The document provides 6 tips for controlling construction waste to reduce costs: 1) get suppliers on board with waste management practices, 2) produce a site waste management plan (SWMP), 3) use alternative planning if SWMPs aren't used, 4) involve suppliers fully at the operational level, 5) communicate regularly with suppliers, and 6) monitor waste management across the supply chain. It emphasizes the importance of collaboration across the entire supply chain to reduce waste and costs.

1. Cost, Time and Compliance in Your Construction
Supply Chain - 6 Ways to Control Waste
From planning to tracking progress on your construction project, don’t let waste add to your
construction cost problems. We offer 6 top tips on how to manage the cost of construction waste
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2. Our cost-efficient waste management tips can help
you increase your margins, but to achieve this your
entire supply chain needs to pull together…
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3. Get the Right
Suppliers On Board
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4. Put waste management best practice
at the heart of your tender proposals.
Make your expectations absolutely
clear, so sub-contractors take your
waste management strategy seriously.
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5. Produce a Site Waste
Management Plan
(SWMP)
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6. The standard format of the SWMP is also likely
to be familiar to your supply chain partners.
An SWMP is a great way of communicating to
your supply chain partners how to use resources
more efficiently and comply with regulations.
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7. Use Alternative
Planning Methods if
SWMPs Aren’t Used
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If your company doesn’t use SWMPs, make sure you put together a plan
that you can share with your supply chain partners. It should identify
responsibilities clearly, and give an outline of all waste management facilities.
A materials management plan will help you reuse material and
cut down the cost of construction waste throughout the chain.

9. Involve Your Supply
Chain Fully at
Operational Level
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Involving contractors and sub-contractors in developing solutions - rather
than dishing instructions out to them - can help get everybody on board.
You can then use targets and rewards to incentivise
suppliers to make more responsible decisions about waste.

11. Communicate
Regularly with Your
Supply Chain Partners
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This should start at the top and extend across
the entire supply chain, filtering through
design to procurement and sub-contractors.
It’s important to communicate waste reduction
objectives and benefits at the earliest stages
of a project, and regularly thereafter.

13. Monitor Waste
Management Across
the Chain
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Recording and monitoring
the cost of construction waste
is much easier if you share
data across the supply chain.
It is also invaluable for suppliers and
sub-contractors as they work with
you on implementing your site waste
management plans.

15. “We work hard to engage the whole supply chain,
from designers through to sub-contractors and
materials suppliers, to reduce the production of waste
at source through better design, improved packaging
and better control of materials on site. We have been
rolling out design for resource efficiency workshops,
working with clients and design teams to do this at
the earliest stage possible on projects.”
Leading construction company, BAM, on the value of collaborative working.
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16. Construction is under
scrutiny for its waste
management practices.
Communication and
collaboration is key to
encouraging supply
chains to employ
best practice.
A waste management
plan is effective in
helping reduce waste.
It should include ways
of collecting and
monitoring data.
Takeaways:
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