Publication detail

WATER CONSUMPTION IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

NOVÝ, M. NOVÁKOVÁ, J. WALDHANS, M.

Original Title

WATER CONSUMPTION IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Water in general and especially drinking water, is becoming an increasingly scarce commodity in the Central Europe region due to the climate change. For a human, water is a bare necessity of life. The necessary amount of water to maintain human life is several litres a day. However, in a modern way of life, daily water consumption is usually over 100 litres. This amount accounts only for the personal consumption. To ensure the operation of national economy, consumption must be much higher. There are two ways how to provide sufficient amount of water. The first option is to increase the resources but that is very expensive for the Czech Republic which is situated “on the roof” of Europe. The only source of water is rainfall, which should be captured on the territory and gradually released when needed. The second option is to reduce water consumption, use it more efficiently and the reuse of water - recycling. Industrial production is a huge consumer of water. This also includes construction industry with a number of technological processes that cannot function without water. In addition to the technological consumption, water is used for personal hygiene purposes (toilets, washrooms) and environmental protection (washing the machinery, dust reduction, fire protection). The aim of this paper is to quantify water consumption during new construction activities and to indicate how to reduce total water consumption within the construction project management.

Keywords

project management, construction production, water consumption in the construction industry, water saving

Authors

NOVÝ, M.; NOVÁKOVÁ, J.; WALDHANS, M.

Released

19. 8. 2019

Publisher

International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference

Location

Bulharsko

ISBN

978-619-7408-86-7

Book

SGEM 2019

Edition number

1

ISBN

1314-2704

Periodical

International multidisciplinary geoconference SGEM

Number

19

State

Republic of Bulgaria

Pages from

935

Pages to

943

Pages count

14

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT158113,
  author="Martin {Nový} and Jana {Nováková} and Miloš {Waldhans}",
  title="WATER CONSUMPTION IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS",
  booktitle="SGEM 2019",
  year="2019",
  journal="International multidisciplinary geoconference SGEM",
  number="19",
  pages="935--943",
  publisher="International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference",
  address="Bulharsko",
  doi="10.5593/sgem2019/5.3/S21.118",
  isbn="978-619-7408-86-7",
  issn="1314-2704"
}