Factors influencing temporary wood waste generation in high-rise building construction
Abstract
In Brazil, the use of wood in construction is primarily temporary, and it can represent a great percentage of construction waste. It is typically discarded with minimal reuse or recycling. As landfill wood disposal could result in methane emissions and/or leaching of hazardous constituents polluting water or soil, the implementation of temporary wood waste reduction strategies must be a critical issue for local construction companies. To manage and control wood waste generation, including setting some reduction goals, it is necessary to identify the influencing factors and ways to quantitatively predict their relative contributions. This study uses a multiple regression statistical model to estimate the amount of temporary wood waste generated in the construction of high-rise buildings by considering the influencing factors related to the design/construction as well as site and safety installations. The case study includes 22 high-rise residential buildings. The regression model predicted approximately 89% of the factors involved in the generation of wood waste in similar constructions. The dependent variables that had an influence on the amount of wood waste are related to design features ('number of floors'), structural construction system ('in situ moulded concrete volume'), and site and safety installations ('site wood fence' and 'wood use rate'). Ways of minimising wood waste generation and the contributions of each type of temporary wood use were discussed.
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The future potential of wood waste recycling is quite low, mainly lacking sustainable reuse or recycling applications.
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- Authors
- Kern, A. P., Amor, L. V., Angulo, S. C., & Montelongo, A.
- Affiliations
- Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (BR)
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (BR)
- ORCID
- Montelongo, Alfredo
- Venue
- Waste Management
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-08
- Volume
- 78
- Pages
- 446-455
- ISSN
- 0956-053X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2810484876
- Semantic Scholar
- 96f03dac3acdcb081c13c087003f791a03249057
- Cited by
- 43
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 2.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Waste Management (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e Tecnológico
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Construction Engineering and Safety
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › BIM and Construction Integration
- Keywords
- high-rise building construction, construction waste generation, wood waste reduction, influencing factors, multiple linear regression, high-rise residential buildings, cast-in-place concrete, methane emissions, waste reduction
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