What is the best way to minimize waste and disruption on a construction site?

This apart , you may have to hire construction personnel with good experience in construction activities . This is necessary to prevent cost over run and complete the project on time. The post completion period is integral for handing over the completed project with minimum of mainteanance.

I think one has to be very precise and detailed when you are delivering the materials on site and maintain the Materials Reconciliation so that it will help you to know the wastage and it's limitation.

The space for all these activities is very important. The stake holders as well as executing agency must abide by the coordinators set in the pre-construction meeting.

I see waste in two areas: 1) The actual procurement of your building materials 2) Poor storage of these materials. For the first, if you do not understand how to complete a proper take off, you will end up with 5-7% waste materials. This can be as simple as ordering to board length required, or thinking through how to use that cut off material. On our sites? We are down to 1% or less for waste. We reuse everything. The second is storage and the timing of material drop off. Everywhere I look, I see jobsites littered with uncovered OSB, drywall, lumber. I see it scattered and site bins full of trashed new lumber. A competent site foreman will have those materials organized on pallets, covered or in shelters out of weather.

If you are a general contractor who is implementing a waste management plan on your construction site, you must communicate that information to your trades during the procurement process, and emphasize the importance of ensuring the plans are communicated to their field crews. There are opportunities for recycling of products like wood and reinforcing steel, but expectations have to be passed on to the field crews and recycling bins have to be located near the work. There are also many opportunities for recycling concrete and asphalt, many of which involve keeping the recycled product on the site. These should be investigated early in the planning stages.

Just to point out that these measures should be implemented in the site offices too where only rarely recycling bins are provided.

Suppliers and Subcontractors which North America represent more than 85% of the value of contractor often have their own systems

A separate team of about 2 to 3 personnel may be constituted to over see waste management and clear the site. A provision of engaging sub contractors may reduce on site burden.

Always check local regulations for dust and noise control requirements, and communicate these requirements to your trades. Many communities have dust control requirements, which often involves suppressing dust on the site with water. This costs money and takes time, equipment, and personnel. This must be planned in advance. It is also common to have limitations on working hours to avoid disrupting surrounding residents with construction noise. This can have scheduling impacts as work hours may be limited.

Noise and dust pollution is incendiary construction projects. However, noise level can be reduced by innovating the equipment . The dust pollution can also be reduced by using spray of water

Safety and health of workers is of prime importance. Dust can be controlled by using spray of water installed somewhere near the working equipment or machinery.

4D planning (using the 3D Building Information Model and adding scheduling data) can be a big help in planning site logistics over time, and visualizing constraints that may exist in the future, as the progress progresses. We had a great discussion about this on a LinkedIn Live Stream that you can view here: https://www.dhirubhai.net/events/beamsandcolumnswithjimandshaun-7074854916854300672/comments/ Another tip is to check the area for schools. Avoid major deliveries or plan for additional coordination if your deliveries will impact a school zone! Failure to do so increases the possibilities for disruption and can greatly increase your risks.

To minimize disruption at site , a flow chart of site traffic and deliveries must be discussed and complied with. This is essential for smooth flow of work and help in completion of scheduled activities of the project.

If nice to have the monies in an estimate for these costly issues. But companies have to obtain the work in a competitive market.

The best and most practicable is to out source the routes for maintaining and regulating traffic. They may have to mark the territories for passage of vehicles

The full life cycles of the materials must be considered. The choice of suppliers and materials should be made considering the supplier's sustainability standards and processes. On the market we see more and more options of recycled material (example recycled aluminium) at competitive prices. All these routes should be considered.

Uninterrupted work must continue so that ever day targeted work is completed. For that your sites are marked and fixed for the movements. Workers are trained to pick holes in the site movements planning and must be allowed to air their grievances

We have a new innovation that will reduce the waste of bricks blocks and cement , We are currently wasting in excess of 60 million bricks and contributing to over 28 million kgs of co2 into the atmosphere and our patented product has been tested to withstand wind on newly constructed walls

One of the minimal effort to minimize waste is: sofisticated plans and WBS. poor WBS undoubted leads to huge amount of waste.