Lean Construction is a methodology based on the management of construction projects. It aims to maximize the value of the final product and reduce losses, that is, reduce the time that is invested for each process that has no value for the final product. We tell you more so you can better understand Lean Construction.
There are factors in the construction industry that generate losses: resource management, unreliable delivery times, unskilled labor, collaboration between different teams. That is why it should be important how the project is managed.
The origin of Lean Construction
It is a process that is based on the Lean Production used by Toyota during the oil crisis of 1973. The Japanese company developed a production system able to manufacture higher quality engines with shorter delivery times and with a lower cost. The production process not only affects the production but also the design department.
7 concepts to understand Lean Construction and how it helps to reduce losses
We could say that Lean Construction helps to:
- Improve productivity
- Reduced costs during execution
- Increase in product quality
- Reduction of delivery times
- Meeting customer needs
- Collaboration among all the agents involved in the construction: promoters, architects, engineers, industrialists, health and safety control, operators, …
- Quality control of the product.
It is basic to understand the needs of the client but we must also know the organizational system of the company and how the information and workflow is transmitted. Another of the bases of the Lean Construction is to identify all the activities of work and to eliminate or to reduce the less important ones. The fourth base would be to eliminate excess of materials and of overproduction and finally to perfect the production, that is to say, to standardize processes.
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