Partnerships for Sustainable Development

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Partnerships for Sustainable Development

• Introduction

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Programme

• Welcome
• What is SusD?
• Why are we here?
• Waste types and causes
• Building partnerships on site
• How to work successfully
• Feedback

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• The SusD project

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What is SusD about?

• Part-funded by the DTIs Partnership at Work
  initiative
• Reducing waste on construction sites
• Promoting resource efficiency in construction
• Partnerships?
• Working together trying innovation
• Training, educating and learning together
• Sharing knowledge

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Objectives

• Reduce waste and costs in construction
• Develop a partnership framework to realise cost
  saving benefits
• Developing transferable/desirable skills
• Encourage knowledge transfer of sustainable
  development partnerships

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Partnership?

• Working together
• Main contractor and subcontractors
• Managers, supervisors and operatives
• Different trades
• Project teams
• UCATT and LORS

• Working together
• Reduce waste through
• New ideas requiring
• Problem solving which ultimately
• Improves performance
• Adds money to the bottom line

No one can do it on their ownwaste is everyone's
issue!
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Workshop Content

• What is waste?
• Why bother with waste?
• Raise awareness of waste management, waste
  minimisation and resource efficiency issues
• Encourage partnership ways of working

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Waste and the Construction Industry
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What is Waste?

• a product which is no longer used in its
  primary rolewhich the holder then intends to, or
  is required to, discard (SEPAWaste Management
  Licensing Regulations, 1994)
• Anything you paid for but did not get full value
  out of!

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Wastes in construction

• Waste can include
• Resources
• People, Effort, Money, Time
• Asset
• Materials, Tools, Plant
• Procedures
• Information
• Relations

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Waste Facts (1)

• CD waste figures for the UK vary between 72m to
  130m tonnes (Scotland produces 7m tonnes).
• Inert waste responsible for 94m tonnes
• Only 35 of CD waste is currently recycled.

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Waste Facts (2)

• For every 5 houses built, we waste 1 during the
  construction phase.
• 13m tonnes of CD waste is material which is
  delivered to site but never used ( 15-20 of all
  construction materials).
• An average UK construction site will work at 40
  efficiency!?

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Waste Facts (3)

• Construction and demolition waste equates to over
  25 of all waste produced in the UK.
• CD waste production in the UK continues to rise
  at 3 per year
• Less than 1 of new UK buildings currently use
  reclaimed materials.

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Why should we care?

• MONEY!
• Environment
• Health and Safety
• Productivity

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More than just disposal

• Cost of transportation
• Purchase cost of raw materials in skip
• Cost of production labour in manufacture of
  scrapped product
• Cost of consumables used in all products
• Lost income from not salvaging valuable waste
  streams
• Cost of disposing of reusable materials.
• Cost of using valuable storage space on-site

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Why should we care?

• Cost of wasted energy
• Cost of waste treatment
• Air emissions effluent
• Cost of recycling
• Processing energy and water
• Cost of project delays
• Lost time from managing avoidable waste

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Why should we care?

• Good housekeeping!
• Cost
• Hazard
• Pollution
• Working conditions
• Storage

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Why should we care?

• ..Workplace factors, most notably poor
  housekeeping and problems with the site layout
  and space availability, were considered to have
  contributed in half (49) of the accident
  studies..
• Source Causal factors in construction accidents
  HSE Research Report 156

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What are the causes of waste?

• Why is there waste on your site?
• Why is waste created?
• What are the causes?

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What are the causes of waste?

• Causes might include
• Unsuitable storage
• Over ordering
• Cleaning the site
• Offcuts
• Storage
• Packaging
• Rework damage
• No apparent reason!

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What can we do Waste Hierarchy

• Waste hierarchy
• Prevention (Highest priority)
• Reduction
• Reuse
• Recycling
• Recovery
• Disposal (Lowest priority)
• In theory, 1 is the highest and 6 is the lowest.
  In reality, construction traditionally views 6 as
  the easiest option, 4 5 as were doing very
  wellas much as is possible with 1 2 as
  processes which are a bit of a mysteryprocesses
  we dont have time to do even if we wanted to!

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What can we do?

• Prevent
• Store materials correctly
• Do not over order?
• Reclaim materials from which still have a use
  (either on or off site)
• Dont leave materials unprotected
• Take and use just enough materials
• Return to storage any materials unused

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What can we do?

• Reduction
• Avoid double handling less effort, less damage,
  less waste
• Check that a material is fully used before
  starting a new batch
• Keep significant offcuts for use elsewhere
• Keep materials in their packaging for as long as
  possible to protect them from damage

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What can we do?

• Reuse
• Reuse materials no longer fit for purpose?
• Reuse materials for alternative purposes
• Have a suitable storage area where materials can
  be storage for reuse
• Use offcuts where possible

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What can we do?

• Recycling
• Use pallets for temporary storage
• Segregate waste at point of source before putting
  it into tipping skips and/or rollon/offs
• Enforce waste segregation onsite.
• Label waste containers with Waste Aware
  Construction posters and colour coding

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Why is segregation important?

