24th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction - Boston, Massachusetts, USA - 2016

Project Alliances and Lean Construction Principles

Brendan K. Young1, Ali Hosseini2 & Ola Lædre3

1MSc Candidate, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, +47 944 31 715, [email protected]
2PhD Candidate, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, +47 913 09 166, [email protected]
3Associate Professor, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, +47 735 94 739, [email protected]

Abstract

There is a trend in the construction industry of adopting more and more relational type contracting methods, for example, project alliancing. In addition to this trend, there is increasing adoption of the lean construction principles. This paper explores the inherent relationship between project alliancing and lean construction in an attempt to highlight the similarities between this project delivery method and the lean methodology. Based on the literature studied and the performed interviews, this study shows that alliancing does in fact inherently align with some key lean construction principles. Particularly in the area of customer focus, culture and people, waste elimination, and continuous improvement. An understanding of how and where alliancing aligns with lean can lead to a better insight into how the model can be improved. Such knowledge could be useful to practitioners looking at incorporating more efficiencies into the alliancing model by introducing lean concepts

Keywords

Alliancing, Lean Construction, Project Delivery Method, Contract, Value

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Young, B. K. , Hosseini, A. & Lædre, O. 2016. Project Alliances and Lean Construction Principles, 24th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction , -. doi.org/

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