Reducing waste to landfill: A need for cultural change in the UK construction industry

Saheed O. Ajayi; Lukumon O. Oyedele; Olugbenga O. Akinade; Muhammad Bilal; Hakeem A. Owolabi; Hafiz A. Alaka; Kabir O. Kadiri

doi:10.1016/j.jobe.2015.12.007

Reducing waste to landfill: A need for cultural change in the UK construction industry

Saheed O. Ajayi
, Lukumon O. Oyedele^*
, Olugbenga O. Akinade
, Muhammad Bilal
, Hakeem A. Owolabi
, Hafiz A. Alaka
, Kabir O. Kadiri

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	185-193
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Building Engineering
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2015.12.007
Publication status	Published (VoR) - Mar 2016

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The authors would like to express their sincere gratitude to Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board – TSB) and Balfour Beatty PLC for providing financial support for the research (under “Rethinking the build process”), through application No: 22883–158278 and file reference No: 101346.

Funders	Funder number
Balfour Beatty PLC	101346, 22883–158278
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board

Keywords

Collaboration
Construction innovation
Construction waste
Culture
Innovation diffusion
Landfill
Make-do waste
Procurement
Reworks
Waste behaviour

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