Editorial: Innovation and lean practices for sustainable construction project management; emerging technologies, strategies and challenges
Mina Najafi,
Moslem Sheikhkhoshkar,
Farzad Rahimian
Abstract:The construction sector, representing a significant portion of the global economy, has been pivotal in delivering successful complex projects like skyscrapers and undersea tunnels (McKinsey, 2020). Despite its scale and achievements, the industry has struggled with limited productivity gains and inefficiencies, including frequent cost and time overruns and a considerable environmental impact due to high resource and energy consumption (Rodriguez Trejo et al., 2024;Sheikhkhoshkar et al., 2023). Over the previou… Show more
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