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The construction industry has significant environmental impacts due to for example, raw materials extraction and associated deforestation, air pollution, resources consumption, noise pollution, and high generation of waste (Oke et al. 2019). Even though many of these impacts cannot be eliminated completely, yet, with the right approach they can be reduced (Ijigah et al. 2013). To identify what and how, environmental risk assessment is essential. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a proactive systematic approach to evaluate the process to identify and reduce possible failures and emission hotspots (Vazdani et al. 2017). It can be used as an environmental risk assessment tool to analyse the environmental effects caused by errors, deficiencies, and technical issues (Ralcheva 2019). FMEA is mainly used as a quality management tool, but recent studies suggested the significance of using FMEA as a decision tool for companies that want to take environmental and ecological issues seriously (Ahsen et al. 2022). This presentation reports on the adoption of FMEA and how it can help to assess environmental risks in the construction sector in developing countries. The motive behind implementing FMEA is not only to decrease operational failures, but to provide a checklist of the environmental impacts and how these can be controlled (Ralcheva 2019). Many studies discussed the potential of FMEA in the field of environmental risk assessment, but only few proposed the practical implementation of this approach (Roszak et al. 2015). Current statistics of the environmental impact of the construction sector in developing countries raises the concerns and urgent need for a systematic assessment, such as FMEA. Hence, a conceptual model is presented that demonstrated the framework and practical implementation of FMEA to identify and assess environmental risks. We share our experiences and data, but we also want to learn and obtain some feedback from the industrial ecology members community
Author(s): Albasyouni W, Heidrich O, Kamara J
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: 11th International Conference on Industrial Ecology (ISIE2023) of the International Society for Industrial Ecology.
Year of Conference: 2023
Pages: 782
Print publication date: 02/07/2023
Acceptance date: 07/04/2023
Publisher: International Society for Industrial Ecology
URL: https://is4ie.org/mediafiles/ISIE2023_Leiden_Book_of_Abstracts.pdf
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