TY  - CONF
TI  - Improving Street Reconstruction Projects in City Centers Through Collaborative Practices
C1  - Lima, Peru
C3  - Proc. 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
SP  - 373
EP  - 382
PY  - 2021
DO  - 10.24928/2021/0116
AU  - Seppänen, Olli
AU  - Lavikka, Rita
AU  - Lehtovaara, Joonas
AU  - Peltokorpi, Antti
AD  - Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University, Finland,  olli.seppanen@aalto.fi, orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-5924
AD  - Senior Scientist, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Finland, rita.lavikka@vtt.fi,  orcid.org/0000-0003-1200-4773 
AD  - Doctoral Candidate, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University, Finland,  joonas.lehtovaara@aalto.fi , orcid.org/0000-0002-4761-3811
AD  - Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University, Finland,  antti.peltokorpi@aalto.fi, orcid.org/0000-0002-7939-6612
AB  - Renovation and relocation of underground utilities and renovating the streets are essential to maintain urban infrastructure. In cities, street reconstruction projects cause substantial harm to citizens in the form of traffic jams, noise, and poor access to businesses. Although some harm is unavoidable, the harm could be mitigated, for example, by decreasing overall construction durations. We used design science research to diagnose the current state of street reconstruction projects in the City of Helsinki and to develop a new model aimed at shortening project durations. The diagnosis was made based on interviews, workshops, observations, a survey, and an archival study. The identified key root causes of problems were lack of collaboration and inflexible contract forms in projects with high uncertainty. The new model was co-created with stakeholders participating in these projects, including a collaborative development phase, a shared situation picture among actors, and joint risk analysis of all parties. The study's key contribution was the way to use design science research to start a lean implementation in a challenging project type with multiple public stakeholders. The City of Helsinki will pilot and further develop the model in three street reconstruction projects.
KW  - Street reconstruction
KW  - contract forms
KW  - collaboration
KW  - trust
KW  - design science research
PB  - 
T2  - Proc. 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
DA  - 2021/07/14
CY  - Lima, Peru
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1849/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1849
N1  - Export Date: 20 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -