Albsoul, HadeelDoan, Dat TienAigwi, Itohan EstherGhaffarianHoseini, Ali2024-04-222024-04-222024-04-10Waste Management and Research, ISSN: 0734-242X (Print); 0734-242X (Online), SAGE Publications, 734242X241241607-. doi: 10.1177/0734242X2412416070734-242X0734-242Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/17443The 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.© The Author(s) 2024. Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Bibliometric analysiscircular economyconstruction wasteNew Zealandresidential constructionsustainable developmentwaste reductionBibliometric analysisNew Zealandcircular economyconstruction wasteresidential constructionsustainable developmentwaste reduction0905 Civil Engineering0907 Environmental EngineeringEnvironmental Sciences3302 Building4004 Chemical engineering4005 Civil engineeringJournal ArticleOpenAccess10.1177/0734242X241241607