- Title
- Spoil Handling in Australia
- Creator
- Rahimzadeh, Ali; Tang, Waiching; Sher, Willy
- Relation
- 17th International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium. Proceedings of 17th International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium (Cagliari, Italy 30 September - 04 October, 2019)
- Relation
- https://cisapublisher.com/product/proceedings-sardinia-2019/
- Publisher
- CISA Publisher
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- The rapid expansion of metropolitan areas as well as population growth drive more and more construction projects. Residential, commercial and infrastructure projects produce a considerable amount of excavated soil each year. The traditional trend in handling this material consists of transporting the excess to landfills. However, in the past, spoil production was considerably less than today, necessitating responsible handling practices. Responsible in this context means increasing the quantity of material reused and decreasing the transportation of spoil to landfills. This has raised the question of how the reuse of soil can be enhanced through spoil supply chain management in Australia. This paper presents the first part of a study aiming to increase the reuse the spoil in Australia through effective supply chain management. The construction environment is highly dynamic in nature. The balance between spoil production and demand varies from day to day, being subject to the emergence of new entities and the elimination of others. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to provide an answer to the research question "how the reuse of spoil can be enhanced". A systematic literature review process was chosen to be the best fit for this agenda. The review identified four main focuses concerning spoil handling. Reusing spoil has been identified as one of the main focuses as well as spoil supply chain. A conceptual framework is envisaged, consisting of the relationships between the stakeholders and their specific inputs. The framework is to be developed to consider the characteristics of spoil handling in Australia, its supply chain management features as well as the dynamic nature of the construction environment. The framework will provide a foundation for planning, control, and execution in the supply chain in spoil management and will help stakeholders with their decision-making processes and subsequently increase the reuse of spoil.
- Subject
- spoil; spoil handling; spoil management; excavated soil; excavation; supply Chain
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1460145
- Identifier
- uon:45874
- Identifier
- ISBN:9788862650144
- Language
- eng
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