CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Bhagwat, Rohit Vikas |
|---|---|
| Title | Site Waste Management Practices in Construction Industry in United Kingdom |
| Summary | The construction industry in United Kingdom has long been away from environmental issues including resource efficiency, waste management, etc. One of the main impacts that they have is the waste that they generate through their activities. Construction sector in UK is one of the fastest growing sector, it contributes to 8.2 % of the country’s GDP and employs about 2.1 million people (DTI, 2006) and generates approximately 32% of the total waste generated in the country and most of the waste from this sector goes to landfill sites (Defra, 2004). The government published a policy document in 2004 in order to try and initiate better waste management activities within the construction sector. The aim of this project is assess waste management practices within the sector. Overall objectives of this work are to review this policy document and see how it helps the industry to start with the waste management practices and what impact this policy has on construction activities (Chapter 2). Further, this work incorporates a few case studies which are based on sound waste management practices and discusses what sort of benefits they achieve after doing waste management (Chapter 3). The last part of this project talks about a few alternatives or new options in terms of materials which could be promoted and used by the construction sector in UK in order to reduce the pressure on natural resources and to support waste management initiatives within the sector (Chapter 4). |
| Supervisor | Dr. Craig William H. |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/bhagwat_rohit.pdf |
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