This book collates the main research developments around Lean Construction over the past
25 years with contributions from many seminal authors in the field. It takes stock of …

This paper is written in the light of the papers for the 12th annual conference in the
International Group for Lean Construction. It tries to establish a brief overview of the …

This paper presents a personal historic view on lean construction, referring to the application
of lean thinking to the delivery of capital projects in the architecture-engineering-construction …

Since the introduction of Lean Construction, implementation of Lean Construction method,
tools, and thinking has been a challenge. The success of Lean Construction is evident, but …

ABSTRACT Since the 1940s, Lean Production principles have evolved and were
successfully implemented by Toyota Motor Company. Toyota strived to work towards the …

Lean Construction has existed in its own right for more than ten years. At the same time the
five lean principles as outlined by Womack and Jones have gained a firm foothold in the …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate the history of dissemination and use of
lean concepts in construction and potential challenges for continued use, as application of …

Purpose–Better integration of project processes has often been identified as the key issue
regarding construction performance improvement. In some countries lean construction has …

The emerging concept of lean construction is concerned with the application of lean thinking
to the construction industry. The ideas of lean thinking seem set to dominate the UK …

During the past several decades, the manufacturing and service industries significantly
increased their levels of productivity, quality, and profitability through the application of …