Most people picture waste as the final act of a building project. The skip bins that appear once the slab is poured, the offcuts swept up at the end of a long day, the rubble carted off after a wall comes down. It reads as a problem for the construction phase, something the builder will sort out once the real work begins. That picture is incomplete. How much waste a project generates, and how much of it can be kept out of landfill, is largely decided much earlier, at the draw
