TY  - CONF
TI  - A Nigerian Cased-Based Study of Non-Value Adding Activities and Their Reduction in Concrete Paver Production
AU  - Aka, Adefemi
AU  - Emuze, Fidelis
AD  - Lecturer, Department of Building, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria, aka.femi@futminna.edu.ng, orcid.org/0000-0002-5926-9843
AD  - Professor, and Head, Department of Built Environment, Central University of Technology, Free State, South Africa, femuze@cut.ac.za, orcid.org/0000-0001-7714-4457
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/07/06
T2  - Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
C3  - Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
CY  - Berkeley, California, USA
SP  - 817
EP  - 827
DO  - 10.24928/2020/0005
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - Waste is responsible for certain production problems in construction. The negative impact of waste has spurned its reduction related studies. However, previous studies have not addressed the impact of waste on the production of concrete pavers in a factory. This paper thus reports on a case-based study that was conducted in selected concrete pavers’ (CPs) factories in Nigeria to investigate the various waste in the production process. Typical forms of waste that were discovered in the study are excessive procurement of materials, unnecessary delay, not meeting up with the daily production schedule and over curing of concrete pavers. The initial results calls for the adoption of lean practices that will reduce waste and improve production outputs in the factories. There is a major scope for the use of Kanban, JIT, and other lean tools in the case production settings.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - concrete pavers
KW  - process
KW  - production pull
KW  - waste.
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1754/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1754
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -