We can interpret the waste material in construction as loss or loss of material resources, time (by looking at labor and equipment), and also capital, this is caused by activities that require costs, either directly or indirectly, but do not add value at all. construction service products. This research compares the material waste that occurs in 2 project case studies, namely the XYZ factory construction project, and the supermarket building project in Jakarta, and compares the causes of material waste in the two projects. The research methodology is by obtaining secondary data from each project and conducting a questionnaire to find out the comparison of the causes of material waste in the two projects. The most waste in the construction of the XYZ factory was: column work at 34%, the second largest was floor slab work at 10% and the third rank was 6% for ground slab main building work while the most supermarket waste building was Steel structure with a percentage of material remaining 14.5765%, concrete Fc 32 F/A with a percentage of remaining material of 11.5912% and iron in diameter 25 with a percentage of remaining material of 9.1921%. The causes of waste in the two projects are different from one another. Even though there are 3 similarities in the causes of waste material.