TY - GEN
T1 - Construction waste material cross jurisdictional trading
T2 - Construction Research Congress 2020: Infrastructure Systems and Sustainability
AU - Bao, Zhikang
AU - Lu, Weisheng
AU - Chi, Bin
AU - Hao, Jianli
AU - Chin, Chee Seong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American Society of Civil Engineers.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Construction waste, as a by-product of construction activities, has raised great concern worldwide due to its adverse effects on the environment. Extensive studies have been conducted to devise various strategies to improve the construction waste management performance. Various measures guided by the 3R principles have been proposed in the last few decades, which has indeed relieved the construction waste issues. However, with the increasingly severe construction waste issues in the predictable future, it is also highly necessary to have other innovative strategies in addition to the 3R principles as handling construction waste issues is a systematic project. Amid all the strategies, the management of inert portion, termed as construction waste material (CWM), occupying the predominant volume in the total construction waste has received increasing concerns. Now, a promising solution is to boost the CWM cross jurisdictional trade, which very few studies have been conducted. However, the de facto extent of this trade is still too modest and the barriers against it are still yet to be known. Therefore, this study aims to bridge the research gap by investigating the potential barriers to CWM trading through adoption of political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal (PESTEL) framework with a case study of Greater Bay Area (GBA) in China. It is discovered that insufficient political and economic incentives, weak public consciousness, lack of labelling of compliant materials, asymmetric information, and imperfect legal system have hindered the development of CWM trading. Through the case study of GBA, some significant hints and references can be obtained for GBA and beyond to devise more targeted strategic framework to boost the CWM cross jurisdictional trade so that CWM issues can be generally relieved if not fully eliminated. The research deliverables are of benefit for various jurisdictions to relieve the long-lasting construction waste issues.
AB - Construction waste, as a by-product of construction activities, has raised great concern worldwide due to its adverse effects on the environment. Extensive studies have been conducted to devise various strategies to improve the construction waste management performance. Various measures guided by the 3R principles have been proposed in the last few decades, which has indeed relieved the construction waste issues. However, with the increasingly severe construction waste issues in the predictable future, it is also highly necessary to have other innovative strategies in addition to the 3R principles as handling construction waste issues is a systematic project. Amid all the strategies, the management of inert portion, termed as construction waste material (CWM), occupying the predominant volume in the total construction waste has received increasing concerns. Now, a promising solution is to boost the CWM cross jurisdictional trade, which very few studies have been conducted. However, the de facto extent of this trade is still too modest and the barriers against it are still yet to be known. Therefore, this study aims to bridge the research gap by investigating the potential barriers to CWM trading through adoption of political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal (PESTEL) framework with a case study of Greater Bay Area (GBA) in China. It is discovered that insufficient political and economic incentives, weak public consciousness, lack of labelling of compliant materials, asymmetric information, and imperfect legal system have hindered the development of CWM trading. Through the case study of GBA, some significant hints and references can be obtained for GBA and beyond to devise more targeted strategic framework to boost the CWM cross jurisdictional trade so that CWM issues can be generally relieved if not fully eliminated. The research deliverables are of benefit for various jurisdictions to relieve the long-lasting construction waste issues.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85096943589&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1061/9780784482858.066
DO - 10.1061/9780784482858.066
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85096943589
T3 - Construction Research Congress 2020: Infrastructure Systems and Sustainability - Selected Papers from the Construction Research Congress 2020
SP - 609
EP - 618
BT - Construction Research Congress 2020
A2 - El Asmar, Mounir
A2 - Tang, Pingbo
A2 - Grau, David
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Y2 - 8 March 2020 through 10 March 2020
ER -