Promoting the reuse and recycling of building demolition materials
Pun, Sung Kin, Liu, Chunlu, Langston, Craig, Treloar, Graham J. and Itoh, Yoshito 2006, Promoting the reuse and recycling of building demolition materials, World transactions on engineering and technology education, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 195-200.
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Promoting the reuse and recycling of building demolition materials
World transactions on engineering and technology education
Volume number
5
Issue number
1
Start page
195
End page
200
Publisher
UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education
Place of publication
Clayton, Vic.
Publication date
2006
ISSN
1446-2257
Summary
The demolition of constructed structures has earned a negative reputation for the construction industry due to the enormous amount of waste that is sent to landfills. Demolition waste reuse and recycling is, therefore, significant; it is a new and illustrative perspective on demolition waste management from the viewpoint of the building material lifecycle. It is discovered that demolition waste reuse and recycling plays important roles in value transformation for building material lifecycle, local economics, sustainable environment and nature resource conservation. In this research article, the authors aim to pinpoint demolition waste management in the lifecycle of building materials, and to examine various economic and environmental aspects of demolition waste reuse and recycling. In addition, the barriers, limitations and solutions for improving the implementation of demolition waste reuse and recycling are discussed in the article.
Language
eng
Field of Research
120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning