SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS

Asset Classes

Focus Area

Custodial and Waste

Topic

Renovations and Construction

Question #

P6.1 – Waste Management in Construction

Question

Is a Construction Waste Management Program in place to minimize waste impacts during renovation and construction?

Applicability

All asset classes 
Owner/landlord occupied building
Tenant occupied building

Answer & Scoring

  • Yes = 2 points
  • No = 0 points

Max of 2 points

Requirements

  1. Develop and implement a Construction Waste Management Program that covers:
      • Responsible parties, including the building team’s training requirements
      • Plan to sort discarded materials into corresponding waste bins for separation, reuse/recycling and haul off-site by a verified hauler
      • Details on how construction waste materials are handled, how waste is tracked, and diverted/garbage volumes reported
  2. Program must be signed by the building manager, dated within the past 12 months
  3. Where construction services are managed and delivered by the tenants and their service providers, the owner or landlord must provide information to the tenants on how to implement a Construction Waste Management Program

This Construction Waste Management Program is required regardless of whether the owner/landlord has control over the tenant space as the program should be utilized if the owner/landlord needs to renovate the space during tenant change-over.

Documentation

  • Building-specific Construction Waste Management Program

Suggested Lead

In-house, with third-party support

Value

  • Construction, demolition, and renovation activities can produce large amounts of waste. Some waste cannot be properly collected and managed with operational waste at the building
  • Develop a Construction Waste Management Program to be shared with contractors to ensure proper waste management strategies are followed at the building during construction and renovation activities
  • Implement construction specific waste management strategies, to reduce the overall generation of construction waste at the project and divert waste from landfills to suitable end-facilities

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Description

Renovation, construction, and demolition projects create a lot of waste materials (about 30% of Canada’s disposal) and need to be effectively managed to minimize the adverse impact on the environment.

These materials are largely inert, very heavy and can pose unique challenges in source separation because most materials are combined and difficult to recycle. This is further complicated because the Project Managers for C&D projects work in a separate department and interdepartmental collaboration is minimal.

Without effective communication and planning from the initial project design stages, waste minimization and diversion are nearly impossible.

References

None

Adapted BB 3.0 Question

Question 08.01.02 – Is a program in place at the building to minimize construction, renovation and/or demolition waste being sent to landfill?