Application of lean principles to design processes in construction consultancy firms

Marzouk, Mohamed; Bakry, Ibrahim; El-Said, Moheeb

doi:10.14424/ijcscm101011-43-55

Cited by 12 publications

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“…In design, the identified value activities are enhanced and utilised together with the necessary non-value added activities (e.g. administration work, mandatory testing) whilst unnecessary non-value added activities such as waiting, moving and inspection are removed by appropriating flow, pull and perfection (Huovila et al 1994;Formoso et al 1998;Marzouk et al 2011). Applying lean to the value stream requires a comprehensive overview of value generation and waste reduction (Ballard 2000).…”

Section: Value Stream Principlementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Typically, flow in design relates to data and information identified to be multiple, dynamic, iterative, and concurrent making it more complex to manage as against physical materials that flow in manufacturing (Cai and Freiheit, 2011;Lostuvali et al 2012). Several researchers have proposed ways to ensure process flow such as focusing on what the next customer needs/end product (Womack and Jones, 1996;Bogus et al 2000), removal of data and information barriers (Hicks, 2007), standardisation of design elements and modularisation (Bjornfot, 2008) and use of integrated information system for automatic exchange of data in real-time (Marzouk et al 2011). It is evident that flow in design is intrinsic to human actions as emphasised by Cai and Freiheit (2011) that management and designers are the key regulators for efficient flow to generate value.…”

Section: Flow Principlementioning

confidence: 99%

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Lean Thinking for Structural Engineers

Kwofie¹,

Pasquire²

2020

Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)

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The positive transformation realised from lean concept application in the manufacturing industry has inspired many researchers to investigate and propose its adoption in Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry (AEC). The lean application in construction sector has received significant attention. Building up on previous recommendations regarding lean design and construction, this study explored lean thinking for Structural Engineers (SE) to identify new, efficient and innovative ways for executing structural designs and engineering works. The research study was based on qualitative research method using Systematic Literature Review (SLR). An overview of research works on lean applied to designs demonstrated lean to be a multi-dimensional concept characterised by different levels and therefore defied a universal definition. This paper therefore focused on the first part of the study where an understanding of lean was gained with respect to structural designs and was characterised with lean principles, techniques, processes, practices and tools to deliver value for customers.

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Section: Value Stream Principlementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Flow Principlementioning

confidence: 99%

Lean Thinking for Structural Engineers

Kwofie¹,

Pasquire²

2020

Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)

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“…As a result of the pervasiveness and impact of NVAAs, researchers have investigated how to reduce and eliminate them in the construction and production processes (Koskela 1992;Osmanu 2011;Marzouk et al 2011;Zoya-Kpamma and Adjei-Kumi 2011;Gatlin 2013;Ko and Chung 2014). However, the aspect of the manufacturing process, where projects cost can further be effectively reduced, has not been extensively covered.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Nigerian Cased-Based Study of Non-Value Adding Activities and Their Reduction in Concrete Paver Production

Aka¹,

Emuze²

2020

Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)

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Waste is responsible for certain production problems in construction. The negative impact of waste has spurned its reduction related studies. However, previous studies have not addressed the impact of waste on the production of concrete pavers in a factory. This paper thus reports on a case-based study that was conducted in selected concrete pavers' (CPs) factories in Nigeria to investigate the various waste in the production process. Typical forms of waste that were discovered in the study are excessive procurement of materials, unnecessary delay, not meeting up with the daily production schedule and over curing of concrete pavers. The initial results calls for the adoption of lean practices that will reduce waste and improve production outputs in the factories. There is a major scope for the use of Kanban, JIT, and other lean tools in the case production settings.

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“…The applicability of the technologies mentioned above has been explored in all phases of the project, individually and in integration with one another (Zhao 2017). There exists research in the domain of Building Information Modeling (Sacks et al 2010a), Simulation (Marzouk et al 2011) and Visualization (Sacks et al 2007) in conjunction to the lean construction, but the applicability of these technologies for site layout planning is understudied. The present research understands how the visualization of the process helps in adoption and implementation of lean (Rischmoller et al 2006) and can aid better coordination and collaboration among the project stakeholders by enhancing the process transparency (Song and Liang 2011).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Site Layout Planning Waste’ Typology and Its Handling Through AR-BIM Concept: A Lean Approach

Singh¹,

Delhi²

2018

26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction

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Site layout planning (SLP) aims at the efficient placement of temporary facilities on a construction site. Improper planning can lead to tremendous wastes in terms of unnecessary transport of materials and other resources around the site. A plethora of research has presented SLP as an optimization problem, but a few have focused on the wastes involved and that occur due to an improper layout of the construction site. To develop the 'SLP waste' typology, a comprehensive literature review was done, and the experts of SLP were interviewed. The identified wastes were found to be resulting due to inefficient layouts, improper coordination and collaboration among the project stakeholders and conflict of their interest. The interviewed experts highlighted the inefficiency of two-dimensional (2D) drawings and requirement of three-dimensional (3D) visualization that can aid in envisioning the future site scenarios. Therefore, utilizing Augmented Reality (AR) integrated Building Information Modeling (BIM), a conceptual tool 'AR-BIM' is proposed, and the anticipated working is briefed out in this study. The tool is under development and is expected to ease out the planning of site layouts and will aid in enabling lean, along with value generation in construction projects.

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Application of lean principles to design processes in construction consultancy firms

Abstract: Simulation modelling and Lean principles have both been applied in the construction

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

Lean Thinking for Structural Engineers

Lean Thinking for Structural Engineers

A Nigerian Cased-Based Study of Non-Value Adding Activities and Their Reduction in Concrete Paver Production

‘Site Layout Planning Waste’ Typology and Its Handling Through AR-BIM Concept: A Lean Approach

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