An amazing experiece as Conference Co-Chair, International Construction Digitalisation for Sustainable Development: Transformation through Innovation Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam. This year, the CDSD2020 concentrates on “Transforming through Innovation”, called Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operation practitioners to discuss challenges as well as to provide potential innovative solutions toward the transformation of the construction industry for a future sustainability of buildings and living environments. This conference will also invited policymakers and entrepreneurs in developing digital strategies and promoting cooperation between entrepreneurs and higher education to bridge the gap between academia and industry.
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All governments, industry sectors and societies each have a pivotal role to play if we are to mitigate anthro- pogenic climate change. For the construction industry, limiting emissions and addressing issues of sustainability is not just important for reducing the environmental impacts of the sector, but is simply good practice. This research investigates the nexus between the generation and management of waste and greenhouse gas perfor- mance in the refurbishment sector, with specific focus on UK student accommodation projects. Performance data from three case study projects were analysed in order to: evaluate the types and extent of wastes and how they are managed; the greenhouse gas impacts of each project waste management strategy; and an assessment is undertaken to estimate the number of BREEAM waste credits that each project would have achieved. The research concludes that the overall greenhouse gas performance of a project’s waste management strategy is highly dependent on how specific high emission impact factor waste streams are managed, and notably, there is a disconnect between waste targets, legislation and sustainability benchmarking schemes that measure success based on the levels of diverting waste from landfill, and the emission performance of waste management stra- tegies. A key area of risk potentially overlooked relates to the scenarios where proportionally small quantities of high emission wastes (e.g. plastics) were sent to landfill alongside large quantities of low emission wastes (e.g. aggregates, bricks, etc.). To ensure the increased emission performance of the refurbishment sector, greater focus is needed on preventing specific categories of waste from the landfill pathway.
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