PhD student wins national award for research on 'Best waste management'

Monday, May 11, 2015 Press Office
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PhD student Jan Gottsche (centre) from Oranmore, Co Galway has won ‘Best Waste and Resource Management' presentation at the recent Environ 2015 conference in IT Sligo.

The research is co-funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and Carey Developments Ltd under the Cleaner Greener Production Programme.

The aim of the project is to develop a construction-phase resource efficiency toolkit for the Irish construction sector. This has involved close collaboration with industry (Carey Developments Ltd and BAM Building Ireland) through GMIT's academic-industry collaborative framework.