No Waste in Nature: Using Nature as a Model for Construction Industry

Abstract

The dominant industrial development model of presentday, based on a linear output process. During this period that lots of energy and resources are consumed, the production of waste is so much and the most of these waste can not be recycled. As a result of that, there is a rising of the environmental problems. Unlike the linear (take-make-waste) consumer model, nature trying to create completely non-waste/zero waste systems and it depends on the understanding of holistic system. To minimize the negative effects that produced by the built environment beyond the construction industry in terms of creating positive outcomes experienced the need for a paradigm shift occurs. In this context, the general aim of the study is trying to exhibit the understanding of the processes that occur in nature and how to take advantages from these process in construction industry. As a working method, natural environment and construction industries are analyzed comperatively in terms of use of materials and waste management. With a comparative study it is tried to understand that, how today's construction industry and natural processes have different points, and also what is necessaried by approach based on nature and how it is applied on building and building environment.