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International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology (IJCIET)
Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2018, pp. 475–488, Article ID: IJCIET_09_03_047
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ISSN Print: 0976-6308 and ISSN Online: 0976-6316
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AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH FOR ASSESSING
THE CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION
WASTE IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY BY
USING STANDARD PRACTICES
Y. Sreekanth Reddy
P.G Student, Department of Civil Engineering,
Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
K. Mahindra
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,
Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
SS. Asadi
Associate Dean Academics & Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,
Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
ABSTRACT
C&D waste is a remarkable waste stream, the wide measure of waste expand from
the consequence of expanding construction, maintenance, retrofitting and demolition
activities in India. It is evaluated that in India the construction firm produces around
18 million tons of waste every year. This makes huge difficulties regarding space for
disposal, unapproved dumping, blending with biodegradable waste, and so on.
Presently the construction and demolition (C&D) waste accumulation framework in
India is overseen in a decentralized way by each sub-contracted organization. This
absence of inclusive approach for C&D waste management causes confusing and in
some cases singular state of mind in regards to the different measures for C&D waste.
Therefore active waste management should be enforced. Construction stakeholders
have wide range of best applications in C&D waste administration that can be
implemented, so they should be assessed for their effectiveness. This research study
aims to assistance the construction stakeholders in making a decision on C&D waste
management. This paper brings out a survey accompanied among by the construction
managers and agents in directive to calculate the effectiveness of 24 standard practice
measures in respects to C&D waste administration, recognizing the most suitable
types of construction projects to implement these applications and also the benefits
and drawbacks of their implementation in a construction project. Results of this study
show that among the highly effective best applications are: the usage of industrialized
frameworks and the contract of suppliers managing the waste. In addition, small
containers are providing in the work spaces is also another high valued application,
although only 44% of respondents frequently appliance this measure in their works.