Construction Waste Management

Green Building Index (GBI) is recognized as Malaysia’s green rating tool for building to promote sustainability in built environment and raise awareness among the construction industry players.

The GBI is very comprehensive and covers almost every aspect of construction process. However, I will focus on discussing on waste management during construction. This requirement comes under fourth category of the GBI, which is Material and Resources with sub-category of material reuse and selection, storage & collection of recyclables and construforction waste management

MR1: Materials reuse and selection

Under this category, the project is required to reused products or materials with value of at least 2% from total material cost. Examples are rubble and leftover masonry materials can be crushed on site and reused in driveways.

MR5: Storage & Collection of recyclables

In this category, the project is required to segregate their construction waste. So the project need to provide different waste bins for concrete, timber, metal etcetera. The intention is it will be easier for the waste to be send for recycling.

MR6: Construction Waste Management

This category requires the project to recycle the construction waste at least 50% from the total volume.

With proper implementation of these category, the project will be entitle for 5 GBI points. These points we call as Free points which do not require any cost to be implmented. 

Lets build more green buildings with green construction practices!

Rohani