Abstract
Volume III includes the six month progress reports written during the past four years to document the research progress. Nonetheless, most of the content of these six months reports is incorporated into the thesis body so it is repeated information and not essential to read. This document is the first literature review for the Engineering Doctorate (EngD) project named "Using waste-to-energy technologies as part of building energy systems - an analysis of engineering, environmental and financial impacts." This literature review tries to provide background information on relevant topics for the EngD as well as a description of the current state of the art in policy, technologies and environmental issues and knowledge. Some of the topics that this literature elaborates are the environment, the use of resources (goods and energy), waste and its management and finally construction industry and building services. This literature review tries to establish a base that could be used as a starting point for future research during the EngD.