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Lean construction / edited by Luis Alarcón.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Rotterdam ; Brookfield, VT, USA : A.A. Balkema, 1997Description: xi, 497 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9054106484
  • 9789054106487
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.45624 22
LOC classification:
  • TH438 .L38 1997
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Lean production in construction -- What do we mean by lean production in construction? -- Lean production theory: Moving beyond 'can do' -- Pattern transfer: Process influences on Swedish construction from the automobile industry -- The knowledge process -- Identifying and monitoring key indicators of project success -- Modeling waste and performance in construction -- Characterization of waste in building construction projects -- Lean construction and EPC performance improvement -- Implementing lean construction: Reducing inflow variation -- Implementing lean construction: Stabilizing work flow -- Implementing lean construction: Improving downstream performance -- Identification of critical factors in the owner-contractor relation in construction projects -- Fast or concurrent: The art of getting construction improved -- Factors affecting project success in the piping function -- Construction supply-chains: Case study, integrated cost and performance analysis -- Rapid construction as a change driver in construction companies -- A process approach to design for construction -- Continuous improvement in construction management and technologies: A practical case -- Lean manufacturing of construction components -- Lean productivity and the small private practice -- Lean production productivity improvements for construction professions -- Toward construction JIT -- Building as never before -- Schedule compression: A case history -- Ultra fast-track project delivery: 21st century partnering and the role of ADR.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 338.45624 LEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A456616B

Papers presented at the 1st-3rd Conferences on Lean Construction, held, resp., in 1993 in Espoo, Finland, 1994 in Santiago, Chile, and 1995 in Albuquerque, NM.

"Collection of the work developed by members of the International Group on Lean Construction (IGLC) during the last three years"--P. ix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Lean production in construction -- What do we mean by lean production in construction? -- Lean production theory: Moving beyond 'can do' -- Pattern transfer: Process influences on Swedish construction from the automobile industry -- The knowledge process -- Identifying and monitoring key indicators of project success -- Modeling waste and performance in construction -- Characterization of waste in building construction projects -- Lean construction and EPC performance improvement -- Implementing lean construction: Reducing inflow variation -- Implementing lean construction: Stabilizing work flow -- Implementing lean construction: Improving downstream performance -- Identification of critical factors in the owner-contractor relation in construction projects -- Fast or concurrent: The art of getting construction improved -- Factors affecting project success in the piping function -- Construction supply-chains: Case study, integrated cost and performance analysis -- Rapid construction as a change driver in construction companies -- A process approach to design for construction -- Continuous improvement in construction management and technologies: A practical case -- Lean manufacturing of construction components -- Lean productivity and the small private practice -- Lean production productivity improvements for construction professions -- Toward construction JIT -- Building as never before -- Schedule compression: A case history -- Ultra fast-track project delivery: 21st century partnering and the role of ADR.

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