School Construction and Waste Diversion: An Interorganizational Perspective
Abstract
The aim of this qualitative study was to explore reducing, reusing, and recycling materials during a demolition, renovation, and construction project at a Vermont public school site. Participants included school district representatives, architects, builders, trades-people, end-use marketers, and solid waste specialists, with each of the participants representing a different perspective of school construction. The study underscored potential changes other participants could adopt that might lead to increasing the total capacity of school construction stakeholders to divert solid waste materials from the waste stream. Themes studied included (a) valuing waste diversion, (b) building infrastructure capacity, (c) balancing cost-effectiveness with strategies, and (d) communicating strategies and obstacles. In particular, the study identified activities currently used and obstacles to solid waste diversion efforts.
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Integrating reuse in contractual requirements will increase reuse rates.
“some articles suggest that by integrating reuse in the contractual requirements, reuse rates will increase (Gorgolewski, 2008; Gorgolewski et al., 2008; MacKinnon, 2000).”
From Components reuse in the building sector – A systematic review (2020) · cites this paper as MacKinnon, 2000
Increased awareness of the full benefits of reuse among stakeholders is a driver to reuse.
“Factors such as society’s environmental concerns (Chileshe et al., 2016a) or the increased awareness of the full benefits of reuse among the stakeholders (MacKinnon, 2000) are identified as drivers to reuse.”
From Components reuse in the building sector – A systematic review (2020) · cites this paper as MacKinnon, 2000
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- Authors
- MacKinnon, C. T.
- Affiliations
- University of Vermont (US)
- Corresponding author
- MacKinnon, Colleen T
- Venue
- Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2000-12
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 877-891
- ISSN
- 0265-8135 (ISSN-L)
- 1472-3417
- OpenAlex
- W2025571107
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Environment and Planning B Planning and Design (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Construction Management and Sustainability
- Keywords
- school construction, construction and demolition waste, recycling, reuse of building materials, inter-organizational collaboration, stakeholder perspectives, cost-effectiveness, public schools
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