Impact of the Construction Waste on the Cost of the Project

Construction is a vital connection to the infrastructure and growth of industry in India. Building roads, bridges and other constructed facilities play an important role in shaping society's future. Now days the increased economic as well as urbanization in India have lead into extensive construction activities that generate large amount of waste material in construction projects resulted into environmentally unfriendly and costly to project budgets. So the management of construction waste plays important role in the cost of project. This paper aimed to estimate the cost of construction waste and its impact on cost of project and also attempts to suggest recommendations to the construction industry to maximise the profits and minimise the construction waste.