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Vol. 1 No. 4 (2025): Vol. 1 No. 4 (2025)

Empirical Evidence from Egypt on an Integrated Framework for Reducing Construction Waste

  • Ezzat Othman
  • John Ebohon
Submitted
May 28, 2026
Published
2025-12-20

Abstract

Construction and demolition waste (C&DW) is a
major problem in the construction industry since it is
produced at different stages of a project. The issue
that this waste has caused is widespread, ever-
present, and will remain for a long time. This study
used a quantitative method in two phases to assess
the problem and provide workable answers. In the
first phase, 360 construction organisations in Egypt
were randomly chosen to participate in an online
survey that assessed the effect of six primary
variables on C&DW reduction (C&DWR). Here are
the six primary factors: law (LG), green building
practices (GBPR), materials procurement models
(MPMO), green building measures (MPMR), culture
and behaviour (CB), and awareness (AW). In order to
aid Egypt's vision 2030, the second phase included
creating a unified framework for C&DWR using
multivariate statistical analysis using the structural
equation modelling (SEM) method. According to the
findings, C&DWR in Egypt are favourably impacted
by these six variables. The research also showed that
GBPR has the best performance rate at 92.169 and
the greatest importance value at 0.293. Of the six
criteria, CB's performance is the worst at 72.08, but
its significance value is 0.238, making it the second
most important. In line with Egypt's Vision 2030, this
document offers concrete suggestions on how the
government and the construction industry can lessen
the C&DW.