TY  - CONF
TI  - Smart Homes and Waste Reduction
C1  - Auckland, New Zealand
C3  - Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 32)
SP  - 990
EP  - 1002
PY  - 2024
DO  - 10.24928/2024/0172
AU  - Awwal, Samira
AU  - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia
AU  - Gulzar, Mohammad Ruhail
AU  - Mishra, Rakesh
AU  - Fleming, Leigh
AU  - Conor, Scott
AD  - Research Assistant, Department of Engineering & Technology, School of Computing & Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom, s.awwal3@hud.ac.uk, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7771-1511
AD  - Professor, Department of Design and Built Environment, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom, p.tzortzopoulos@hud.ac.uk , https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8740-6753
AD  - KTP Associate, Department of Engineering & Technology, School of Computing & Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom, m.r.gulzar@hud.ac.uk, https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1983-2250
AD  - Professor, Department of Engineering & Technology, School of Computing & Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom, r.mishra@hud.ac.uk, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1620-3238
AD  - Reader, Department of Engineering & Technology, School of Computing & Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom, l.t.fleming2@hud.ac.uk, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6962-8686
AD  - Technical Director, Trust Electric Heating Ltd., Leeds, United Kingdom, scott@trustelectricheating.co.uk
AB  - The concept of smart homes includes smart technologies, systems, and devices to facilitate efficiency, security, comfort, and overall management of the home environment. This paper presents the concept of smart homes and discusses how it relates to waste reduction, especially energy waste. As waste reduction is one of the key lean principles, the notion of a "smart home" and " waste reduction" can be connected to optimising efficiency and increasing the functionality of the home. An experiment was carried out in the Huddersfield smart house research facility for the optimisation of energy usage through smart home technologies and efficient appliances, resulting in lifecycle waste reduction. The investigation highlights the connection between Smart Home’ and ‘Lean Waste Principles’ indicating how energy use in the building lifecycle is hidden in lean waste. This suggests a need for future empirical research to better understand how to reduce waste using smart home technology and provide solutions to resolve energy waste on a wider scale.
KW  - Smart Home
KW  - energy efficiency
KW  - waste reduction
KW  - comfort
KW  - lean waste
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/2253/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2253
N1  - Export Date: 25 April 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -