ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Efficacy of Prefabrications on Constructions' Waste Cost and its Eco-Efficiency
1
Department of Civil Engineering, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran
Online publication date: 2022-10-13
Publication date: 2022-09-01
Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports 2022;32(3):207-227
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
Prefabrication in construction industry can probably reduce the cost of waste. In this research, the advantages and disadvantages of prefabrication and its eco-efficiency were identified; then the development strategies of this industry were reviewed. For this purpose, the questionnaires were used to select the proper sub-systems for prefabrication. The Delphi Snowball method was applied according to experts 'opinion, and these questionnaires were identified and adopted. Then the effect of prefabrication on nonstructural components was examined on the extent of waste reduction. Consequently, the results revealed that prefabrication may reduce the cost of waste by 97.54% and the total cost of the project by 5.06%, and environmental efficiency was estimated as 99.2%.
REFERENCES (50)
1.
Teixidó-Figueras, J et al. 2016. International inequality of environmental pressures: Decomposition and comparative analysis. Environmental Indicators 62, 163–173.
2.
Agamuthu, P 2008. Challenges in sustainable management of construction and demolition waste. Waste Manage 26(6), 491–492.
3.
Craven, EJOH and Eilenberg, IM 1994. Construction waste and a new design methodology. Sustainable construction: pro ceedings of the first conference of CIB TG 16, 89–98.
4.
Rogoff, MJ and Williams, JF 1994. Approaches to implementing solid waste recycling facilities.
5.
Ferguson, J, Kermode, N, Nash, CL, Sketch, WAJ, Huxford, RP. Managing and minimizing construction waste: a practical guide. London: Amer Society of Civil Engineers, 1995.
6.
Lu, W, Yi Peng, X, Liu, X 2018. The effects of green building on construction waste minimization: Triangulating ‘big data’ with ‘thick data’, Waste Management 79,142–152.
7.
Vivian, WYT, Tam, CM, Zeng, SX, William, CYN 2007. Towards adoption of prefabrication in construction. Building and environment 42(10), 3642–3654.
8.
Parisi Kern, A, Vargas Amor, L, CirelliAngulo, S, Montelongo, A 2018. Factors influencing temporary wood waste generation in high-rise building construction. Waste Management 78, 446–455.
9.
Li, Y, Zhang, X, Ding, G, Feng, Z 2016. Developing a quantitative construction waste estimation model for building construction projects. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 106, 9–20.
10.
Ajayi, SO, Oyedele, LO, Bilal, M, Akinade, OO, Alaka, HA, Owolabi, HA 2017. Critical management practices influencing on-site waste minimization in construction projects. Waste Management 59, 330–339.
11.
Ibrahim, M 2016. Estimating the Sustainability Returns of Recycling Construction Waste from Building Projects. Sustainable Cities and Society 23, 78–93.
12.
Ajayi, SO, Oyedele, LO, Akinade, OO, Bilal, M, Alaka, HA, Owolabi, HA, Kadiri, KO 2017. Attributes of design for construction waste minimization: A case study of waste-to-energy project. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 73, 1333–1341.
13.
Ajayi, SO, Oyedele, LO, Akinade, OO, Bilal, M, Alaka, HA, Owolabi, HA 2017. Optimizing material procurement for construction waste minimization: An exploration of success factors. Sustainable Materials and Technologies 11, 38–46.
14.
Li, J, Zuo, J, Cai, H, Zillante, G 2018. Construction waste reduction behavior of contractor employees: An extended theory of planned behavior model approach. Journal of Cleaner Production 172, 1399–1408.
15.
Ajayi, SO, Oyedele, LO 2018. Critical design factors for minimizing waste in construction projects: A structural equation modeling approach. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 137, 302–313.
16.
Di Maria, A, Eyckmans, J, Van Acker, K 2018. Down cycling versus recycling of construction and demolition waste: Combining LCA and LCC to support sustainable policy making. Waste Management 75, 3–21.
17.
Wu, Z, Shen, L, Yu, ATW, Zhang, X. A 2016. Comparative analysis of waste management requirements between five green building rating systems for new residential buildings. Journal of Cleaner Production 112, 895–902.
18.
Zaharieva, RH, Dimitrova, E, B-Bodin, F 2003. Building waste management in Bulgaria: challenges and opportunities. Waste Management 23, 749–761.
19.
Rosado, LP, Vitale, P, Penteado, CSG, Arena, U 2019. Life cycle assessment of construction and demolition waste management in a large area of São Paulo State Brazil. Waste Management 85, 477–489.
20.
Maurício Furtado Maués, L, Oliveira do Nascimento, BDM, Lu W, Xue, F 2020. Estimating construction waste generation in residential buildings: A fuzzy set theory approach in the Brazilian Amazon: Journal of cleaner production 265, 121779.
21.
Domingo, N, Batty, T 2021. Construction waste modelling for residential construction projects in New Zealand to enhance design outcomes. Waste management 120, 484–493.
22.
Thongkamsuk, P, Sudasna, K, Tondee, T 2017. Waste generated in high-rise buildings construction: A current situation in Thailand. Energy Procedia 138, 411–416.
23.
Ding, Z, Yi, G, Tam, VWY, Huang, T 2016. A system dynamics-based environmental performance simulation of construction waste reduction management in China. Waste Management 51, 130–141.
24.
Martos, JG, Styles, D, Schoenberger, H, Zeschmar-Lahl, B 2018. Construction and demolition waste best management practice in Europe. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 136, 166–178.
25.
Ansari, M, Ehrampoush, MH 2018. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of construction and demolition waste in Yazd city, Iran. Data in Brief 21, 2622–2626.
26.
Lockrey, S, Nguyen, H, Crossin, E, Verghese, K 2016. Recycling the construction and demolition waste in Vietnam: opportunities and challenges in practice. Journal of Cleaner Production 133, 757–766.
27.
Robayo-Salazar, RA, Rivera, JF, De Gutiérrez, RM 2017. Alkali-activated building materials made with recycled construction and demolition wastes. Construction and Building Materials 149, (2017)130–138.
28.
Oliveira, MLS, Querol, MX, Lieberman, RN, Saikia, BK, Silva, LFO 2019. Nanoparticles from construction wastes: A problem to health and the environment. Journal of Cleaner Production 219, 236–243.
29.
Jaillon, L, Poon, C 2014. Life cycle design and prefabrication in buildings: a review and case studies in Hong Kong. Autom. Construct 39, 195–202.
30.
Teng, Y, Pan, W 2019. Systematic embodied carbon assessment and reduction of prefabricated high-rise public residential buildings in Hong Kong. Journal of Cleaner Production 238, 117791.
31.
Zhu, H, Hong, J, Shen, GQ, Mao, C, Zhang, H, Li Z 2018. The exploration of the life- cycle energy saving potential for using prefabrication in residential buildings in China. Energy Build. 166, 561–570.
33.
Afrakhteh, H. Natural disaster and passive management, in: Third International Conference on Crisis Management in Incident, Extension quality company, Tehran, 2007.
34.
Chi, B, Lu W, Ye, M, Bao, Z, Zhang, X 2020. Construction waste minimization in green building: A comparative analysis of LEED-NC 2009 certified projects in the US and China. Journal of cleaner production 256, 120749.
35.
Mahpour, A 2018. Prioritizing barriers to adopt circular economy in construction and demolition waste management. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 134, 216–227.
36.
Hong, J, Qiping Shen, G, Li Z, Zhang, B, Zhang, W 2018. Barriers to promoting prefabricated construction in China: A cost-benefit analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production 172, 649–660.
37.
Chauhan, K, Peltokorpi, A, Lavikka, R., Seppeanen, O. Deciding between prefabrication and on-site construction: a choosing-by-advantage approach, in: Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC. net, 2019.
38.
Arif, M, Egbu, C 2010. Making a case for offsite construction in China. EngConstruct Architect Manage 17, 536–548.
39.
Neill, O, Organ, S. A 2016. Literature review of the evolution of British prefabricated low- rise housing. Struct. Surv 34, 191–214.
40.
Steinhardt, D, Manley, K, Bildsten, L, Widen, K 2019. The Structure of Emergent Prefabricated Housing Industries: a Comparative Case Study of Australia and Sweden. Construction Management and Economics 38 (6), 1–19.
41.
Lu, N. The current use of offsite construction techniques in the United States construction industry, in: Construction Research Congress Building a Sustainable Future 2009.
42.
Tam, VW, Tam, CM, Zeng, S, Ng, WC 2007. Towards adoption of prefabrication in construction. Build. Environ. 42, 3642–3654.
43.
Bell, P. Kiwi Prefab: Prefabricated Housing in New Zealand, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009.
44.
Durdyev, S, Ismail, S. 2019. Offsite manufacturing in the construction industry for productivity improvement. Eng. Manag. J. 31, 35–46.
45.
Ghasemi Poor Sabet, P, Chong, HY. Interactions between building information modelling and off-site manufacturing for productivity improvement. Int. J. Manag. Proj. Bus. 2019.
46.
Ranasinghe, U, Ruwanpura, J, Liu X 2011. Streamlining the construction productivity improvement process with the proposed role of a construction productivity improvement officer, J. Constr. Eng. Manag. 138, 697–706.
47.
Arashpour, M, Kamat, V, Bai, Y, Wakefield, R, Abbasi, B 2018. Optimization modeling of multi-skilled resources in prefabrication: theorizing cost analysis of process integration in off-site construction. Autom. ConStruct. 95, 1–9.
48.
Wang Z, Hu H, Gong J 2018. Framework for modeling operational uncertainty to optimize offsite production scheduling of precast components. Automation Construction 86, 69–80.
49.
Hong, J, Shen, GQ, Li, Z, Zhang, B, Zhang, W 2018. Barriers to promoting prefabricated construction in China: a cost–benefit analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production 172, 649–660.
50.
Kasperzyk, C, Kim, MK, Brilakis, I 2017. Automated re-prefabrication system for buildings using robotics. Automation in Construction 83,184–195.
Share
RELATED ARTICLE
| eISSN: | 2450-8594 |
| ISSN: | 2080-5187 |
We process personal data collected when visiting the website. The function of obtaining information about users and their behavior is carried out by voluntarily entered information in forms and saving cookies in end devices. Data, including cookies, are used to provide services, improve the user experience and to analyze the traffic in accordance with the Privacy policy. Data are also collected and processed by Google Analytics tool (more).
You can change cookies settings in your browser. Restricted use of cookies in the browser configuration may affect some functionalities of the website.
You can change cookies settings in your browser. Restricted use of cookies in the browser configuration may affect some functionalities of the website.
