Contractors' perception on construction waste management case study in the City of Bandar Lampung

Abstract

Construction industry in the City of Bandar Lampung is a big industry and at an increasing trend. Industrial construction generates considerable amount of construction waste where the volume reaches four times of the household waste. With the increased cost of waste disposal as well as the capacity of city's final waste dump site of Bakung will not be able to accommodate municipal solid waste in the near future; it is important to implement construction waste management. This paper presents the study on contractors' perception on construction waste management. The perceptions were gathered through opinion survey to contractors that carrying out new construction, renovation and demolition projects in the City of Bandar Lampung in 2017. The respondents are professionals in construction projects that were selected based on purposive sampling represented contractors from both private and government owned companies. The questions asked consist of questions with open and closed questions. The result expecting from this study is to understand how the characteristics of project impact the benefits of implementing a construction waste management plan. Therefore, maximizing these factors can maximize the benefits.