TY  - CONF
TI  - House of Cards – A Simulation of Lean Construction Principles
AU  - Pollesch, Paul
AU  - Rovinsky, Alexander
AU  - Alvarado III, Raul
AU  - Alves, Thais da C. L.
AD  - Civil Engineer Corps, United States Navy. Currently enrolled as a graduate student at San Diego State University. paul.pollesch@gmail.com
AD  - Civil Engineer Corps, United States Navy. Currently enrolled as a graduate student at San Diego State University. arovinsky@sdsu.edu
AD  - Graduate Student, San Diego State University, raul3rd@gmail.com
AD  - Associate Professor, J.R. Filanc Construction Engineering and Management Program, Dept. of Civil, Constr., and Env. Engineering, San Diego State University, USA, talves@mail.sdsu.edu
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/07/09
T2  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Heraklion, Greece
SP  - 373
EP  - 380
DO  - 10.24928/2017/0212
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - The "House of Cards" simulation was developed to stimulate discussion and improve the application of lean production concepts (5S, flow, waste, kaizen, transparency, and collaboration) to construction engineering and management. It is a simple, scalable, hands-on exercise that enables a facilitator to lead teams to intuitively grasp lean concepts and their benefits to construction processes. The simulation requires minimal resources for each team: 3-4 players, a deck of playing cards, a timer, and a playing surface. “House of Cards” presents six phases of gameplay, and progresses from a worst-case scenario to an optimized ideal. The objective is to play the cards as quickly as possible to construct a 13-story building. As in construction, there is a logical sequence of work required. Lower floors must be built before upper floors, structural work must precede mechanical, and mechanical must precede finish work. This simulation was developed with a construction project context, but can easily be adapted to other industries. The analogies can be tailored to meet other industrial processes, and the floors can be changed to different parts of assembly or production lines.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - simulation
KW  - continuous improvement
KW  - 5S
KW  - flow improvement.
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1376/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1376
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -