IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/arz/wpaper/eres2017_30.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Construction waste management: a study with special reference to practice in Indian micro construction sites

Author

Listed:
  • Anupam Saxena
  • Tushar Jindal

Abstract

In India it is usually found that the general construction practices are a source for many waste/unused materials that become a liability at the end of the construction process and are normally dumped at landfill sites causing erosion of the soil and the ground strata. Even the smallest of the construction sites are ultimately having a number of unused and waste items such as the rubble, bricks (new and broken), sand, cement, steel, paints, pipes, plumbing items, wires, switches, etc. This kind of wastage happens mainly due to the fact that in construction activity a certain quantity is accounted as breakage and hence some portion, however insignificant, of the total ordered quantity is always left unused/partially used or in damaged condition.This Research shall attempt to arrive upon the following:What is the quantum of these wastes – in proportion to the total area built??What are the kind of materials that are most often available during and post construction as wastes that finally get dumped on a land-fill area?How these materials can be effectively used:a.Within the site that is producing these wastes?b.What are alternative building blocks that can be produced from these wastes?c.For third-party benefit

Suggested Citation

  • Anupam Saxena & Tushar Jindal, 2017. "Construction waste management: a study with special reference to practice in Indian micro construction sites," ERES eres2017_30, European Real Estate Society (ERES).
    • Handle: RePEc:arz:wpaper:eres2017_30
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://eres.architexturez.net/doc/oai-eres-id-eres2017-30
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Construction Waste; Waste Management; Construction Material; Waste Recycling; Pollution; Sustainability; Skill Development; Climate Change ********* END *********;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • R3 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:arz:wpaper:eres2017_30. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Architexturez Imprints (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/eressea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.