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Project NoWaste - Linking Lean Construction to a Low-Carbon Economy

Project Background The construction sector contributes to about 10% of the UK GDP, but a lot of that is waste. The Environment Agency estimated that between 15-20% of all construction materials delivered to construction sites end up for disposal in skips.

This has a significant impact on CO₂emissions as those skip loads also represent a waste of the embedded energy in the construction materials and makes a mockery of the efforts by the UK Government and the Carbon Trust in getting upstream suppliers to reduce their unit energy cost of production.

Project NoWaste is designed to address the issue of energy use on construction sites (including embedded energy) and linking this to Lean Construction and Waste Reduction.


Project Outcomes

Tools to help construction teams to reduce waste by using lean construction techniques.

• Process Mapping Tools

• Site organisation - 5S

• Waste Management training for NVQ in Waste Management Operations

• Waste Spotting and Problem Analysis

Project NoWaste won a National Green Apple award in 2005. The project was awarded National Champion in Construction Waste Management.

Timetable
Project NoWaste started in the Autumn of 2003 and was completed in December 2004.

Current Status
Project NoWaste Phase 2 is on-going as a partnership between Greenfile Developments and Bovis Lend Lease only.

Contents from the original Project NoWaste have been updated and re-published as part of Project Sus'D contents.

Available Downloads

Case studies on waste reduction and lean construction practices

• Project W8 Case Study (a PDF file of the NVQ project)

• Chelsea Bridge Wharf Case Study (a PDF file of the NVQ project)

Project NoWaste Partners
Click here to find out more about the organisations behind Project NoWaste.

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