A Study on Construction Site Waste Management in Klang Valley, Malaysia

Tan, Chie Enn (2018) A Study on Construction Site Waste Management in Klang Valley, Malaysia. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

Construction and demolition activities generate thousands of tonnes of solid wastes every year. The increasing generation of construction wastes has caused significant impacts to the environment and aroused growing public concern in the local community. Thus the increasing awareness of environmental impacts from construction site wastes has led to the development of construction site waste management as an important function of construction project management and the minimization of construction site wastes has become a pressing issue. The environmental impact of construction wastes is permanent and accumulated, and the components are increasing diversified, so, the secondary contaminations are also increasing severe. The objective of this descriptive study is to investigate the factor causing inefficient of contractor in construction site waste and to indicate the most common construction site waste minimisation practice by Malaysia contractor. Construction site waste can be manage and minimise by 3 methods, reduce, reuse and recycle. It is also important to identify what had causes the generation of construction site wastes. Based on a review of literature, this paper gives a framework of construction site waste management, importance of waste management in Malaysia, causes of construction site waste, waste management hierarchy, challenges in achieving the concept of sustainability in waste management, solution to minimise construction site waste, etc.