TY  - CONF
TI  - Investigation of the Supply Chain of Mass Timber Systems
AU  - Coelho, Rafael V.
AU  - Anderson, Aaron K.
AU  - Tommelein, Iris D.
AD  - PhD Candidate, Civil and Envir. Eng. Dept. and Project Production Systems Laboratory (P2SL), Univ. of  California, Berkeley, CA, USA, rvcoelho@berkeley.edu, orcid.org/0000-0003-3298-3622
AD  - Director of Innovation, Swinerton Inc., San Diego, CA, USA, aaron.anderson@swinerton.com, orcid.org/0000- 0003-2307-8516
AD  - Distinguished Professor, Civil and Envir. Eng. Dept., Director, Project Production Systems Laboratory (P2SL),  University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, tommelein@berkeley.edu, orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-6596
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/06/26
T2  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
C3  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
CY  - Lille, France
SP  - 824
EP  - 835
DO  - 10.24928/2023/0254
SN  - 2789-0015 (ISSN)
AB  - How well production systems and their supply chains are designed, configured, and managed affects the delivery of construction projects. Industrialized Construction (IC) and mass timber present a shift from traditional project delivery: they are reshaping existing supply chains and creating new ones within the construction industry. The rapidly increasing number of mass timber projects in North America and the emergence of mass timber supply chains bring the need to study and seek ways to design and improve the production systems that deliver customer value by means of such projects. Accordingly, this paper presents an exploratory case study that describes the characteristics of the mass timber supply chain in North America and the major steps in the process of designing and delivering a mass timber structural system for a multi-story residential building. In addition, we present a list of recommendations for designing and delivering mass timber systems.
KW  - Mass timber
KW  - supply chain management
KW  - industrialized construction
KW  - off-site construction
KW  - production system design.
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/2181/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/2181
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -