13th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction - Sydney, Australia - 2005

Pull-Driven Construction of High-Rise Apartment Buildings

Rafael Sacks1, Maxim Goldin2 & Zvika Derin3

1Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Civil and Env. Eng., 840 Rabin Building, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel, Phone +972-4-8293190, Fax +972-4-8293190, [email protected]
2Graduate Student, Faculty of Civil and Env. Eng., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel, [email protected]
3Head, Project Planning and Control Dept., Danya-Cebus Construction Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel.

Abstract

Construction of high-rise apartment buildings is made complex by the myriad possibilities for clients to adapt their apartments to suit their individual needs and preferences; traditional construction planning practice of progressing upwards from floor to floor breaks down in the face of the arbitrary sequence in which clients finalize their decisions. The results are long cycle times for delivery of completed apartments and corollary high levels of work in progress (WIP), budget and schedule overruns, and general dissatisfaction with the process on the part of the contractors, subcontractors and the clients. This paper presents a management model that applies lean thinking to this problem. The model was first formulated in theory, then tested using a management simulation game, and subsequently developed for practical application by a dedicated team composed of university researchers and construction company personnel. It is now being tested in a large construction company.

Keywords

Pull-driven flow control, High-rise buildings, Residential construction

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Sacks, R. , Goldin, M. & Derin, Z. 2005. Pull-Driven Construction of High-Rise Apartment Buildings, 13th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction , 217-226. doi.org/

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