Residential Training: Greening the Construction Sector For C&D waste management and dust control – CSE
Last date to apply April 28, 2023
Dates: 9th-12th May, 2023 (Participants will be required to gather in India Habitat Centre, Delhi on 8th afternoon from where they will be taken to AAETI)
Course will begin from 9th morning
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable. The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities. On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth. Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications.
The current construction chain including construction and demolition (C&D) waste management, site management for dust control, planning and development of related infrastructure among others in most cities is resource-inefficient and environmentally insensitive. As per latest source apportionment studies, dust potential of the construction sector and other associated sources was responsible for up to 41 per cent of PM10 generation in Delhi.
To curb these environmental impacts, the environment ministry issued several guidelines for dust control from C&D activities. C&D waste management rules 2016 were also notified. However, as per CSE’s assessment, implementation of these and earlier regulatory interventions has been very weak. The problem is not limited to Delhi – it can be witnessed across the different cities enlisted under Swatch Bharat Mission 2.0 and the non-attainment cities (NAC), in India. In extreme circumstances, banning construction activities altogether for extended periods of time has emerged as a measure, which has a severe economic impact. A combination of actions to green the entire C&D waste chain is the need of the hour.
CSE invites applications for an on-site course on this critical subject. The course aims to equip construction managers/developers and urban local bodies (ULBs) with the necessary technical knowhow for efficient C&D waste management and dust mitigation, both at the city and site levels. Areas ranging from regulatory frameworks to planning for infrastructure to progress reporting protocols as required under the National Clean Air programme (NCAP) and other monitoring frameworks for these cities will be covered in the training. The course includes exposure visits to provide on-field experience.
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
- Rules/guidelines for C&D waste management and dust control measures — their respective adherences/non-compliances and case studies from non-compliant cities.
- Legal, policy and administrative frameworks of C&D waste management including roles and responsibilities of actors involved.
- Waste estimation and extrapolation at city and site levels.
- Planning for infrastructure such as collection points, transfer stations, transportation routes, vehicle fleets, processing technologies, recycling site identification etc.
- Technology and techniques for onsite and offsite waste reduction/recycling
- Impact assessment and self-declaration responsibilities for the construction sector
- Effective construction management at sites for mitigation of dust/air pollution and waste management.
- Reporting and micro-action planning requirements for clean air based on various legal/administrative needs
- Good practices from Indian cities working on C&D waste and dust control including exposure visits.
- C&D waste management status of 131 non-attainment cities in India as per the city micro action plan.
- The value and trade chain mapping of C&D waste by the informal sector.
Who Can Apply
- Officials from urban local bodies and other government departments, pollution control officials, regulators, architects, engineers, planners, builders/developers, site managers, students and researchers.
- Course fee includes tuition fee, external expert lecture sessions, training materials, Boarding and lodging, Transport from New Delhi to AAETI and back.
Course Fees Rs 28,000 (sponsorships and discounts available subject to satisfactory fulfilment of application form *
Sayani Sen
Research Associate
Sustainable Buildings and Habitat Programme
CSE, 7278204216,
sayani.sen@cseindia.org
COURSE DIRECTOR
Rajneesh Sareen
Programme Director
Sustainable Buildings and Habitat Programme, CSE
rajneesh.sareen@cseindia.org
