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Table 1

Epistemic uncertainties for QA

Stages in the RLSCs of DW	Epistemic uncertainties for QA	Description	The level of uncertainties
Stages in the RLSCs of DW	Epistemic uncertainties for QA	Description	Macro-level	Meso-level	Micro-level
Building dismantling and on-site processing	As-is conditions of the building	The difficulty in ascertaining the as-is condition of the building before dismantling			✓
	Management of contaminated/ hazardous substances	The difficulty in managing contaminated/ hazardous substances during the dismantling stage			✓
	Health and safety concerns	Fears pertaining to health and safety due to operational and external factors			✓
	Workflow uncertainties	The workflow during the dismantling stage is uncertain due to the sophisticated task variability, interdependency, and analyzability			✓
	Management of sub-contractors	The difficulty in managing and coordinating many subcontractors who engage in a building dismantling project		✓
Off-site waste processing	Product description complexities	Difficulty in understanding and satisfying the end-user requirements of reprocessed products			✓
	Human errors	Due to its highly labor-intensive nature, the entire stage is highly vulnerable to human errors			✓
	Health and safety concerns	Fears pertaining to health and safety due to operational and external factors			✓
	Workflow uncertainties	The workflow during the dismantling stage is uncertain due to the sophisticated task variability, interdependency, and analyzability			✓
	Mixed waste from demolishers	If the mixed waste is received from demolishers, the waste processor’s entire business would be at risk		✓
Building dismantling and on-site processing and off-site waste processing	Regulatory uncertainties	Failure to forecast the actions of regulatory bodies and lapses in the influence strategies employed by them	✓
	Incentivising uncertainties	Availability of insufficient useful information with the absence of incentivising by the external stakeholders of the RLSCs	✓
	Contractual uncertainties	Uninformative and lenient contracts from forward supply chain (FSC) upstream and downstream actors do not provide useful information required for the RLSCs of DW.	✓

Stages in the RLSCs of DW	Epistemic uncertainties for QA	Description	The level of uncertainties
Stages in the RLSCs of DW	Epistemic uncertainties for QA	Description	Macro-level	Meso-level	Micro-level
Building dismantling and on-site processing	As-is conditions of the building	The difficulty in ascertaining the as-is condition of the building before dismantling			✓
	Management of contaminated/ hazardous substances	The difficulty in managing contaminated/ hazardous substances during the dismantling stage			✓
	Health and safety concerns	Fears pertaining to health and safety due to operational and external factors			✓
	Workflow uncertainties	The workflow during the dismantling stage is uncertain due to the sophisticated task variability, interdependency, and analyzability			✓
	Management of sub-contractors	The difficulty in managing and coordinating many subcontractors who engage in a building dismantling project		✓
Off-site waste processing	Product description complexities	Difficulty in understanding and satisfying the end-user requirements of reprocessed products			✓
	Human errors	Due to its highly labor-intensive nature, the entire stage is highly vulnerable to human errors			✓
	Health and safety concerns	Fears pertaining to health and safety due to operational and external factors			✓
	Workflow uncertainties	The workflow during the dismantling stage is uncertain due to the sophisticated task variability, interdependency, and analyzability			✓
	Mixed waste from demolishers	If the mixed waste is received from demolishers, the waste processor’s entire business would be at risk		✓
Building dismantling and on-site processing and off-site waste processing	Regulatory uncertainties	Failure to forecast the actions of regulatory bodies and lapses in the influence strategies employed by them	✓
	Incentivising uncertainties	Availability of insufficient useful information with the absence of incentivising by the external stakeholders of the RLSCs	✓
	Contractual uncertainties	Uninformative and lenient contracts from forward supply chain (FSC) upstream and downstream actors do not provide useful information required for the RLSCs of DW.	✓

Source(s): Adopted from Wijewickrama et al. (2021a, 2022), Produced by author