Sustainable Construction Waste Management in Malaysia

Tan, Edmond Chia Fook (2018) Sustainable Construction Waste Management in Malaysia. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

The Malaysian construction industry continues to grow, benefiting the country’s economy and providing essential infrastructure. However, this thriving industry is responsible for one of the single largest waste streams in the country. This paper focuses on the current status of waste management in the Malaysian construction sector. It builds on existing research and assesses the level of sustainable practices on construction sites in terms of waste management. The title of this research project is the Sustainable Construction Waste Management in Malaysia by Edmond Tan Chia Fook. The research aim in this research project is to identify the type of construction material waste and the awareness of contraction parties on this construction material waste and the impact on environment. Ultimately identify methods and strategies to minimize construction material waste of construction industry in Malaysia. The problem is that, material, manpower, money and machine plays important role in construction projects while building materials is responsible for 60-70% of the project cost. Therefore, even one percent of material wastage will have huge negative impact on the construction cost and most importantly, affect the natural environment. Therefore, the management and efforts of waste minimization needs to be continued and maximised with suitable measures proposed and implement them to solve existing problems towards the sustainability issue of construction industry. The methods used in this research are literature review and questionnaire survey. Literature reviews that are used in this research resulted that most of the researchers agree that good waste management and waste minimization strategies can greatly reduce extra cost for a project, reduce negative impacts towards the environment and also make the construction project activities smoother. After collecting all the questionnaires from the respondents and made an analysis out of the results, it can come into a conclusion of good waste management and waste minimization strategies are very important for the cost efficiency, time efficiency and also the sustainability in construction.