TY  - CONF
TI  - Superior Contractor Performance: a Barrier to Lean Construction Adoption in Australia
C1  - Edmonton, Canada
C3  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
SP  - 528
EP  - 539
PY  - 2022
DO  - 10.24928/2022/0157
AU  - Stevens, Matt 
AD  - Lecturer, School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment, Western Sydney Univeristy, Penrith,  NSW AU, matt.stevens@westernsydney.edu.au, orcid.org/0000-0003-2301-1311 
AB  - The Australian construction industry produces twice as much value per dollar while enduring four times the competition than manufacturing. Impressively, this sector outpaces six of nine major industries in the country. However, their quantitative success may dampen Lean Construction's adoption, hurting the industry long-term. Practices significantly transform the value of the inputs, and contractors do it better than manufacturing. However, the industry is much riskier than manufacturing, so contractors hesitate to change to new ones quickly. It appears that organisations will not rapidly adopt Lean's methodology partially due to the success and risk of the Australian construction Industry. This paper proposes a survey methodology of practices to convince contractors of Lean Construction’s improvement potential. Obviously, they should search wherever there may be promising methods. However, this research outlines a straightforward process to validate valuable practices that can be executed internally in the industry and clarify practices' value and timely completion. The aim is to convince already superior performing contractors to see the LC approach as a competitive opportunity.
KW  - Construction contracting management
KW  - best practice
KW  - performance improvement
KW  - innovation.
PB  - 
T2  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
DA  - 2022/07/27
CY  - Edmonton, Canada
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1985/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1985
N1  - Export Date: 29 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -