Reducing the environmental impact and improving the efficiency of construction transport

Reducing the environmental impact and improving the efficiency of construction transport

Vrijhoef, R.

Architecture and The Built Environment

Management in the Built Environment

2015-11-25

Last few years the hindrance, accidents, pollution and other negative side effects of construction projects and namely construction transport have become an issue particularly in urban areas across Europe such as in London, and in the Netherlands as well, including the cities of Utrecht, Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Municipalities have issued new legislation and stricter conditions for vehicles to be able to access cities and city centres in particular and accessibility of older and polluting vehicles. Considerate clients, public as well private, have started developing tender policies to encourage contractors to reduce the environmental impact of construction projects. Contractors and third party logistics providers have started applying consolidation centres. These developments have shown considerable reductions of number of vehicles needed to deliver goods and to transport workers to site. In addition these developments have led to increased transport efficiency, labour productivity and cost reductions on site as well as down the supply chain. Besides these developments have led to increased innovations in the field of logistics planning software, use of ICT , and handling hardware and equipment. This paper gives an overview of current developments and applications in the field of construction logistics in the Netherlands, and in a few project cases in particular. Those cases are underway as part of an ongoing applied research project and studied by using an ethnographic participative action research approach. The case findings and project results show initial advantages how the projects, the firms involved and the environment can profit from the advancement of logistics management leading to reduced environmental impact and increased efficiencies of construction transport.

construction transport
environmental impact
logistics management
productivity
transport efficiency

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IBEA Publications Ltd

978-1-326-47951-0

Proceedings of the Joint CIB Symposium Going North for Sustainability: Leveraging Knowledge and Innovation for Sustainable Construction and Development, London South Bank University, London, UK, 23-25 November 2015

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conference paper

(c) 2015 Vrijhoef, R.