TY - GEN
T1 - Environmental impacts of construction activities
T2 - AHFE International Conference on Human Factors, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure, 2018
AU - Musenga, Chanda
AU - Aigbavboa, Clinton
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The construction industry plays a vital role in wealth creation through provision of infrastructure. However, the industry is known to be a major contributor to environmental degradation. This paper presents the results of the study, which assessed the environmental impacts of construction activities in Zambia. A quantitative approach was adopted for the study and a well-structured questionnaire survey was conducted on the construction professionals. Analysis of the data was done using the mean item scores. The study revealed that interface with the ecosystem, increase in various types of pollution and deforestation are the major impacts. Finally, there is need to adopt and implement sustainable construction practices as a way of reducing the impacts of construction activities on the environment. This can be achieved if all the stakeholders are involved, especially the government, which plays a cardinal role in the formulation of regulations and policies that support sustainable construction practices.
AB - The construction industry plays a vital role in wealth creation through provision of infrastructure. However, the industry is known to be a major contributor to environmental degradation. This paper presents the results of the study, which assessed the environmental impacts of construction activities in Zambia. A quantitative approach was adopted for the study and a well-structured questionnaire survey was conducted on the construction professionals. Analysis of the data was done using the mean item scores. The study revealed that interface with the ecosystem, increase in various types of pollution and deforestation are the major impacts. Finally, there is need to adopt and implement sustainable construction practices as a way of reducing the impacts of construction activities on the environment. This can be achieved if all the stakeholders are involved, especially the government, which plays a cardinal role in the formulation of regulations and policies that support sustainable construction practices.
KW - Construction activities
KW - Construction industry
KW - Environment
KW - Sustainability
KW - Zambia
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049663714&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-94199-8_52
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-94199-8_52
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049663714
SN - 9783319941981
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 535
EP - 541
BT - Advances in Human Factors, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure - Proceedings of the AHFE 2018 International Conference on Human Factors, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure, 2018
A2 - Falcao, Christianne
A2 - Charytonowicz, Jerzy
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 21 July 2018 through 25 July 2018
ER -
