Waste management in maintenance works / Nettlyne Pol

Maintenance works was one of the important works in maintaining the functionality of a property. In building maintenance, major waste produce are bricks, concrete, timber, building finishes, scrap metal and glass. Various type of building maintenance works that can produce wastes. Building maintenan...

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Main Author: Pol, Nettlyne
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/109423/1/109423.pdf
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/109423/
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Summary:Maintenance works was one of the important works in maintaining the functionality of a property. In building maintenance, major waste produce are bricks, concrete, timber, building finishes, scrap metal and glass. Various type of building maintenance works that can produce wastes. Building maintenance activity include hacked, dismantle, repairing, installing new materials, reconstruct and extension of building. This waste also would be the major of waste issues from the maintenance works. The issues of maintenance waste can be various factor can cause large amount of waste that have been contribute by the maintenance works. Waste minimization is very important in order to reduce construction wastes that usually dump into dumping site. Implementation of proper waste management is very important to minimize waste in maintenance works. The scope of the study is covers the person responsible in construction waste from building maintenance works. The area of the study is limited to residential building that under Local Authority of Subang Jaya to study the waste management in maintenance works. The study was carried out by interviewing, questionnaire has been distributed and observing on the selected site. From the study, the construction waste was managed by the appointed contractor by the Alam Flora Sdn Bhd.