The following words pertaining to lean construction are suggested as keywords for papers to be presented at the Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC). They are arranged under Generic Keywords vs. Themed Keywords particularly (but not exclusively) associated with each of the Conference’s research themes.

Authors of papers for IGLC Conferences are requested to select at least three keywords from this list and can add their own keywords to a maximum of five in total.

Generic Keywords

• action research
• benefits realization
• big room/obeya
• collaboration/collaborative
• complex/complexity
• concurrent
• continuous improvement/kaizen
• design science
• flow
• integration
• kanban
• Last Planner® System
• lean construction
• process
• production
• pull
• standardization
• sustainability
• transformation-flow-value
• value
• value stream
• variability
• visual management
• waste
• work flow

Themed Keywords

Contract, Cost Management

• alliancing
• cost-led procurement
• integrated form of agreement (IFOA)
• integrated project delivery (IPD)
• open book
• relational
• target cost(ing)
• transactional

Learning and Teaching Lean

• serious game
• simulation

People, Culture, Change

• action learning/research
• collaboration
• commitment
• language/linguistic action perspective
• mood
• promise, reliable promising
• trust

Prefabrication, Assembly, Open Building

• customization
• flexible manufacturing
• modular construction
• tolerance
• off-site construction

Product Development, Design Management

• Choosing by Advantages (CBA)
• set-based design (SBD)
• Target Value Delivery (TVD)

Production Planning, Control

• buffer/buffer management
• constraint analysis
• daily huddle
• hand-off
• lookahead planning
• make-ready planning
• phase scheduling
• pull planning
• time compression

Production System Design

• inventory control
• job-sequencing
• location-based management (LBM)
• logistics
• mistakeproofing/poka yoke
• takt planning (TP)
• work structuring
• work in progress/process (WIP)

Lean and Green

• sustainability
• environment

Supply Chain Management (SCM)

• modular and offsite construction
• prefabrication
• assembly
• customization
• flexible manufacturing
• modular construction
• tolerance
• off-site construction

Innovative Technology

• BIM
• VDC
• 3D printing
• AI

Mental Health

• psychological safety
• health
• safety
• quality

Theory

• theory