TY  - CONF
TI  - An Integrated Framework for Production and Environmental Waste Management in Construction
AU  - Alazmi, Saleh
AU  - Abdelmegid, Mohammed
AU  - Sarhan, Saad
AU  - Poshdar, Mani
AU  - Gonzalez, Vicente
AD  - PhD, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
AD  - Lecturer in Engineering Management, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, UK, M.Abdelmegid@leeds.ac.uk, orcid.org/0000-0001-6205-570X
AD  - Assistant Professor in Advanced Engineering Management, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham Dubai, UAE, s.sarhan@bham.ac.uk, orcid.org/0000-0002-0105-2350
AD  - Senior lecturer, Auckland University of Technology, School of Future Environments, New Zealand, mani.poshdar@aut.ac.nz, orcid.org/0000-0001-9132-2985
AD  - Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Digital Lean Construction, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3408-3863
ED  - Costa, Dayana Bastos
ED  - Drevland, Frode
ED  - Florez-Perez, Laura
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/07/01
T2  - Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 32)
C3  - Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 32)
CY  - Auckland, New Zealand
SP  - 1003
EP  - 1014
DO  - 10.24928/2024/0183
SN  - 2789-0015 (ISSN)
AB  - Lean construction has successfully developed and utilised several tools to minimise production waste generation in construction projects. In addition, sustainability research has contributed to improving the environmental performance of the construction industry by managing the impact of construction waste on the environment. Research on construction sustainability has been utilising some of the capabilities of lean construction tools to address environmental-related issues that are difficult to tackle using conventional approaches. Even though research in the Lean-Sustainability area has progressed over the last two decades, knowledge of Lean-Sustainability applications is still limited amongst industrial practitioners. A potential reason is the lack of an integrated approach combining lean principles and sustainability for construction applications. To address this limitation, this paper proposes a management framework that deals with both production and environmental wastes concurrently. The framework is developed by combining a lean process improvement method with an environmental management system approach. The framework is validated through interviews with experts in lean construction and sustainability to establish its theoretical contribution and practical applicability. Through this integrated waste management framework, this study contributes to the efforts of managing production and environmental wastes to deliver more efficient and environmentally friendly projects in the construction industry.
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Lean Construction
KW  - Value Stream
KW  - Production waste
KW  - Environmental waste
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/2254/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/2254
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -