Abstract
There are about 10 million tones of construction waste in Taiwan every year, and a lot of landfill space is needed. Because dealing with a huge amount of construction waste costs lots of money, contractors choose to dump waste arbitrarily in order to reduce cost. Most of the construction waste material is actually stable, therefore, government agencies advocate the reuse of construction waste in recent years.
In the past few years, government agencies focused on the waste produced by newly construction and demolition sites, hoping resource recycling can reduce waste. But if we put more attention to the waste which could be produced by construction, maintenance, demolition and other phases while designing, we could not only reduce waste, but also recycle more of the waste.
In this study, we collected the related waste reduction design principles, techniques and practical implementation of the indicators included the use of recycled building materials, materials using reduction, from different countries, for a total amount of 7 principles and 42 specific practices. According to the environment of Taiwan and architectural design methods, using expert interviews and questionnaire to establish a useful design principles and methods for construction waste reduction.