Sustainable Building and Integrated Construction Waste Management Challenges and Strategies for China

摘要

China's rapid march toward urbanization makes sustainable building a priority at all levels of governments. Construction industry contributes not only a great portion of economic output, but also contributes a large of portion of solid waste stream which causes the serious negative impacts towards environment and ecosystem in China. Therefore, sustainable development is of paramount importance to China's future. Hence, this paper outlines sustainable building challenges in China currently, and enlightens the importance of Sustainable Building and Integrated Construction Waste Management process through the principle of Life Cycle Design, and the interactions and synergies among BIM, sustainability building technology, which will maximally alleviate construction waste situation by way of reduce, reuse and recycle the construction waste in China.