Iranian Company Designs Smart System to Reduce Construction Waste Management Cost Up to 90%
“Smart Construction waste management system" is designed in accordance with laws and standards. It carries out construction waste management processes in a mechanized smart way. Three integrated modules, including the web-based version of soil and construction waste management, the web-based version of the contractor and the citizen, and the android-based application of inspectors are designed for the system.
Mojtaba Mortazavi, the managing director of the Iranian knowledge-based company that has designed the smart system said that among the goals of establishing an intelligent management system for construction waste are: diverse, complete and fast reporting from various practical aspects for managers of waste organizations, creatiing an up-to-date database of member and non-member vehicles and contractors, connection with the software system of municipalities in various departments such as urban development (known as the ‘Sara’ system), unifying the processes of waste management organizations in this sector in accordance with the laws and regulations, utilizing the legal authority of waste management organizations, creating a platform for cooperation between members of the contracting parties and clients with the waste management organization, creating easy access for contractors and building owners to obtain permits.
Creating a comprehensive database of contractors and vehicles, control and guidance of the system with different attitudes while maintaining its integrity, issuance and payment of fines within the system, the possibility of obtaining the activity license for contractors and owners online, the reporting and data analysis system and the possibility of obtaining dynamic parametric reports, easy control and supervision of patrol agents and inspectors, recording reports and following up on violations online using portable devices such as mobile phones, tablets, assigning authorized unloading locations, obliging the contractors and their member vehicles to properly implement the regulations and provisions of the contract at the waste disposal sites, two-way exchange of information between the central system and other the systems, and the use of SQL Server analysis service for reporting in order to save time are some of the advantages of the system, he added.
“In the cities where this system has been launched, it has as many users as the number of citizens who are engaged in construction activities,” he went on to say.
He stated that the construction waste system does not have a similar foreign-made rival, adding that in other countries, people personally apply and pay for the processing of these wastes on some sites specifically designed for that purpose, so designing a system for managing the construction waste in Iran became relevant. Anyway, there are similar software in Dubai, Brazil and the USA, which are actually Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and they are different from the system we have designed."
“There is approximately 120 million tons of construction waste, more than 40% of which is dumped illegally. Using this system, the annual cost of cleaning construction waste would be reduced by 90%, which is a very significant amount,” Mortazavi noted.
“The number of people that are directly hired through this system is currently 21. However. in different cities where we have launched this system, we have recruited people separately. For example, in the Central city of Shiraz alone, we have 40 inspectors,” he concluded.
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