TY - GEN
T1 - Best practices for diverting demolition waste from landfill
T2 - 36th Annual Conference on Association of Researchers in Construction Management, ARCOM 2020
AU - Wijewickrama, M. K.C.S.
AU - Chileshe, Nicholas
AU - Rameezdeen, Raufdeen
AU - Ochoa, J. Jorge
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Association of Researchers in Construction Management.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Demolition Waste (DW) tremendously contributes to the global solid waste production with a major portion destined to landfills. The DW should divert from landfill to improve the use of natural resources while reducing the adverse environmental impacts of using many land resources for waste landfilling. The development of effective processes to reuse and recycle is important to reduce landfilled waste. Thus, changing the traditional linear supply chain into a circular arrangement is a value-adding mechanism and herein, the notion of 'Reverse Logistics Supply Chain (RLSC)' has captured the attention of the construction industry. With align to this, the purpose of this paper is twofold. First, a systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted to identify the best practices for diverting DW from landfill to promote RLSC in the construction industry. Second, it outlines the next line of research which will assist future researchers to further improve the domain under study. The SLR was conducted using 81 articles available in six search systems from 2000 to 2019. The study found the best practices during pre-dismantling, dismantling and on-site operations and material recovery phases. These best practices should initiate from the design and planning phases of the project delivery process. The value of the study is to provide the industry practitioners with the best practices to reduce the amount of waste reaching the landfill. Furthermore, the study acknowledges the practitioners the corrective measures for impediments which challenge the execution of best practices in the practical context.
AB - Demolition Waste (DW) tremendously contributes to the global solid waste production with a major portion destined to landfills. The DW should divert from landfill to improve the use of natural resources while reducing the adverse environmental impacts of using many land resources for waste landfilling. The development of effective processes to reuse and recycle is important to reduce landfilled waste. Thus, changing the traditional linear supply chain into a circular arrangement is a value-adding mechanism and herein, the notion of 'Reverse Logistics Supply Chain (RLSC)' has captured the attention of the construction industry. With align to this, the purpose of this paper is twofold. First, a systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted to identify the best practices for diverting DW from landfill to promote RLSC in the construction industry. Second, it outlines the next line of research which will assist future researchers to further improve the domain under study. The SLR was conducted using 81 articles available in six search systems from 2000 to 2019. The study found the best practices during pre-dismantling, dismantling and on-site operations and material recovery phases. These best practices should initiate from the design and planning phases of the project delivery process. The value of the study is to provide the industry practitioners with the best practices to reduce the amount of waste reaching the landfill. Furthermore, the study acknowledges the practitioners the corrective measures for impediments which challenge the execution of best practices in the practical context.
KW - Demolition waste
KW - Landfill
KW - Reverse logistics supply chain
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85096988831
T3 - ARCOM 2020 - Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 36th Annual Conference 2020 - Proceedings
SP - 675
EP - 684
BT - ARCOM 2020 - Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 36th Annual Conference 2020 - Proceedings
A2 - Scott, Lloyd
A2 - Neilson, Christopher J.
PB - Association of Researchers in Construction Management
Y2 - 7 September 2020 through 8 September 2020
ER -