TY  - CONF
TI  - A Case for Lean-Based Guidelines for Construction and Demolition Waste Minimization in Zimbabwe
C1  - Auckland, New Zealand
C3  - Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 32)
SP  - 930
EP  - 941
PY  - 2024
DO  - 10.24928/2024/0101
AU  - Maponga, Kurauwone
AU  - Emuze, Fidelis
AD  - PhD Candidate, Department of Construction Management, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa, kmaponga@gmail.com, orcid.org/0000-0002-5286-9635
AD  - Professor, Department of Built Environment, Central University of Technology, Free State, Private Bag X20539, Bloemfontein, 9301, South Africa, Tel: (051) 507 3089, Email: femuze@cut.ac.za. ORCID.org/0000-0001-7714-4457
AB  - Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) significantly costs Zimbabwe, as most waste is directed to landfills, riverbanks, and open spaces. This has made construction practitioners call for efficient strategies such as lean construction (LC). LC could help minimize construction waste in on-site operations. It could reduce land and water pollution and the blockage of watercourses caused by CDW. Minimizing CDW creates cost savings and value for the construction project clients. Although LC has addressed CDW minimization in varying countries, this is not the case in Zimbabwe, where a pressing need for resource efficiency is urgent. Thus, this paper proposes a conceptual framework for evolving LC-based guidelines for minimizing CDW in Zimbabwe. A critical review of relevant literature was conducted to observe how LC tools are utilized to minimize CDW. Given that such a framework could limit the pollution of land and open spaces with CDW, which affects people and the built environment in general, the next phase of the doctoral study would be to test and modify it through mixed methods research empirically.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - Demolition
KW  - Lean
KW  - Waste
KW  - Pollution
KW  - Construction projects
KW  - Zimbabwe
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 32)
DA  - 2024/07/01
CY  - Auckland, New Zealand
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2248/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2248
N1  - Export Date: 25 April 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -