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A DISCOURSE ON LEAN CONSTRUCTION IN AFRICA, USING A SUPPLY CHAIN EXAMPLE
Journal of Construction Project Management and Innovation, 2017 discourse is defined as a unit of speech or writing longer than a sentence. It is about knowledge and its construction within a group or domain. A discourse therefore tends to focus on how a particular phenomenon is represented within a social group ...
Fidelise EMUZE
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Barriers to Adopting Lean Construction in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises—The Case of Peru
Buildings, 2022 The competitiveness in the construction industry is leading companies to implement the Lean philosophy to improve project management and prepare to begin the adoption of Construction 4.0. However, this implementation generates several barriers, depending
Cristian Huaman-Orosco +2 more
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Journal of Construction Project Management and Innovation, 2017 Poor performance of construction projects is a re-occurring problem in Nigeria. Production flow waste (ranging from waiting time, material handling and over- production, among others) may be partly responsible for this problem. Meanwhile, very little is
Emmanuel Itodo DANIEL +2 more
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Lean and BIM Implementation Barriers in New Zealand Construction Practice
Buildings, 2022 The construction sector is lagging behind other industries in terms of efficiency and value achievement. Several building sector initiatives are introduced to improve productivity and project value enhancement.
Ayuba Jerry Likita +4 more
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Major Barriers Assessment of Lean Construction Application in Construction Projects Delivery
CSID Journal of Infrastructure Development, 2021 The construction sector is facing challenges of meeting client’s value and end-user satisfaction, and this situation is worsened by customers’ dynamic demands for quality and speedy delivery without loss of value.
Wiliam Nwaki +2 more
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Introducing the concept of first and last value to aid lean design: learning from social housing projects In Chile [PDF]
, 2011 Value for the customer through efficient production processes is a fundamental principle of Lean. In Lean Construction, Value to customers is largely delivered through project planning and control activities only.
Pasquire, C, Salvatierra-Garrido, J
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Lean Construction Implementation in the Saudi Arabian Construction Industry
Construction Economics and Building, 2017 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has witnessed a huge increase in construction during the last two decades. However, many projects experienced time delays, cost overruns and the generation of massive amounts of waste.
Jamil Ghazi Sarhan +3 more
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Implementing and continuity of lean construction using discrete event simulation [PDF]
Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering, 2019 The success of lean principles in manufacturing and the benefits arising from its use is one of the main motivations for adopting lean principles in construction .The lean construction strives for the same goals as lean production, namely to eliminate ...
Shahin Dabirian +1 more
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The interaction of lean and building information modeling in construction [PDF]
, 2010 Lean construction and Building Information Modeling are quite different initiatives, but both are having profound impacts on the construction industry. A rigorous analysis of the myriad specific interactions between them indicates that a synergy exists ...
Bhargav A. Dave +23 more
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Applying lean thinking in construction
Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2013 The productivity of the construction industry worldwide has been declining over the past 40 years. One approach for improving the situation is using lean construction.
Remon Fayek Aziz, Sherif Mohamed Hafez
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