• If waste is segregated
• leads to lower costs
• less hazardous waste in mixed waste
• maximises potential for recycling as less
  contamination
• Enables reclaimable materials to be identified
• Easier to quantify what waste types, volumes and
  reasons for waste creation

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Recycling Transfer Station

• Recycling
• Materials to outside buyers/agents who can reuse
  our waste.
• Waste can go directly to a re-processor, such as
  a scrap metal recycler.
• Or sent to a waste
• transfer station

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Waste transfer station Caleco Edinburgh
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Waste colour coding

• Funded by the Scottish Executive
• Deliver waste awareness campaigns.
• Develop easily recognisable materials.
• Provide educational and promotional support for
  waste awareness
• SWAG promoting standardisation of terminology
  and colour coding
• www.wasteawareconstruction.org

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Waste Colour Coding
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What can you do on this site?

• Are there any practical or managerial actions
  you can take regarding waste?
• Can you eliminate waste?
• Can you reduce waste?
• Can you reuse waste?
• Can you segregate your waste?

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• Partnerships

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Why partnership?

• Definition
• A voluntary alliance between individual or
  groups who commit to working collaboratively on a
  project to pursue a common goal, and in which all
  partners contribute from their core skills and
  benefit from achieving their own, the others and
  the partnerships overall shared objectives

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What is partnership?

• Activity 1 Characteristics of partnership
• Aim
• The aim of this session is to provide
  participants with the opportunity to draw on
  their own experience to identify some of the key
  characteristics of voluntary partnership
• Learning Objective
• To understand the key characteristics of
  voluntary partnership

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Partnership characteristics

• Information Sheet 1 Some characteristics of
  successful partnerships
• Voluntary engagement
• Mutual trust
• Common vision
• Jointly agree objectives
• Complementary resources and skills
• Share of benefits risks and responsibilities
• Balance of power
• Added value to what each partner could achieve
  alone

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Cycle of partnership
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Partnership building

• Activity 2 Risk and Success Factors
• Aim
• The aim of this session is to enable participants
  to assess the feasibility of an onsite resource
  efficiency initiative / intervention / project
  idea
• Learning Objectives
• To appreciate that project ideas present risks as
  well as opportunities and may not be feasible
• To be able to identify the key factors which
  indicate that a project idea might be successful

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Partnership building

• Work Sheet 2 Risk and Success Factors

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Partnership building

• an on-site resource efficiency initiative is
  likely to succeed when
• The system is supported by all key players
• The players recognise and acknowledge that waste
  management is not a core competency
• Each player possesses skills that are crucial to
  the success of the system
• There is shared long-term vision
• The stakeholders have equitable capacity to
  negotiate
• There is access to facilitation skills
• There is a champion or catalyst
• There is an ongoing planning process into which
  stakeholders can hook
• There is an absence of a major threat e.g. a
  delay to the project
• There is a possibility of early benefits for all
  the stakeholders involved

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Partnership Building

• Components of Assessment
• Sustainable development needs The sustainable
  development needs of the project and the
  community in which it is situated are clearly
  understood and appreciated
• Stakeholder identification Identification of
  players and stakeholders involved in the project
  (and in the wider community) relevant to the
  management and eradication of waste management
  and other issues on the project including
  potential partners, protagonists and consultants
• Internal underlying interests The underlying
  interests of the facilitating partner including
  goals, objectives, motivations, fears,
  obligations and policies
• Underlying interests of other players involved
  The expectations of the other partnering players
  and stakeholders now and in the future including
  managers and staff, suppliers, customers,
  members, regulators and the local communities in
  which the project is situated

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Partnership Building

• Components of Assessment
• Room for negotiation The available room for
  negotiation based on the boundaries and limits of
  responsibility, obligations and values of the
  facilitating player
• Prevailing political conditions The willingness
  of each of the players to work with and support
  the others on the issue
• Cultural compatibility of different
  players/stakeholders Potential barriers such as
  cultural or educational differences
• Resources and competencies The competence of the
  players in question to address the issue with
  current levels and types of skills and resources
• Costs and benefits The balance of costs, risks
  and benefits and added value of effective
  relations across the community to the company

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Partnership Building

• Activity 3 Securing senior management buy-in to
  the case for developing an on-site resource
  efficiency initiative
• Aim
• This session brings together the results of the
  internal assessment and presents them in such a
  way that a rationale decision can be made about
  whether to proceed with an on-site resource
  efficiency initiative
• Learning Objectives
• To enable participants to systematically present
  the results of an internal assessment of a
  project idea in a way that assists
  decision-making
• To appreciate the factors a senior manager will
  take into account when considering whether to
  proceed with a project
• To experience the process of presenting the case
  for proceeding with a project

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Partnership Building

• Some benefits supporting the business case for
  using partnership
• Greater efficiency of production (e.g. reduced
  deays, facility breakdowns)
• Greater return on investment
• More effective meeting of compliance requirements
  for social and environmental management
• Direct cost savings in managing issues
• Enhanced reputation and competitiveness
• Evidence of competent management for shareholders
  and investors
• Improved recruitment and staff retention

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• Feedback