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An Investigation of Waste Reduction Measures Employed in Construction Industry: Case of Shenzhen

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A vast amount of construction and demolition waste (C&D Waste) has been produced over the past decades, and the healthy and environmental issues caused by C&D Waste gradually aroused people’s attention. Although many studies on C&D Waste management has been conducted and various measures to reduce C&D Waste generation has been proposed, little attention has been paid to assessing the effectiveness of those measures. Therefore, this paper conducted a questionnaire survey to investigate practical waste reduction measures and involved critical factors. The results show that “Design for disassemble” and “use of recycled materials, such as metal scaffolding, metal formworks” are the most popular C&D Waste reduction measures in design stage and construction stage respectively.

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This work was supported by the Technology Research and Development Program of Shenzhen (grant number JCYJ20160520173631894).

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  1. School of Civil Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

    Y. Gao, J. Y. Wang, H. Y. Wu & X. X. Xu

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  1. Department of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    K. W. Chau

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    Isabelle Y.S. Chan

  3. Department of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Weisheng Lu

  4. Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Gao, Y., Wang, J.Y., Wu, H.Y., Xu, X.X. (2018). An Investigation of Waste Reduction Measures Employed in Construction Industry: Case of Shenzhen. In: Chau, K., Chan, I., Lu, W., Webster, C. (eds) Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6190-5_21

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