INVESTIGATION OF MATERIAL WASTE INCURRED IN THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AT KARBALA PROVINCE IN IRAQ

Construction waste is continually increasing due to everlasting need of new building and infrastructure development projects. This has become one of the major environmental problems all over the world. According to the European Union Was te Strategy, construction waste is considered as one of the priority waste streams. This research aims at finding out waste percentages of construction materials at the local construction industry in Karbala. Data of ten major construction materials are extracted from past records of thirty finished projects. In addition, a field study is employed to measure wastes of the same construction materials from six under construction projects.