A framework for understanding waste management studies in construction

W Lu, H Yuan - Waste management, 2011 - Elsevier
During the past decades, construction and demolition (C&D) waste issues have received
increasing attention from both practitioners and researchers around the world. A plethora of …

Investigating waste reduction potential in the upstream processes of offshore prefabrication construction

W Lu, H Yuan - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
The construction industry around the globe has been increasingly advocated to utilize
prefabrication to minimize waste, thereby alleviating associated negative impacts on …

[HTML][HTML] Designing out construction waste using BIM technology: Stakeholders' expectations for industry deployment

OO Akinade, LO Oyedele, SO Ajayi, M Bilal… - Journal of cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
The need to use Building Information Modelling (BIM) for Construction and Demolition
Waste (CDW) minimisation is well documented but most of the existing CDW management …

Removal of cement mortar remains from recycled aggregate using pre-soaking approaches

VWY Tam, CM Tam, KN Le - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2007 - Elsevier
With a rising tide of adoption of recycled aggregate (RA) for construction, investigation on
ways to improve the quality of RA has been overwhelming. The adoption of RA brings …

A SWOT analysis of successful construction waste management

H Yuan - Journal of cleaner production, 2013 - Elsevier
Recent years have witnessed a significant amount of construction waste as a result of rapid
urbanization and large scale of construction activities in China. However, compared to many …

A theory of waste behaviour in the construction industry

MMM Teo, M Loosemore - Construction management and …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Levels of waste within the construction industry need to be reduced for environmental and
economic reasons. Changing people's wasteful behaviour can make a significant …

A benefit–cost analysis on the economic feasibility of construction waste minimisation: The case of Malaysia

RA Begum, C Siwar, JJ Pereira, AH Jaafar - Resources, conservation and …, 2006 - Elsevier
Construction waste is becoming a serious environmental problem in many large cities in the
world. In Malaysia, the construction industry generates lots of construction waste which …

Map** approach for examining waste management on construction sites

LY Shen, VWY Tam, CM Tam, D Drew - Journal of construction …, 2004 - ascelibrary.org
The increasing awareness of environmental impacts from construction wastes has led to the
development of waste management as an important function of construction project …

Comparing the implementation of concrete recycling in the Australian and Japanese construction industries

VWY Tam - Journal of Cleaner production, 2009 - Elsevier
Environmental problems have been considered to be serious in the construction industry.
Waste management pressures are pressing very hard with alarming industrial warming …

Effects of self-healing on the microstructure, transport, and electrical properties of 100% construction-and demolition-waste-based geopolymer composites

H Ulugöl, MF Günal, İÖ Yaman, G Yıldırım… - Cement and Concrete …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study aims to investigate the self-healing capability of engineered geopolymer
composites (EGCs) produced with 100% construction and demolition waste (CDW)-based …