Abstract
China is in a development period of urbanization construction, while its environment is threatened by an increasing amount of construction and demolition (C&D) waste. Due to the excessive pursuit of profits and a general lack of environmental awareness of stakeholders, illegal behaviors such as illegal dumping universally exist in the waste disposal process. Meanwhile, supervision departments face many challenges in collaborative management and decision-making, which lead to inefficiencies in C&D waste supervision and management in China. To address the above challenges, we propose an informatization scheme integrating multiple technologies, which will contribute to real-time monitoring of illegal behaviors in the waste disposal process, accurate data collection for evaluating the performance of stakeholders, and the enhancement of the collaboration between supervisory departments. A case study of the Ningbo Construction Waste Transportation Supervision System is introduced to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed scheme; results show that the total number of illegal cases has decreased from 510 to 89 per year since the system was put into operation.
Highlights
China is in a development period of urbanization construction
This study proposed an informatization scheme integrating multiple technologies for construction and demolition (C&D) waste supervision and management in China, which will contribute to real-time monitoring of the waste disposal process for identifying potential illegal behaviors, accurate data collection for performance evaluation of the stakeholders, and data sharing between supervision departments for enhancing their coordination
In the early 1990s, the European Telecommunication Standards Association proposed the Global System for Mobile Communications standard based on digital signals [33], which marked the birth of the 2nd Generation (2G) mobile communication system
Summary
China is in a development period of urbanization construction. With the advancement of urbanization and shanty town transformation, urban buildings are being newly built, renovated, expanded, and demolished, which produces billions of tons of construction and demolition (C&D) waste every year [1]. Hopkins and Hawking [18] proposed an IoT-based scheme for a large logistics firm to improve driver safety, save operating costs and reduce environmental impact In their approach, remote monitoring centers receive the real-time sensor data from the vehicles, capturing the likes of speed, location, braking, and engine data to send proactive alerts to drivers regarding possible upcoming hazards, while camera-based technologies are adopted to improve fatigue management and capture the evidence of important driving events. This study proposed an informatization scheme integrating multiple technologies for C&D waste supervision and management in China, which will contribute to real-time monitoring of the waste disposal process for identifying potential illegal behaviors, accurate data collection for performance evaluation of the stakeholders, and data sharing between supervision departments for enhancing their coordination.
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