Projection of Construction and Demolition Waste in Norway

Bergsdal, Håvard; Bohne, Rolf André; Brattebø, Helge

doi:10.1162/jiec.2007.1149

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“…and new construction 16%, while demolition is 8% of the total building and construction activity, renovation 40% and new construction 52% [5]. Waste generation per gross floor area (WGA) at demolition is reported as being twenty times more [5] or even fifty times more than new construction [4].…”

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Anticipating urban mining

Koutamanis¹,

Reijn²,

Bueren³

et al. 2017

24th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference

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In recent years there has been growing interest in urban mining from various environmental and economic perspectives. Materials hidden in buildings are attractive alternatives to raw ones, while building activities are responsible for a large share of waste. The paper is a summary of findings from an analysis of possibilities for urban mining in Amsterdam, focusing on prospecting for metals in residential buildings. Both global literature and interviews with Dutch demolition experts suggest that performance in metal recovery from buildings is as high as it can get. However, estimation of metal content in buildings and of waste processing rates is far from reliable, accurate and precise enough to support such claims or identify possibilities for further improvement, especially in relation to processes of urban and real-estate redevelopment and rejuvenation. To improve understanding and embedding of urban mining in these processes, we propose (a) a BIM-based information infrastructure that connects to municipal and owner information processes, so as to progressively collect all relevant information, allow for validation, verification and localization of valuable resources, as well as identify opportune moments for their extraction, and (b) policies that overcome the fragmented institutional character of the building sector, making information sharing a consequence of networking based on trust and shared values, driven by both demand and soft incentives relating to circularity.

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Section: Literature Review Canddwmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anticipating urban mining

Koutamanis¹,

Reijn²,

Bueren³

et al. 2017

24th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference

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“…Similarly, different development stages of an economy will have different implications to C & D waste generation. For example, Bergsdal, Bohne [54] reported that in Norway demolition was the smallest C & D activities, contributing only 8% in 1998 while construction and renovation contributed 52% and 40% respectively to waste generation. In China, owing to the urbanization, demolition is the major culprit for waste generation [17,55], while in Hong Kong relative balanced activities between demolition and new construction can be seen owing to the renewal of the decayed urban areas.…”

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Construction Waste Management Profiles, Practices, and Performance: A Cross-Jurisdictional Analysis in Four Countries

Tam

2016

Sustainability

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Construction waste management (CWM) has received worldwide attention for some time. As a result, a plethora of research, investigating a wide array of CWM issues such as their profiles, practices, and performance, has been reported in individual economies around the globe. However, a cross-jurisdictional comparison of these issues is limitedly presented in the literature despite its importance to benchmarking performance and identifying best CWM practices in the context of globalization whereby knowledge sharing has already transcended traditional country boundaries. The aim of this ex post facto research is to compare CWM profiles, practices, and performance in Australia, Europe (Europe refers to EU-27 member countries in the European Union, including Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Malta, Cyprus, Bulgaria, and Romania.), Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom at a national-level, with a view to facilitating CWM knowledge sharing internationally. It does so by triangulating empirical data collected from various national statistical yearbooks with research papers and professional reports on CWM in these economies. It is found that in producing one million (US) dollars' work, construction contributes a volume of solid waste ranging from 28 to 121 tons among countries. Conscientious CWM practices can make a significant difference in reducing, reusing, or recycling construction waste, as evident in the large variation in the CWM performance. While it might be oversimplified to conclude that the best practices in one country can be applied in another, the research provides insightful references into sharing CWM knowledge across boundaries.

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“…A number of MFA studies are available related to construction and demolition waste for countries and regions such as China (Shi et al 2012 ;Huang et al 2013 ), Japan ), The Netherlands (Müller 2006 ), Norway (Bergsdal et al 2007 ), and Taiwan (Hsiao et al 2002 ); for cities such as Beijing (Hu, D. et al 2010 ;Hu, M. et al 2010 ); and for specifi c infrastructures such as highway traffi c system (Wen and Li 2010 ).…”

Section: Construction and Demolition Wastementioning

confidence: 99%

Material Flow Analysis and Waste Management

Moriguchi

Hashimoto

2016

Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

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Material fl ow analysis (MFA, also known as Material Flow Accounting) has become one of the basic tools in industrial ecology, since its pioneering development by Ayres. This chapter reviews progress in MFA with emphasis on the use of MFA to support waste management and recycling policy.Waste statistics are compiled in most developed and some developing countries, but the basis is insuffi ciently standardized so that care is needed in making comparisons between countries. This also applies to recycling fl ows, which are diffi cult to defi ne and quantify. Waste arising from demolition can be predicted by dynamic modeling which also predicts future resource demand, but the discrepancies between predicted and reported waste quantities can be large due to "missing" or "dissipated" stock. Metals represent an important and valuable component of waste; metals in endof-life vehicles and e-waste in particular need to be quantifi ed for their recycling and ecological and human health impact assessment. MFA has also been applied to international trade of secondhand products containing metals. MFA studies on phosphorus have revealed potential ways to increase recovery that go beyond recycling from obvious wastes.

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Projection of Construction and Demolition Waste in Norway

Cited by 165 publications

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Anticipating urban mining

Anticipating urban mining

Construction Waste Management Profiles, Practices, and Performance: A Cross-Jurisdictional Analysis in Four Countries

Material Flow Analysis and Waste Management

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