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caadria2021_013 |
| authors |
Haeusler, M. Hank, Butler, Andrew, Gardner, Nicole, Sepasgozar, Samad and Pan, Shan |
| year |
2021 |
| title |
Wasted ... Again - Or how to understand waste as a data problem and aiming to address the reduction of waste as a computational challenge |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2021.1.371
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| source |
A. Globa, J. van Ameijde, A. Fingrut, N. Kim, T.T.S. Lo (eds.), PROJECTIONS - Proceedings of the 26th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 1, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Online, Hong Kong, 29 March - 1 April 2021, pp. 371-380 |
| summary |
The global construction industry is the single largest consumer of materials on the planet. Of that material consumption anywhere between 10-20% will end up in landfills as waste. Currently, there are three approaches to tackle this problem - reduce, reuse, and recycle. Concentrating purely on the challenge of reducing waste this research aims to address the problem of waste in the construction industry by addressing it in the preliminary design stage. It does so by asking the research question if computational design offers opportunities towards lean construction or to achieve Zero Waste by understanding waste as a data management challenge. For our research materials are specified in databases outlining geometrical and quantitative information either in material supplier databases (homepage) or in architecture and construction databases via Revit or Grasshopper. Consequently, one can collect via web scraping, investigate via databases, inspect and compare via Grasshopper and Python these databases to understand if one can transform data into information towards material use and consequently into knowledge on waste production and reduction. This investigation, its proposed hypothesis, methodology, implications, significance, and evaluation are presented in the paper. |
| keywords |
Construction industry; waste reduction; databases; web scraping; computational design |
| series |
CAADRIA |
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