Stakeholders’ Skills, Decision Making, Commitment, and Ethics are the Major Contributing Factors to Construction and Demolition Waste: Why and How

This can be explained by the fact that CDW Management (CDWM) adoption is highly connected to the decision makers’ buy-in and existing regulation and incentivesTaxonomy of Causative Factors of BLC waste generation and/or persistence.. Also, implementation of an efficient CDWM is a complex and dynamic process due to 3 key factors:

1. First, it involves multiparametric activities such as design, planning, work execution, materials procurement and supply chain, workforce and machinery management, and coordination. Each of these activities could either cause or reduce WG depending on the performance of decision making and used tools and methods.

2. Second, construction projects cover a wide range of project types (e.g., residential, industrial, and roads), which result in wider range of wasted Materials and Components (MCs) types and diverse construction and demolition methods.

3. Then, CDW causes are highly affected by the construction industry fragmentation where various stakeholders and scopes are included and also vary throughout building life cycle (BLC) stages.