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Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 19-12-2018
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 19-12-2017
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Date: 10-2015
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Date: 2015
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Date: 10-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-07-2022
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X211029446
Abstract: Construction and demolition activities generate huge quantities of waste with substantial impacts on environment. This mini-review article covers the literatures relating to construction and demolition waste management practice in Australia. The Scopus search engine was used in literature search and 26 journal articles relating to construction and demolition waste management in Australia were targeted for analysis. Additionally, various government acts, regulations, policies, and strategy documents were collected and analyzed. This review indicated that the inconsistencies in legislation and landfill levies across states and territories contributed to the cross-jurisdiction waste movement. Given the stakeholders’ attitude and project life cycle, this review reported that the design phase had the greatest potential to minimize waste and that the role of designers had been highlighted in various empirical studies. This review provides practitioners and academics with an understanding of the current construction and demolition waste management research in Australia and recommends directions for future research.
Publisher: College Publishing
Date: 04-2013
DOI: 10.3992/JGB.8.2.133
Abstract: The lean production philosophy was developed in the automobile industry and put into practice in the manufacturing industry to reduce waste, inventory and improve productivity. The lean concept has recently been introduced to the manufacturing industry to meet the challenge of sustainable development. However, it seems that the concept of sustainable development was defined too broadly for the manufacturers to guide their preferred decisions and behaviours. This research aims to narrow down the concept of sustainable development and focus on the carbon emissions that can be reduced by applying the lean concept in the precast concrete factories. The results demonstrate that the lean production philosophy can help precasters to reduce the level of carbon emissions, in terms of reducing waste and eliminating unnecessary energy consumption in multi-handling, multi-delivery, maintaining inventory and other non-value adding activities, in line with its concentration on eliminating non-value adding processes. An amount of 5.80% carbon emissions can be reduced in the production process for a specific type of precast concrete column. The lean benchmarking process provided in this study is helpful for the precasters to monitor the carbon efficiency in the precast concrete factories. In addition, the analysis provides good practice guidance when precasters are trying to reduce carbon emissions to meet guidelines from regulatory authorities.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 21-11-2016
DOI: 10.1108/SASBE-07-2016-0015
Abstract: The increasing need for sustainability-literate construction professionals has prompted higher education institutions to incorporate a sustainability agenda education into their construction courses. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the sustainability knowledge embedded into a quantity surveying (QS) undergraduate course. Using the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) as a case study, analysis of sustainability knowledge embedded into the QS course is conducted by examining the content of QS course structure, unit aims, learning outcomes, assessment framework and weekly lecture and tutorial materials. The results show that the “incorporation approach”, i.e. the practice of incorporating the sustainability themes into existing relevant subjects, is mainly used in delivering the sustainability knowledge to the QS students. Additionally, it is found that in its QS course, QUT has covered all aspects of sustainability comprehensively from an environmental viewpoint and with regard, to economic, social and governance aspects. This research also proposes recommendations for further improvement of the sustainability education in the QUT QS course and beyond. This study revealed the current practices and approaches of incorporating sustainability knowledge into QS education programme and addressed the knowledge requirements of future sustainability literate QS professionals.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 18-06-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2014
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Date: 10-2017
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-09-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2015
Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC
Date: 05-2019
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