Environmental Performance for Two Formwork System Types: Conventional Formwork & Steel Formwork System

Abstract

Environmental aspect is one of the important criteria that define and determine sustainability performance for concrete formwork system. This study is aimed to compare the performance of the most common types of formwork system Conventional Formwork & Steel Formwork System in responding to environment category of sustainability development using questionnaire survey distributed among construction experts. The steel formwork system gets 11.5 score points while conventional formwork collects 7.8 points of total 19.4 score can be achieved. Overall steel formwork performance surpasses the conventional formwork while their score for formwork reusable element was adjacent with only 0.5 score difference meantime steel formwork had override conventional formwork in impact on local environment element. Generally steel formwork system may conceder as more environment friendly than conventional formwork especially in waste generation and using renewable material.

Life Cycle Cost and Evaluation of Performance between Steel Formwork and Plastic Formwork in Concrete Structure Building

“…A system of formwork is defined as the overall support system for newly made concrete. This includes the mould or sheathing which is in contact directly with the concrete, also other supporting structural tools such as members, bracing, and hardware [2]. Meanwhile, another research says that formwork is an impermanent structural tool that supports concrete to become the intended shape that is able to support the loads that were put on top of it until it is strong enough able to support itself [3].…”