IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF WASTE IN CONSTRUCTION SITE BASED ON LEAN CONSTRUCTION PRINCIPLES

Indian construction industry characterized major challenges like low productivity, lack of skilled labour, time and cost overruns etc. associated with considerable waste present in the construction sites. while a few larger construction companies have starts to look into waste reduction and process improvement issues through concepts like lean construction most organizations are yet to address this issue. as a prerequisite to implementing lean principles, in which a major factor focus is on elimination of waste, it is important to understand and quantifying the amount of waste actually present in Indian construction sites. Critical waste and waste causes were identified and categorized by disseminating a questionnaire survey.