TY  - CONF
TI  - Bottom-up Strategy for Lean Construction on Site Implementation
C1  -  Heraklion, Greece
C3  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
SP  - 325
EP  - 331
PY  - 2017
DO  - 10.24928/2017/0304
AU  - Zanotti, Nero Lenotti
AU  - Maranhão, Flávio Leal
AU  - Aly, Vitor Levy Castex
AD  - Civil Engineer and M.Sc. Candidate, Escola Politecnica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, nerozanotti@outlook.com
AD  - Professor, Escola Politécnica, Department of Construction Engineering, Universidade de São Paulo; Professor, Universidade São Judas Tadeu, São Paulo, Brazil, flavio.maranhao@poli.usp.br
AD  - Professor, Escola Politécnica, Department of Construction Engineering, Universidade de São Paulo;, São Paulo, Brazil, vitor.aly@usp.br
AB  - This paper shows a Lean Construction method being implemented with a bottom-up strategy, using spontaneous improvement as a tool for the implementation. To introduce the changes, all workers were trained on how to manage and identify the 8 types of waste, and presented to a simplified A3 thinking approach as a problem-solving technique. 

The implementation occurred on a large infrastructure project with a total extension of 83 km, using the construction of a water pipeline as an example, studying it for six months. To measure the results, the labor productivity rate and the average production-per-day rate were introduced as performance indicators, to analyse whether the implementation was successful or not. 

By the end of the study, it was possible to observe a correlation between the number of improvements made, the labor productivity rate, and the average production-per-day rate, which implied a successful implementation of the lean philosophy.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - site implementation
KW  - kaizen
KW  - spontaneous improvement
PB  - 
T2  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2017/07/09
CY  -  Heraklion, Greece
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1399/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1399
N1  - Export Date: 24 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -