26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction - Chennai, India - 2018

https://doi.org/10.24928/2018/0280

Sources of Waste on Construction Site: A Comparison to the Manufacturing Industry

Koichi Murata1, Algan Tezel2, Lauri Koskela3 & Patricia Tzortzopoulos4

1Associate Professor, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Chiba, JAPAN, [email protected]
2Lecturer, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, [email protected]
3Professor of Construction and Project Management, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, [email protected]
4Professor, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, [email protected]

Abstract

The wastes of the supply chain should be reduced to achieve the stabilization of construction operations in lean-based construction management. The aim of this paper is to investigate the communication related sources of waste on construction worksite when compared to the manufacturing industry. The methodology used involves several observations of Japanese construction worksites and interviews with worksite managers and executives of some construction companies, and public institutions, and participation at forums for exchanging practical construction experiences conducted over the last few years. Two main results are obtained. The first one details the three peculiarities of construction, specific customer, site production, and temporary organization as described in prior research. The second one proposes a structural model to depict wastes caused by temporary organization, one of the three mentioned peculiarities. These findings contribute to better understanding of the peculiarities of construction in view of applying lean techniques, and to broadening the practitioners’ viewpoint by providing a guideline to gain the capability of a sharp and systematic understanding of their worksite.

Keywords

Lean construction, waste of production flow, waste of organization

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Murata, K. , Tezel, A. , Koskela, L. & Tzortzopoulos, P. 2018. Sources of Waste on Construction Site: A Comparison to the Manufacturing Industry, 26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction , 973-981. doi.org/10.24928/2018/0280

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