacterial concrete was greater by 35.15% in compressive strength, 24.32% in average tensile strength, and 17.24% in average flexural strength, and it was 4 times lower in water absorption and 8 times lower in acid resistivity than conventional concrete. Genetic engineering has great potential to further enhance the mechanical strength of bacterial concrete for use in crack repairs in existing buildings.

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“…It is known that the construction industry is one of the sectors that generates more waste in the world, both in volume and in weight [ 4 , 5 ]. According to Kaza et al [ 6 ], the world average generation of construction and demolition waste (CDW), is 1.68 kg/capita/day, which means a world production of about 4.8 billion Mg/year, which is more than the 3 billion Mg/year estimated by Akhtar and Sarmah [ 7 ].…”

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Recycling of crushed concrete and steel slag in drainage structures of geotechnical works and road pavements

Roque

Silva

Almeida

2022

J Mater Cycles Waste Manag

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A crushed concrete aggregate, processed from construction and demolition waste and a siderurgical aggregate, processed from electric arc furnace steel slag, were selected based on their very high availability worldwide and known technical feasibility to be used in construction works. Given the association of their presence to the possibility of reducing the drainage capacity of unbound granular layers of road pavements and drainage structures which they may be associated with, there are studies and regulations that do not recommend their use. The causes that are at the origin of restrictions are mainly the possibility of formation of tufa and recementation phenomena. This behaviour has also hampered their recycling in drainage structures of geotechnical works. Therefore, it was considered that it would be relevant to investigate the drainage capacity of those recycled aggregates, using a leachate produced in a municipal solid waste landfill and tap water. To reference their behaviour, two natural aggregates, a basalt and a limestone, were also studied under identical test conditions. The results obtained showed no reduction in the drainage capacity of the recycled aggregates, similarly to what was observed with the natural aggregates. The possibility of building drainage structures with the tested aggregates is verified.

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Construction and demolition waste management in Australia: A mini-review

Cited by 35 publications

References 93 publications

How perceived corporate social responsibility and public knowledge affect public participation intention: evidence from Chinese waste incineration power projects

How perceived corporate social responsibility and public knowledge affect public participation intention: evidence from Chinese waste incineration power projects

Bacterial Performance in Crack Healing and its Role in Creating Sustainable Construction

Recycling of crushed concrete and steel slag in drainage structures of geotechnical works and road pavements

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