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The Whole House Reuse Project
Published in Atiq Zaman, Tahmina Ahsan, Zero-Waste, 2019
The landfill tax is an important institutional and policy tool to encourage more recycling and less dumping, as it involves costs. Thus under higher landfill tax, deconstruction activities would be more viable in the context of cost-benefit analysis. Nevertheless, the WHR project was considerably successful in engaging local communities and to some extent preserving the attachments to the house through the deconstruction process. Deconstruction not only provides resource recovery but also rehabilitates the memories of and attachments to the materials, space, and time. The owners of the case study project have vast memories regarding the house. In a conversation, the owners of the property stated, ‘That was the place we brought our two boys back after they were born and we had fantastic birthday parties and different moments there’. Thus by harvesting materials and creating new products from them, their emotional attachment with the property was preserved.
Project development and evaluation
Published in Peter Fewings, Christian Henjewele, Construction Project Management, 2019
Peter Fewings, Christian Henjewele
Political factors are connected with government policies that might have an influence on the project. These policies cover all sorts of areas, but a few of them are described below: Fiscal policy covers government tax and spending plans that affect the viability of building work and incentive to build.Policies related to training can affect skill levels in the industry in the long term. That said, many companies are not facing up to their own responsibility to sponsor training.Regeneration policy means that there are plenty of incentives to invigorate and develop city centres. Many companies have been drawn into dealing with brownfield sites and decontamination of land.Energy policies and subsidies provide shorter payback on renewable energies.Landfill tax has encouraged recycling and less waste and aggregates taken to landfill sites.
Sustainability and construction materials
Published in Peter Domone, John Illston, Construction Materials, 2018
Most construction is of course carried out in a competitive economic climate, so incentives for the industry to change practice must go beyond the long-term benefits to society. Although a company’s reputation and general perception of its corporate responsibility can benefit considerably from the implementation of green policies (and indeed this is highlighted in publicity information, annual reports etc.), in reality the incentive must largely be either economic or legislative or some combination of the two. In the UK, recycling of waste rather than disposal to landfill is a good example of the two working in combination. A landfill tax, introduced in 1996 (Aggregain, 2008), imposed a levy on waste disposed to landfill; this has been gradually increased thereafter (in 2008 it was £2.50 per tonne for inert or inactive waste and £32 per tonne for all other wastes) and has led to increased rates of recycling, reductions of over-ordering and more efficient site practices.
Design for deconstruction using a circular economy approach: barriers and strategies for improvement
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2020
Olugbenga Akinade, Lukumon Oyedele, Ahmed Oyedele, Juan Manuel Davila Delgado, Muhammad Bilal, Lukman Akanbi, Anuoluwapo Ajayi, Hakeem Owolabi
The stringency of such legislations and policies has been a proven way to ensure full compliance with government targets among the practitioners of the construction industry. An example is the UK government effort in diverting waste from landfills by imposing a landfill tax of £88.95/tonne for standard rated waste and £2.80/tonne for inert/inactive waste from 1 April 2018. In fact, there is a progressive increase in the landfill tax such that by 1 April 2020, £94.15/tonne will be charged as standard rate. In addition, the UK government made the provision of Code for Sustainable Homes (CfSH) compulsory for all residential building construction and the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) is becoming a popular requirement for new and refurbishment projects. Without a doubt, achieving this level of compulsion will favour the development of standardised “best practice” and guidelines for DfD. A strategy in this direction would be attributing more points to DfD in the BREEAM environmental assessment method.