Why development and construction are very harmful to environment?
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Explanation:nvironmental protection is an important issue in developed and developing countries (Tse, 2001). Construction is not an environmentally friendly process by nature (Li et al., 2010). Levin (1997) indicated that building construction and operations have a massive direct and indirect effect on the environment. Ijiga et al. (2013) stated that identifying the impacts of construction project on the environment is a task that needs to be accomplished to realize an effective environmental.
Shen et al. (2005) claimed that construction is a main source of environmental pollution, compared with other industries. Li et al. (2010) agreed with Shen (2005) and maintained that any typical construction process involves using various construction equipment's and natural resources and generates many pollutants. Several writers (Morledge and Jackson, 2001; Ball, 2002; Chen et al., 2004; Lam et al., 2011; Zolfagharian, 2012) summarized these pollutants as noise, air pollution, solid and liquid waste, water pollution, harmful gases, and dust. Furthermore construction projects have become one of the driving forces for the national economy, whose energy consumption, environmental emissions, and social impacts are significant (Chang et al., 2011).
It has been reported that very few contractors and private developers spend efforts in considering the environment and developing the concept of recycling building materials (Lam, 1997), because most of them ranked completion time as their top priority and pay little attention to the environment (Poon et al., 2001). Zolfagharian (2012) concluded that the level of knowledge and awareness of project participants, especially project managers, with regards to environmental impacts of construction processes needs to be enhanced. Gangolells et al. (2011) agreed with Zolfagharian (2012) at this point and claimed that enhancing the identification of the major environmental impacts of construction processes will help to improve the effectiveness of environmental management systems. Unfortunately developing countries are suffering from the limited scientific data about the impacts of building materials and technologies on the environment and it is difficult to make informed choices aiming at reducing such impacts (Pittet and Kotak, 2009). This study aims to assess the environmental impacts due to construction projects activites in Gaza Strip and to propose some ideas in curbing down these adverse impacts