Waste reduction final report -4 - Test Input

Introduction
This report has been produced by the CIB working commission 115 – Construction Materials
Stewardship. It is intended to provide an overview of construction waste reduction activities
across the world through a series of country reports.
A template was produced and sent to W115 members for completion. This included sections
on the following:
1. Current national statistics
2. Benchmark Data
3. Policies, strategies and legislation
4. Guidance documents/ reports linked to construction waste reduction
5. Exemplars, case studies
The completed reports are the main content of this publication.
About CIB W115 – Construction Materials Stewardship 1
This Commission aims to:
· Drastically reduce the deployment and consumption of new non-renewable construction
materials, to replace non-renewable materials with renewable ones whenever possible, to
achieve equilibrium in the demand and supply of renewable materials and ultimately to
restore the renewable resource base
· Carry out these tasks in ways to maximize positive financial, social and environmental and
ecological sustainability effects, impacts and outcomes.
Against this background the Commission's Objectives are to:
· Determine ways to utilise new and existing construction materials in the most effective and
ecologically, environmentally, socially and economic manner possible
· Develop life cycle costing and management mechanisms for materials
· Develop systems to mitigate and ultimately avoid construction material waste
· Develop ways of using material wastes as raw material for making construction materials
· Develop methodologies for designing transformable and adaptable buildings and spaces to
extend service life and so reduce overall construction material resource use
· Establish strategies to promote whole buildings, components and materials re-use
· Establish ways to regenerate the renewable material resource base and improve the
performance, availability and use of renewable construction materials
· Establish methods and strategies to enhance utilisation of used construction materials
· Establish what the barriers are to the sustainable use of building materials and devise
methodologies to overcome those barriers
· Develop information and research outcomes that will contribute to and facilitate the
establishment of policy and regulatory standards, initiatives and options aimed at reducing
new materials deployment and consumption
· Develop the necessary techniques and tools to support the foregoing objectives.
1 You can find more information on the activities of CIB W115 at www.cibw115.org
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