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Over billions of tonnes of construction and demolition waste are generated worldwide annually.
These wastes can be hazardous to environment is not disposed off at suitable place without
environmental impact assessment of such wastes. The other alternate is to recycle and reuse of
the demolished building materials to minimize the risk of harmful impacts.
How to make construction waste sustainable?
Following are the steps which need to be followed to make construction waste more sustainable:
Recover (recycling, composting, energy) recycle what you can only after
you have reused it.
Use of durable construction materials and quality control at site for durability of structure is one
step towards minimization of construction waste generation.
2. Use of Sustainable Building Materials:
Building Materials such as sand and gravel have been used for thousands of years in
construction. The demand for these is increasing day by day as demand for infrastructure
development is increasing.
Uses of construction materials such river sand and gravels also have negative impact on
environment. Excessive sand-and-gravel mining causes the degradation of rivers. Instream
mining lowers the stream bottom, which may lead to bank erosion. This results in the destruction
of aquatic and riparian habitat through large changes in the channel morphology. Impacts include
bed degradation, bed coarsening, lowered water tables near the streambed, and channel
instability.
There are many harmful impacts of using river sand and mining of gravels and a detailed study is
required to list all the negative impacts. The use of alternate building materials can reduce the
impact of this on environment.
The alternate to river sand is Manufactured Sand (M-Sand) which can be used in construction
works reduce impacts of mining river sand.
3. Energy Consumption and Green House:
Around 40% of total energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions are directly due to
construction and operation of buildings. The best of to reduce this impact is the use of green
buildings construction techniques. The use of transparent concrete in buildings also helps to
reduce the use of energy for lighting during day time.
Durability and quality of building components, generally chosen to last for the
appropriate refurbishment or demolition cycle.
Make site waste management plans not only during construction but also
during use or operation.