The objectives of the department are mentioned below:

1. Planning and designing building network to provide optimized connectivity to residential and non-residential govt. buildings of different departments.

2. Construction, renovation, upgradation and maintenance of residential and non-residential govt. buildings of different departments.

Before the year 1982, Road Construction, Building Construction and Rural Engineering Organisation were all under the Public Works Dept. (PWD). In the administrative view, Public Works Dept. was split into three different departments named: Road Construction Dept., Building Construction Dept. and Rural Engineering Organisation Dept. by the Cabinet Secretariat and Co-ordination Department's Memorandum No. CS-2-M2-10157/80-878, Patna dated 16th March, 1982. Its head-quarter is located at Project Bhawan, Dhurwa, Ranchi - 834005.