A Review of Extant Literature and Recent Trends in Residential Construction Waste Reduction
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The residential construction sector in New Zealand and worldwide is experiencing increased criticism for generating substantial waste that poses environmental concerns. Accordingly, researchers have advocated implementing residential construction waste reduction (RCWR) strategies as a sustainable solution to managing construction waste (CW). This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of RCWR by analysing 87 articles from the Scopus database using bibliometric and critical review methods. The co-occurrence analysis of keywords revealed five clusters, in which five main themes emerged: (i) waste generation and management performance, (ii) prefabrication and life cycle assessment concepts, (iii) design concepts, (iv) circular economy and (v) decision-making concepts. The findings suggest that sustainable practices such as designing for waste reduction, prefabrication, waste quantification, three-dimensional printing and building information modelling can effectively achieve RCWR. The study also highlights the benefits of RCWR, including reducing environmental impacts, and identifies management, economic, legislative, technology and cultural barriers that affect the implementation of RCWR strategies. These results provide valuable insights to support future policy formulation and research direction for RCWR in New Zealand.Description
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Bibliometric analysis, circular economy, construction waste, New Zealand, residential construction, sustainable development, waste reduction, Bibliometric analysis, New Zealand, circular economy, construction waste, residential construction, sustainable development, waste reduction, 0905 Civil Engineering, 0907 Environmental Engineering, Environmental Sciences, 3302 Building, 4004 Chemical engineering, 4005 Civil engineering
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Waste Management and Research, ISSN: 0734-242X (Print); 0734-242X (Online), SAGE Publications, 734242X241241607-. doi: 10.1177/0734242X241241607
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