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Article: Estimating and calibrating the amount of building-related construction and demolition waste in urban China
Title | Estimating and calibrating the amount of building-related construction and demolition waste in urban China |
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Keywords | Construction and demolition waste Estimation Waste management Urbanization China |
Issue Date | 2017 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis, co-published with the Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tjcm20#.Vi7q2X4rIdU |
Citation | International Journal of Construction Management, 2017, v. 17 n. 1, p. 13-24 How to Cite? |
Abstract | One side effect of the unprecedented urbanization in China is the large amount of building-related construction and demolition (C&D) waste generated during the process. It is an enigma why such statistics as C&D waste generation are absent from the literature in spite of their importance to devising sensible interventions to deal with the C&D waste related problems. This paper aims to estimate the amount of C&D waste at the country level. It does so by adopting a methodology utilizing national statistical data and the average amounts of waste generated at job sites. Furthermore, the estimation is undergone a thorough calibration against various independent sources before it can be accepted confidently. It is finally estimated that approximately 1.13 billion tons of C&D materials were generated in China during 2014, which has declined from a plateau of building activities and C&D waste generation in the early 2010s. The paper provides some useful references for devising appropriate C&D waste reduction, reuse, or recycling strategies. The paper also offers useful commentary on methodology to estimate C&D waste generation at an urban level, particularly in situations where data availability is erratic. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/223896 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.4 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.085 |
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dc.contributor.author | Lu, W | - |
dc.contributor.author | Webster, CJ | - |
dc.contributor.author | Peng, Y | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chen, X | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, X | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-03-18T02:30:53Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-03-18T02:30:53Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | International Journal of Construction Management, 2017, v. 17 n. 1, p. 13-24 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1562-3599 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/223896 | - |
dc.description.abstract | One side effect of the unprecedented urbanization in China is the large amount of building-related construction and demolition (C&D) waste generated during the process. It is an enigma why such statistics as C&D waste generation are absent from the literature in spite of their importance to devising sensible interventions to deal with the C&D waste related problems. This paper aims to estimate the amount of C&D waste at the country level. It does so by adopting a methodology utilizing national statistical data and the average amounts of waste generated at job sites. Furthermore, the estimation is undergone a thorough calibration against various independent sources before it can be accepted confidently. It is finally estimated that approximately 1.13 billion tons of C&D materials were generated in China during 2014, which has declined from a plateau of building activities and C&D waste generation in the early 2010s. The paper provides some useful references for devising appropriate C&D waste reduction, reuse, or recycling strategies. The paper also offers useful commentary on methodology to estimate C&D waste generation at an urban level, particularly in situations where data availability is erratic. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis, co-published with the Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tjcm20#.Vi7q2X4rIdU | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal of Construction Management | - |
dc.rights | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Construction Management on 25 Apr 2016, available online at: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15623599.2016.1166548 | - |
dc.subject | Construction and demolition waste | - |
dc.subject | Estimation | - |
dc.subject | Waste management | - |
dc.subject | Urbanization | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.title | Estimating and calibrating the amount of building-related construction and demolition waste in urban China | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Lu, W: wilsonlu@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Webster, CJ: cwebster@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Lu, W=rp01362 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Webster, CJ=rp01747 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/15623599.2016.1166548 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84964412441 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 257347 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 17 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 13 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 24 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000396723700002 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1562-3599 | - |