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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Overview of the construction industry -- Background on industry performance -- The advent of lean construction -- The productivity challenge -- Productivity and construction -- Importance of productivity -- Productivity trends in the United States -- Need for new approaches to construction -- Productivity ratios -- Reasons for low productivity -- Categories of construction -- The parties involved in construction -- Project delivery methods -- Forms of contract |
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Strategies for improving construction performance -- 2 Foundations of lean construction -- Defining lean construction -- Lean theory -- The Toyota experience: building on Ford's principles -- Origins of lean construction -- Theory of production -- Adoption of relational contracting -- Lean design and construction -- Deficiencies in traditional construction methods -- Philosophical differences between lean construction and traditional construction -- Barriers to applying manufacturing methods to construction -- Characteristics of lean construction -- Systems perspective of lean |
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Reducing or eliminating waste -- Other categories of waste -- Lean construction fundamentals -- 3 Lean in design -- Part A: Overview and description of the Lean Project Delivery System and its components -- Structure of the Lean Project Delivery System (LPDS) -- Part B: Lean in the design phase of projects -- The lean design phase -- The Last Planner® System in design -- Team work planning -- Set-based design -- Designing for lean operations -- Target-value design -- Validation studies |
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Part C: Examples of lean design applications -- JE Dunn Construction Company, Inc., Boulder Associates Architects, Agile and Scrum approaches -- Part D: Sustainability and Commissioning considerations -- 4A Lean in the construction phase of the LPDS -- Supply chain management and lean construction -- Kanban and lean construction -- The Last Planner® System in construction -- Creating a support system for managing the lean process -- Process steps in the Last Planner® System of production control -- Master schedule -- Constraint analysis -- Removing constraints -- Activity definition model |
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Prefabrication and modularization -- 4B Location-based planning and controlling methods Olli Seppänen -- Introduction -- Location-based planning -- Tasks, location-based quantities and duration calculations -- Flowline and takt visualizations -- Location-based controlling -- Controlling in LBMS -- Controlling in takt -- Location-based methods with the Last Planner® System -- Training requirements -- The LBMS and takt approaches compared -- Conclusion -- 5 Information and communication technology/building information modeling (BIM) -- Introduction -- ICT -- a description |
| Summary |
"Lean Project Delivery and Integrated Practices in Modern Construction is the new and enhanced edition of the pioneering book Modern Construction by Lincoln H. Forbes and Syed M. Ahmed. This book provides a multi-faceted approach for applying lean methodologies to improve design and construction processes"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Originally published: Modern construction. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2011 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Lincoln H. Forbes, PhD, PE, CM-Lean, specializes in Lean Project Delivery and lean management systems. A professional engineer, he has over 35 years' experience in quality/performance improvement as well as facilities design and construction management support. Dr. Forbes is a member of the Lean Construction Institute (LCI) and the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC). He holds the CM-Lean credential from the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). He is a fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), and is the founder and past president of their Construction Division. A senior member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), he also holds the LEED AP designation. He held senior facilities-related positions with Miami-Dade County Public Schools earlier in his career. Dr. Forbes has also served in adjunct positions in construction management programs at East Carolina University, Florida International University, and Drexel University. He is a principal consultant for Harding Associates, Inc. in Miami, Florida. He holds PhD, MBA, and MSIE degrees from the University of Miami. He has authored several papers, columns, book chapters and books; he has served as a reviewer for the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, and the Journal of the Built Environment Project and Asset Management (BEPAM). Syed M. Ahmed, PhD, is a full Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Construction Management at East Carolina University (ECU) in Greenville, North Carolina. He was Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Construction Management of the College of Engineering & Computing at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami. He was also an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at FIU. Dr. Ahmed has over 35 years of international experience in industry, teaching, research, and consulting in the United States, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Mexico, and Jamaica. He is the author of several books and has published extensively with over 160 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and conferences in his areas of expertise. Dr. Ahmed is currently on the editorial board of more than six international journals and serves as the associate editor of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Construction Engineering & Management and the Built Environment Project and Asset Management (BEPAM) journal |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 12, 2020) |
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Building.
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Lean manufacturing.
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Construction industry -- Management.
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Construction industry -- Cost control.
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Project management.
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constructions (sculpture)
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ARCHITECTURE / Reference
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ARCHITECTURE / Project Management
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Operations Research
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Building
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Construction industry -- Cost control
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Construction industry -- Management
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Lean manufacturing
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Project management
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ahmed, Syed M. (Syed Mahmood), 1960- author.
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| LC no. |
2019033717 |
| ISBN |
9780429458989 |
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0429458983 |
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9780429859335 |
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0429859333 |
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0429859341 |
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9780429859359 |
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042985935X |
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9780429859342 |
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