TY  - CONF
TI  - Problems in the Interface Between Mechanical Design and Construction: A Research Proposal
C1  - Singapore, Singapore
C3  - 9th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
PY  - 2001
AU  - Miles, Robert S.
AU  - Ballard, Glenn
AD  - VP Gowan, Inc., 5550 Airline Drive, Houston, TX 77076. 713/696-5491; rsmiles@ix.netcom.com.
AD  - Associate Adjunct Professor, Const. Eng. & Mgt. Program, Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng., University of California at Berkeley, and Research Director, Lean Construction Institute, 4536 Fieldbrook Road, Oakland, CA 94619. 510/530-8656; ballard@leanconstruction.org
ED  - Ballard, Glenn
ED  - Chua, David
AB  - As construction projects emerge from the traditional delivery processes to modern fasttrack forms, stress has developed in the interface between the design professional’s delivery process and effective construction production. This is no greater evidenced than at the specialty contractor level. The current attempts at fast-track team type projects remain largely a time-compressed form of the traditional processes with respect to the design-construct production flow. While many of these projects are comprised of a preselected “team” of design and construction firms, in most cases the role of the specialty contractor is limited to pricing exercises and perhaps some traditional “value engineering” suggestions during the design phases. Substantial improvements in production workflow, if any, have been generally limited to the area of cooperative construction activity sequencing and scheduling. Problems arising from this situation are illustrated and research is proposed for testing possible solutions.
KW  - Construction
KW  - fast-track
KW  - value chain
KW  - production process
KW  - pull
KW  - lean construction
KW  - delivery process
PB  - 
T2  - 9th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2001/08/06
CY  - Singapore, Singapore
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/153/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/153
N1  - Export Date: 16 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -