Importance of Sustainable Concrete Formwork System

Abstract:

Construction industry is seen to be able to play a bigger role into a sustainable society by offering sustainable construction. As the premier construction material across the world, concrete has a major determining role on the effects, good or bad, of construction on the environment, meanwhile the formwork system is one of the important construction methods in building construction, which eventually will lead to more sustainable construction. In this context, this study focuses on the importance of the formwork system and its influence on achieving sustainable construction. The study aims to identify the basic sustainability objectives that considered responsive to formwork system. Using questionnaire survey distributed among construction experts, the economic category had been selected as the most important factor that considered respond to the formwork system, and the environmental category comes second while social comes the third. Furthermore, fifty percent of the respondents agree that type of formwork system effect on the sustainability of the construction project and about forty percent was moderate about it. Determination the objectives of sustainability that respond to the formwork system, which covers all activities and processes related to the formwork system can assist developers and others stakeholders to evaluate the performance of the system in order to make enhancement to the system.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 598)
• Pages: 360-365
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.598.360
• Online since: November 2012
• Authors: Mohammed Taher Ahmed*, Rozana Zakaria, Mohamad Zin Abd. Majid, Ismail Mohd Affendi
• Keywords: Construction, Formwork System, Sustainability, Sustainable Construction, Sustainable Formwork

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