Main Article Content
Abstract
Material management is a major problem in a construction project for many years. In construction field construction materials consumes 50 to 60 % of overall cost of a project. Nowadays, successful material management of construction has to be based on the innovative techniques. This paper work helps to explore material management techniques used in present days and identify the factors that affects material management. This project also involves applying ABC analysis for a residential building. The material management literatures and some material management techniques are studied. A questionnaire survey is used to identify the current practices in material management. The main recommendation of this research is using material management techniques to determine the required quantities of materials for reducing the time and errors.