TY  - CONF
TI  - Work Structuring for Flow
C1  - Dublin, Ireland
C3  - Proc. 27th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
SP  - 311
EP  - 322
PY  - 2019
DO  - 10.24928/2019/0140
AU  - Garcia-Lopez, Nelly P.
AU  - Fischer, Martin
AU  - Alarcón, Luis F.
AD  - Project Director, Grupo Galopa, Bogotá, Colombia, +57 305 297 7320, ngarcia@grupogalopa.com
AD  - Kumagai Professor of Engineering and Director of the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, Stanford University
AD  - Professor, Department of Construction Engineering and Management, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, +56 2 2354 7165, lalarcon@ing.puc.cl
AB  - Achieving smooth production flow has been one of the main objectives underlying lean manufacturing and construction. To achieve production flow, field managers rely on work structuring methods to enable them to structure activities and flows. Current work structuring methods enable field managers to structure activities, but they do not explicitly represent all seven construction flows or their movement through the project. Hence, field managers rely on their intuition and tacit understanding of flow sequencing, which can cause communication problems between stakeholders resulting in delays and productivity loss. This paper presents a work structuring method that allows field managers to explicitly represent construction activities, flows, and flow movement through the project. The work structuring method was tested prospectively at three construction sites with different scopes and planning methods. The work structuring method allows field managers to generate activity and flow-based schedules to plan and control the project. Furthermore, it improves stakeholder understanding of the plan by visually representing activities’ and flows’ interdependencies.
KW  - Work flow
KW  - work structuring
KW  - flow integration
KW  - production management
KW  - lean construction
PB  - 
T2  - Proc. 27th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
DA  - 2019/07/03
CY  - Dublin, Ireland
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1645/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1645
N1  - Export Date: 19 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -