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Residential Construction Waste Management: A Builder's Field Guide

by Peter Yost and Eric Lund (1997).

NAHB Research Center, 400 Prince George’s Blvd., Upper Marlboro, MD 20774; 301/249-4000, www.nahbrc.com. Paperback, 30 pages, free of charge.

Based on waste assessments conducted by the NAHB Research Center in 1995

The task of job-site waste management just got easier. This concise guide from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Research Center fills a big void that has existed on how to responsibly and cost-effectively manage residential construction waste.

Residential Construction Waste Management: A Builder’s Field Guide takes the reader through a step-by-step process of developing and then carrying out a waste-management plan.

Key issues covered include:

•Waste reduction through efficient framing, including tips on advanced framing, designing on two-foot modules, door and window placement, and material-efficient foundation systems.

•Setting up effective waste-handling contracts with subcontractors.

•Specific information on which construction wastes can typically be recycled and how to manage those wastes on the job site, including a discussion of how wastes can be handled (self-haul, job-site separation, commingled recovery, etc.).

•Various new ideas on waste management, such as on-site reuse of certain wastes (chipped wood as mulch and ground drywall as a soil amendment), building material reuse centers, and cut-off waste take-back programs that some manufacturers are setting up.

Throughout the booklet are interesting statistics on the typical make-up of job-site waste (percentages of different materials) and typical costs of waste hauling, along with profiles of how various home building companies have been handling wastes. A useful appendix is provided as well.

Published March 1, 1997

(1997, March 1). Residential Construction Waste Management: A Builder's Field Guide. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/newsbrief/residential-construction-waste-management-builders-field-guide

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