Construction waste generation estimates of institutional building projects: Leveraging waste hauling tickets

Bakchan, Amal; Faust, Kasey M.

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2019.02.024

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“…Among MFA studies, models are commonly used with input data taken from existing literature rather than measured directly in the field. Select studies from literature that have combined LCA and MFA methods with industry data (Haselbach and Bruner, 2006;Bilec et al, 2010;Quale et al, 2012;Bovea and Powell, 2016;Bakchan and Faust, 2019;Lu et al, 2019) and LCA and LEED data (Aktas et al, 2017;Jun and Cheng, 2017;Meneghelli, 2018;Ingrao et al, 2019;Illankoon and Lu, 2020) have been more robust and reliable due to measurement in industry.…”

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Can Public Construction and Demolition Data Describe Trends in Building Material Recycling? Observations From Philadelphia

Marcellus-Zamora

Gallagher

Spatari

2020

Front. Built Environ.

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There is a significant amount of waste generated during construction and demolition (C&D) activities, but few data to understand the sources, age, spatial origin, and its fate following entry into the waste management system. With few public records that track C&D waste flows, we turned to industry and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) to quantify C&D data and meta-data using material flow analysis (MFA). LEED databases are not normally used to build life cycle inventories or material flow accounts because they do not house sufficiently detailed data. We propose using the geo-referenced data on reused C&D waste in LEED databases to source parameters needed to build MFA models that support a circular building materials economy. By quantifying the change in C&D waste flow over years 2007-2017 and the diversion of materials from landfills from buildings in the United States City of Philadelphia, we found that, on average, 81% of total incoming waste was diverted from landfill and recycled into secondary materials markets. From LEED spatial data, we found that 77% of buildings sampled diverted C&D waste activities and installed building materials with recycled content. Although these findings describe material reuse metrics from different system boundaries in the built environment that cannot be statistically validated, they provide complementary data to describe C&D recycling performance benchmarks and incentive for future data collection to study and track trends in building material reuse. This case study highlights observations of C&D recovery and reuse from two separate but related operations, which could suggest that policies that incentivize C&D material reuse could promote a circular flow of building materials.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Can Public Construction and Demolition Data Describe Trends in Building Material Recycling? Observations From Philadelphia

Marcellus-Zamora

Gallagher

Spatari

2020

Front. Built Environ.

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“…In this context, waste refers to any object, material, substance, or element resulting from the consumption or use of a good in domestic, industrial, commercial, institutional, or service activities, that is abandoned or rejected, but that is susceptible to the use or transformation of a new good, with economic value or final disposal [60,61]. Therefore, in a CE, waste enters the production cycle again as secondary raw material and its use is critical as the main source of reliable raw material [62,63].…”

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Effects of Circular Economy Policies on the Environment and Sustainable Growth: Worldwide Research

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The challenge of transitioning from a linear to a circular economy model is still ongoing and requires the development and application of new knowledge, leading to innovative, technological, and sustainable processes, products, and services. The evolution of global research on this topic from 2004 to 2019 was studied in this work. For this purpose, a bibliometric analysis of 1366 articles was applied, producing results on the scientific productivity of the driving agents that most contribute to this theme. The findings show a growing interest, especially in the last four years, in the study of circular economy (CE) policies on the environment. The main subject area that articles address is environmental science. Five research lines have been identified, which mainly study the efficient management of energy resources and the economic factors that make the CE model possible: Environmental pollution and agricultural activity; waste management to avoid a negative environmental impact; improvement of the environmental impact through ecological products; the product life cycle, and the consequences of climate change. The implementation of CE policies will contribute to making economies less dependent and unprotected and more competitive. Global research has exhibited an upward trend during the period analyzed and has grown exponentially since 2015, coinciding with the publication of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda.

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“…Research and development focused on using construction and demolition waste and energy by-products in civil engineering is currently seeing a rapid surge [7,18].…”

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“…(see Table 1). In order to find potential uses for these, their properties and criteria must be specified [7,18].…”

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“…A study by the European Commission [14] states that Europe currently lacks the necessary recycling infrastructure to sustain an increase in construction waste recycling to its maximum. Bakchan and Faust [18] declare in their study that it should also be noted that the building industry has the potential to re-use waste from other industries. Later sections of this paper describe a new multi criteria calculation that explores possibilities of the re-use of certain kinds of waste, mainly construction and demolition waste and energy by-products, which are being produced in large quantities (see Table 1).…”

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Study of Possibilities of Using Special Types of Building and Demolition Waste in Civil Engineering

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Dufek

Michalčíková

et al. 2020

Period. Polytech. Civil Eng.

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Construction and demolition waste makes up a substantial part of all waste produced in Europe. Its impact on the environment may be relatively small, but it exists in large amounts and holds many options of re-use. This is why it remains a frequently discussed topic of European policy. As part of circular economy, the European Commission has already proposed new goals and strategies for existing types of waste. However, they are not entirely clear on the usage of new kinds of building and demolition waste, as they are yet to be specified by existing legislation. This paper discusses new kinds of building and demolition waste and the basic principles (new technology) of their use. The possibilities of utilizing new kinds of waste are based on a multicriteria optimization calculation, specifying each material and proposing ways of its further use. Recent findings can expand the choice of new uses of construction and demolition waste and reduce their impact on the environment (less waste, better properties and more effective processing, reducing transportation needs, maximizing re-use and recycling).

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Construction waste generation estimates of institutional building projects: Leveraging waste hauling tickets

Cited by 49 publications

References 30 publications

Can Public Construction and Demolition Data Describe Trends in Building Material Recycling? Observations From Philadelphia

Can Public Construction and Demolition Data Describe Trends in Building Material Recycling? Observations From Philadelphia

Effects of Circular Economy Policies on the Environment and Sustainable Growth: Worldwide Research

Study of Possibilities of Using Special Types of Building and Demolition Waste in Civil Engineering

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