Web-Based Information System Development for Building Demolition Management

Abstract

The demolition of buildings produces enormous amounts of waste materials that are hardly reused or recycled and therefore result in significant waste streams to landfills. This research aims to develop a Web-based information system for promoting management methodologies for demolition projects. Instead of the waste materials exchange in current online waste material management systems, this research aims to explore the possibility of exchange of demolition projects, by which the utilization of demolished materials may be ascertained before the demolition action is actually produced. With reference of the needs and difficulties of online drawing acquisition in architecture and building discipline, an online multimedia data acquisition tool is developed to collect the drawing data of a project to be demolished. Following the introduction for developing a Web-based distributed database system, a prototyped information system is demonstrated in detail through the system environment, structure and functions.