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RFID Supported Cooperation for Construction Waste Management

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Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering (CDVE 2011)

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The severity of construction and demolition waste problem has been observed around the world in recent years. Therefore, management of construction waste is important worldwide. Currently, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is a growing technology which has been applied in many areas including the construction industry. This paper discusses the application of RFID technology for construction waste management, which is lacking in research in the construction industry. This paper presents a proposed RFID-based approach to facilitate the cooperation among on-site contractors, pick-up truck companies, and recycling companies. Waste pick-up and recycling could therefore be enhanced. Some reusable construction wastes like high strength cables are valuable and prone to be stolen. The proposed system could help the inspection of these construction wastes by using the automatic tracking capability of RFID technology.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

    Jack C. P. Cheng & Lauren Y. H. Ma

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Balearic Islands, 07122, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

    Yuhua Luo

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Cheng, J.C.P., Ma, L.Y.H. (2011). RFID Supported Cooperation for Construction Waste Management. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6874. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23734-8_20

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