TY  - CONF
TI  - Lean-digital-place integration for circular housing design
AU  - Awwal, Samira
AU  - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia
AU  - Fatahian, Esmaeel
AU  - Hill, Catherine
AU  - Mishra, Rakesh
AU  - Fleming, Leigh
AD  - Senior Lecturer, Department of Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom, s.awwal@ljmu.ac.uk , https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7771-1511
AD  - Professor, Design and Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom, patricia.tzortzopoulos@ntu.ac.uk  , https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8740-6753
AD  - Research Assistant, Department of Engineering & Technology, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom, e.fatahian3@hud.ac.uk , https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6984-5113
AD  - Research Assistant, Department of Engineering & Technology, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom, c.hill@hud.ac.uk , https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9305-0594
AD  - Professor, Department of Engineering & Technology, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom, r.mishra@hud.ac.uk , https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1620-3238
AD  - Professor, Department of Engineering & Technology, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom, l.t.fleming2@hud.ac.uk , https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6962-8686
ED  - Hamzeh, Farook
ED  - Poshdar, Mani
ED  - Garcia-Lopez,, Nelly P.
ED  - Gan, Vincent
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/06/22
T2  - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34)
C3  - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34)
CY  - Singapore, Singapore
SP  - 1395
EP  - 1406
DO  - 10.24928/2026/0137
SN  - 2789-0015 (ISSN)
AB  - Circular economy strategies are increasingly promoted to reduce material waste, embodied carbon, and lifecycle environmental impacts in the built environment. However, practical adoption in housing remains limited due to fragmentation across process, information, and regional infrastructures. Existing studies emphasise design strategies or digital tools but do not appropriately consider the production system conditions required for circular workflows. A structured narrative literature review was conducted across three domains: Lean Construction, digital construction technologies (including BIM, Digital Twins, and AI), and circular economy. Based on this synthesis, the paper proposes a Lean-Digital-Place (LDP) framework that conceptualises circularity as an emergent property of aligned production processes, digital information infrastructures, and regional material ecosystems. The framework extends Lean Construction thinking from the project-level toward lifecycle and regionally embedded production systems. A research agenda and evaluation indicators are proposed to guide empirical validation and support the development of scalable circular housing systems.
KW  - Circular economy
KW  - BIM
KW  - Digital Twins
KW  - AI
KW  - Lean Construction
KW  - lifecycle analysis.
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/2459/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/2459
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -