The idea of sustainability can help us to enhancing the quality of life for the people to live in a healthy environment by improved social, economic and environmental conditions. Sustainable construction and demolition waste management (SC&DWM) includes all the process of collection, separation, reuse, recover, recycle, transportation and disposal of waste and supervision the after-care of disposal sites. Construction wastes have become a demanding issue in many developed and developing countries and have adverse effects on the environment, economy and social aspects. Thus, this research aims to study on sustainable construction waste management practices in the case of building construction projects in Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia. A critical analysis of different barriers affecting SC&DWM and strategies to overcome them was presented based on a combination of literature review and qualitative research methods. Also, a conceptual framework of SC&DWM implementation was developed. The established framework is expected to assist stakeholders to collaborate with the government in construction waste management implementation. The use of observation and interview with senior construction professional personnel of construction firms were used to collect the research data. Also, focus group discussions was used for validation purposes and to collect further research data. Finally the collected research data were analyzed in a qualitative research approach. Based on the result, the current construction waste management practice is poor. However; there is waste reuse and recovery practices in some construction projects. The major barriers to hinder for the adaptation of SC&DWM were lack of government initiative, low contractors‟ awareness, low public awareness, lack of waste management facility, lack of regulation of municipality, poor works efficiency, gap of contractual agreements, unavailability of market condition, no factory use Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste as raw material and lack of contractor willingness‟. The suggested SC&DWM strategies establishes a new team responsible for waste management work in municipality and within projects; develops waste management infrastructure; apportion investment in recycling and recovery of construction waste; education and training of worker to increase efficiency and provide rules and regulations with enforcement.