A breakfast forum highlighting ways to reduce house construction waste through supply chain management will be hosted by RMIT University on 27 June 2013.
The forum will be opened by Sustainability Victoria Director of Integrated Waste Management Jenny Pickles, and will present the preliminary findings of a collaborative research project that investigated solutions for minimizing waste.
Chief investigator and Professor of Construction Management in RMIT’s School of Property Construction and Project Management, Kerry London, said minimising landfill waste has many benefits.
“Finding a solution to minimising waste is not only good for the environment, but also offers a major cost saving for the building industry,” Professor London said.
"But one organisation can't do this alone and we have found that an integrated value chain approach is necessary to bring about change in the industry.”
A panel discussion at the forum will include eminent industry leaders: Professor London; Adam Siegel, Metricon; Rob Anderson, Australian Housing Supply Chain Alliance; Anthony Wright, Sustainability Victoria; Kristin Brookfield, Housing Industry Association.
The panel will discuss benchmarking and metrics data, reducing volume and cost of waste, strategies to lift a company’s performance, supply chain management integration implementation for companies and available innovative systems.
The research is funded by Sustainability Victoria through their Beyond Waste initiative and is conducted in partnership with Australand, Metricon, Boral, CSR, Building Commission, Housing Industry Association of Australia, FMG Engineering and the Master Builders Association.
