Exploring types of waste generated: a study of construction industry of Pakistan

The construction sector is responsible for providing fundamental physical structure required for living and survival of human life. Increased development works have led in resulting the massive amount of waste generation in developing countries. Due to poor management system on sites, it has becom...

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Main Authors:	Akhund, Muhammad Akram, Memon, Aftab Hameed, Memon, Nafees Ahmed, Ali, Tauha Hussain, Khos, Ali Raza, Imad, Hafiz Usama
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Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13672/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13672/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13672/1/347-1441-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-136722019-11-22T21:27:48Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13672/ Exploring types of waste generated: a study of construction industry of Pakistan Akhund, Muhammad Akram Memon, Aftab Hameed Memon, Nafees Ahmed Ali, Tauha Hussain Khos, Ali Raza Imad, Hafiz Usama The construction sector is responsible for providing fundamental physical structure required for living and survival of human life. Increased development works have led in resulting the massive amount of waste generation in developing countries. Due to poor management system on sites, it has become more crucial and exerts several negative impacts on society and the environment. This Unused waste material has a negative impact on the ecosystem and needs a considerable amount of money for recycling, reusing and disposal of the waste. Like other developing countries Pakistan is spending a significant portion of its GDP on handling construction waste. Among the several other factors, the key contributes are highlighted in this study. This study is exploratory work investigating the types of construction waste generated on site and their relative impact of the project cost in construction projects of Pakistan. Through questionnaire the opinion of clients, consultant and constructor have been taken to identify the major types of waste having more impacts on cost and time. Through Average index, severity index and importance index, the probability of occurrence of waste through different materials, severity level of waste production by these materials, and the overall effect of all waste generating materials have been found respectively. Among the materials sand, concrete, tile is the most common materials, which are responsible for a waste generation while time and cost are the two most common non-physical waste generating factors. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13672/1/347-1441-1-PB.pdf Akhund, Muhammad Akram and Memon, Aftab Hameed and Memon, Nafees Ahmed and Ali, Tauha Hussain and Khos, Ali Raza and Imad, Hafiz Usama (2019) Exploring types of waste generated: a study of construction industry of Pakistan. Journal of Building Performance, 10 (2). pp. 1-8. ISSN 2180-2106 http://spaj.ukm.my/jsb/index.php/jbp/issue/view/Special%20Issue
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description	The construction sector is responsible for providing fundamental physical structure required for living and survival of human life. Increased development works have led in resulting the massive amount of waste generation in developing countries. Due to poor management system on sites, it has become more crucial and exerts several negative impacts on society and the environment. This Unused waste material has a negative impact on the ecosystem and needs a considerable amount of money for recycling, reusing and disposal of the waste. Like other developing countries Pakistan is spending a significant portion of its GDP on handling construction waste. Among the several other factors, the key contributes are highlighted in this study. This study is exploratory work investigating the types of construction waste generated on site and their relative impact of the project cost in construction projects of Pakistan. Through questionnaire the opinion of clients, consultant and constructor have been taken to identify the major types of waste having more impacts on cost and time. Through Average index, severity index and importance index, the probability of occurrence of waste through different materials, severity level of waste production by these materials, and the overall effect of all waste generating materials have been found respectively. Among the materials sand, concrete, tile is the most common materials, which are responsible for a waste generation while time and cost are the two most common non-physical waste generating factors.
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author	Akhund, Muhammad Akram Memon, Aftab Hameed Memon, Nafees Ahmed Ali, Tauha Hussain Khos, Ali Raza Imad, Hafiz Usama
spellingShingle	Akhund, Muhammad Akram Memon, Aftab Hameed Memon, Nafees Ahmed Ali, Tauha Hussain Khos, Ali Raza Imad, Hafiz Usama Exploring types of waste generated: a study of construction industry of Pakistan
author_facet	Akhund, Muhammad Akram Memon, Aftab Hameed Memon, Nafees Ahmed Ali, Tauha Hussain Khos, Ali Raza Imad, Hafiz Usama
author_sort	Akhund, Muhammad Akram
title	Exploring types of waste generated: a study of construction industry of Pakistan
title_short	Exploring types of waste generated: a study of construction industry of Pakistan
title_full	Exploring types of waste generated: a study of construction industry of Pakistan
title_fullStr	Exploring types of waste generated: a study of construction industry of Pakistan
title_full_unstemmed	Exploring types of waste generated: a study of construction industry of Pakistan
title_sort	exploring types of waste generated: a study of construction industry of pakistan
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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