Abstract
Construction workers’ waste reduction behaviors (CWWRBs) have been critical given that workers directly use building materials and carry out on-site construction activities. However, to date, the underlying causations of CWWRBs have not yet been well revealed. This paper thus aims to identify major factors affecting CWWRBs based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and develop a simulation model to explore the causation of CWWRBs through a system dynamics (SD) approach. Based on simulation results of three typical groups of management measures, namely, reactive actions (RAs), prioritization (P) and preventive actions (PAs), it is found that overall RAs and P are more effective in improving CWWRBs, while the effect of RAs is the most significant. Besides, RAs would be more effective in the early period of construction processes while PAs more effective in the later period. This study not only, for the first time, presents a deeper explanation of causations of CWWRBs, but also provides a model through which construction waste management policies and measures can be simulated in advance to effectively improve CWWRBs.
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