Construction Waste and Waste Management
Course Duration: 1 Day
Cost: £295 + VAT
The construction industry produces around 120 million tonnes of construction, demolition and excavation waste per year with only half of this currently being recycled or reclaimed. Some 10% of materials sent to landfill are brand new products, delivered to site but never actually used. As a result construction clients and developers are increasingly looking to set targets and requirements for waste management and to move the industry from its current - often poor - levels of performance to delivering best practice in waste management.
There are many drivers for change including the Site Waste Management Plan legislation which came into effect in Spring 2008. Effective construction waste management can be introduced at design, construction and operational phases of a project delivering significant environmental and commercial benefits including:
reduced material and disposal costs
increased competitive differentiation
responding to and pre-empting public policy and legislation
improved performance against Corporate Responsibility objectives
lower CO2 emissions
This one day course will encourage you to consider your projects differently and will equip you with the tools and understanding to implement waste minimisation and management strategies at all stages of a building or structure’s life cycle.
The course is highly interactive utilising case study and practical sessions throughout the day to deliver against its objectives. The training is focussed and immediately deployable delivering practical, useable and effective advice for you, your projects and your clients.
As part of the extended learning of this module a CD will be included containing a wealth of practical information, guidance and best practice documentation, design and assessment templates, key references, further reading and sources of additional information.
This module is part of a suite of “how to” sustainable development courses that focus on delivering best practice advice in an effective, understandable and useable way.
The tutor has broad experience of developing and delivering practical solutions on a wide variety of projects for public and private clients. A subject expert with extensive hands on knowledge, the tutor is a consultant to a leading specialist environmental consultancy.
Objectives
At the end of the course, you should be able to:
Understand the impacts of construction waste
Understand the legal framework for waste management with particular reference to construction
Understand the waste hierarchy
Be able to make design choices to improve resource efficiency and reduce waste
Be able to write a site waste management plan
Be able to manage waste on site more effectively
Intended for
All members of the project team - clients, designers, contractors and operators. Local and county authority staff that have a responsibility for ensuring best practice compliance for construction waste management.
Outline Programme
Waste Management - why bother?
Legislation update
Waste minimisation and management through all stages of a project
Waste arisings during a construction project (Practical Exercise)
Site waste management plans
Waste management options during a construction project (Practical Exercise)
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