Design out waste as an approach for achieving sustainability in Egyptian housing projects | ||
| The International Conference on Civil and Architecture Engineering | ||
| Volume 13, Issue 13, July 2020, Pages 1-20 PDF (1.62 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/974/1/012022 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Laila A. Elsawaf1; Ayman A. E. Othman2 | ||
| 1Senior Student, Architectural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, The British University in Egypt, Cairo-Suez Desert Road, El-Shorouk, Cairo, Egypt. | ||
| 2Head of Architectural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, The British University in Egypt, Cairo-Suez Desert Road, El- Shorouk, Cairo, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Housing projects have been increasing rapidly during the previous years to fulfil community needs and achieve the national and international sustainable development objectives. Due to their nature, housing projects generate a significant amount of waste that accounts for approximately 40% of the solid waste that the construction industry generates annually. Many of these wastes are a result of inappropriate decisions adopted during the design process such as using non-sustainable materials and inefficient use of natural recourses. Meanwhile, research has revealed that achieving sustainability within housing projects is a crucial challenge, yet an essential one. This called to think differently and adopting creative strategies for reducing construction waste during the design process. Therefore, this research aims to develop a matrix that correlates the aspects of sustainability with design out waste strategy as an approach within RIBA design phases for achieving sustainability in Egyptian public housing projects. A research methodologyconsists of literature review and case study was designed to achieve a working matrix by accomplishing three objectives. Firstly, literature review was used to investigate the topics of sustainability, design out waste strategy and housing projects. Secondly, a case study collected by literature presentedand analysed to identify the design out waste strategy for reducing waste as an approach to achieve sustainability. Finally, developing a matrix that correlates sustainability and design out waste strategy within RIBA design phases. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Waste Reduction; Design out waste strategy; Sustainability; housing projects; Waste; RIBA design phases | ||
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