Evaluating the effects of green building on construction waste management: A comparative study of three green building rating systems

Lu, Weisheng; Chi, Bin; Bao, Zhikang; Zetkulic, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.03.050

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“…However, several authors pointed out green buildings did not meet the energy and water savings performances in the operational phases [5][6][7][8], nor on indoor environmental quality in actually promoting the building end-users' well-being [9,10]. Furthermore, the green building rating systems had a slight impact on tackling construction waste management as a result of weak appraisal measures [11].…”

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Managerial Practitioners’ Perspectives on Quality Performance of Green-Building Projects

Raouf

Al-Ghamdi

2020

Buildings

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The quality performance of a green building will have an overarching effect on its objectives because of the high compliance needed to achieve superior performance expectations. Achieving sustainability objectives is challenging and requires the collaboration of diverse professionals that resume unique responsibilities. In this study, the different managerial practitioners involved in green-building projects were investigated in terms of their awareness levels regarding the quality performance measures, their perceived abilities to influence quality failure consequences, the degree to which the cost-of-quality (CoQ) of components can be evaluated, and the effect the sustainability traits have on the quality performance. Accordingly, a survey approach was adopted, and the results were analyzed using Pearson’s chi-squared (χ2) test, the relative importance index (RII), Mann–Whitney U-Test, and Student’s T-test. According to the results, the priorities of the different managerial types and their overall impressions of cost computability were different, which needs to be considered when CoQ evaluations are done based on practitioners’ views. In addition, the sustainability traits of green buildings impact achieving quality metrics with the consequences of design rework occurring in the construction stage may lead to denouncing sustainability traits. The results of this research study reveal the need to consider the differences between managerial types when evaluating CoQ for projects and the increased sensitivity for such evaluation in a green building context. The paper contributes to underscoring the important connection between quality performance and sustainability traits of a green building project and calls for researchers to formulate methods with more rigor to reach a set structure for quality cost accounting as an industry standard. Intricate evaluation methods will enable strategic decision making on quality performance budgets to be more substantiated.

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Managerial Practitioners’ Perspectives on Quality Performance of Green-Building Projects

Raouf

Al-Ghamdi

2020

Buildings

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“…Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is an example of a voluntary program that encourages the building industry to recover C&D waste and reuse the recovered waste materials in new buildings because gaining LEED building certification is valued in the building industry. The concurrence of rising numbers of LEED buildings (Kahn and Vaughn, 2009;Wu and Low, 2010;Fuerst and McAllister, 2011) and improvements in materials recovery from WRF as observed in waste reuse trends (Cidell and Beata, 2009;Marcellus et al, 2012b;Lu et al, 2019) suggests that LEED could be stimulating material reuse in the construction sector. However, the paucity of measured or reported data on C&D waste recovery makes it difficult to track the effectiveness of LEED on C&D waste reuse.…”

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Can Public Construction and Demolition Data Describe Trends in Building Material Recycling? Observations From Philadelphia

Marcellus-Zamora

Gallagher

Spatari

2020

Front. Built Environ.

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There is a significant amount of waste generated during construction and demolition (C&D) activities, but few data to understand the sources, age, spatial origin, and its fate following entry into the waste management system. With few public records that track C&D waste flows, we turned to industry and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) to quantify C&D data and meta-data using material flow analysis (MFA). LEED databases are not normally used to build life cycle inventories or material flow accounts because they do not house sufficiently detailed data. We propose using the geo-referenced data on reused C&D waste in LEED databases to source parameters needed to build MFA models that support a circular building materials economy. By quantifying the change in C&D waste flow over years 2007-2017 and the diversion of materials from landfills from buildings in the United States City of Philadelphia, we found that, on average, 81% of total incoming waste was diverted from landfill and recycled into secondary materials markets. From LEED spatial data, we found that 77% of buildings sampled diverted C&D waste activities and installed building materials with recycled content. Although these findings describe material reuse metrics from different system boundaries in the built environment that cannot be statistically validated, they provide complementary data to describe C&D recycling performance benchmarks and incentive for future data collection to study and track trends in building material reuse. This case study highlights observations of C&D recovery and reuse from two separate but related operations, which could suggest that policies that incentivize C&D material reuse could promote a circular flow of building materials.

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“…Construction waste, sometimes termed as construction and demolition waste (C&D waste), refers to the solid waste resulting from any construction activities, such as new construction, renovation, and demolition (Roche and Hegarty, 2006;Lu et al, 2019). Construction waste can be generally classified into two generic portions, inert materials and non-inert waste depending on whether it has stable chemical properties (EPD, 1998).…”

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Construction waste management performance in green building: contextualising LEED in China

Bao

Chi

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Construction waste issues have raised considerable concern in recent decades. Green building (GB) has been adopted around the globe as a strategy to curtail building-related environmental issues, including construction waste. Particularly in China, with the soaring construction activities tied to urbanization and urban regeneration, massive construction waste has been generated, imposing tremendous pressure on the industry and beyond. China is also vigorously pursuing a national GB strategy, but its effects on construction waste management (CWM) are yet to be confirmed. This paper evaluates CWM performance in GB by putting the dyads into China's particular Political, Economic, Social, and Technical (PEST) context. By analysing a total of 310 LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) accredited GB projects in China, it is surprisingly discovered that GB does not prominently improve CWM. The paper goes further to understand the causes of the mediocre CWM performance, by conducting ten semi-structured interviews with GB and CWM practitioners in China. Finally, a comprehensive PEST analysis is conducted to discuss the situation in the context of China. Factors such as (a) incomplete CWM regulations in China, (b) lack of economic incentives, (c) lacklustre awareness about CWM, and (d) lack of advanced technologies, caused the CWM performance in GB. Based on the PEST analyses, some targeted strategies are also recommended. This study is of benefits to both researchers and practitioners in the GB industry.

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Evaluating the effects of green building on construction waste management: A comparative study of three green building rating systems

Cited by 102 publications

References 25 publications

Managerial Practitioners’ Perspectives on Quality Performance of Green-Building Projects

Managerial Practitioners’ Perspectives on Quality Performance of Green-Building Projects

Can Public Construction and Demolition Data Describe Trends in Building Material Recycling? Observations From Philadelphia

Construction waste management performance in green building: contextualising LEED in China

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