Mapping the Policy-Economic-Technological Barriers in Construction & Demolition Waste: Cause–Effect Insights from a DEMATEL Analysis

The construction activities are done to improve the construction infrastructure, which impacts the social, economic, and environmental sustainability factors. The construction and demolition (C&D) waste management is a big issue that impacts the global economies due to rapid population growth, leading to construction waste generation, thereby affecting sustainable development goal achievement. The construction and demolition waste management have shown barriers to construction management, but very few researchers have explored the intersection through regulatory, financial, and infrastructural challenges, thereby constraining construction waste management initiatives. The research aims to bridge the knowledge gap on construction wastes, including the construction activities that need to be done to improve construction infrastructure, thereby impacting social, economic, and environmental sustainable developments. Adequate knowledge on construction wastes, construction activities to improve construction infrastructure, challenges, barriers to construction wastes, construction wastes, cause-effect diagram, decision-making trial evaluation laboratory, is also explored to obtain the construction wastes management barrier values to understand the results, thereby improving construction wastes management challenges.