Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan a waste management strategy.
- Current relevant state, territory and council requirements for managing and minimising building waste are identified.
- Relative costs and savings associated with strategies to minimise waste are calculated and negotiated with client.
- Effective communications are established with the architect, designer, engineer and other relevant professionals to ensure project plans incorporate waste minimisation strategies.
- Relevant Australian standards are consulted to identify the implications of waste minimisation strategies for the conduct of the building project.
- Waste management strategy to support the building and construction project is developed.
- Manage materials procurement to minimise waste.
- Building and construction materials are evaluated to identify high quality and more durable materials that will extend the life of the structure and simplify its future extension and refurbishment.
- Recycled materials are used where appropriate and with regard to regulatory and standards' restrictions.
- Procurement specifications are developed that seek to minimise packaging waste.
- Manage the building process to reduce waste.
- Demolition practices are determined and used to increase the recovery of materials for recycling and reuse.
- Strategies are adopted to minimise the volume of site excavation and other materials that are disposed of in landfill.
- Litter abatement strategies are adopted on site.
- Safe and environmentally effective disposal of unavoidable waste is planned and implemented.