https://doi.org/10.24928/2022/0236

Developing a Flow-Based Planning and Control Approach for Linear Infrastructure Projects

Carlos T. Formoso¹, Patrícia Flores², Karina B. Barth³, Martin Suarez⁴, Ivo Magalhães⁵, Verónica Ksiazenicki⁶ & Álvaro Acquarone⁷

¹ Professor, Building Innovation Research Unit (NORIE), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0002-4772-3746
²Assistant Professor, Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay, [email protected]
³Managing Director, LD Consulting, Brazil, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0001-9612- 6246
⁴Site Superintendent, Stiler Engineering, [email protected]
⁵Project Manager, Stiler Engineering, [email protected]
⁶Innovation and Continuous Improvement Manager, Stiler Engineering, [email protected]
⁷Site Superintendent, Stiler Engineering, [email protected]

Abstract

The Last Planner System (LPS) and Location Based Planning and Control (LBPC) have been successfully used in many projects, either separately or together. Despite previous studies that have discussed the role of each of them, the complementarity between LPS and LBPC still needs to be further explained by using core Lean Production concepts. Moreover, most implementations reported in the literature of those two planning models have been concerned with building projects. Only a few cases are related to infrastructure projects, which have different types of complexity in relation to conventional building projects. This paper reports the initial results of the development of a planning and control model for linear infrastructure projects. This investigation was based on a case study carried out in a construction company from Uruguay. The development of the model considers some specific complexity features of linear infrastructure projects, such as high uncertainty, and independent linear processes spread around large urban or rural areas. The main insights provided by this study are concerned with devising a flow-based planning and control tool for look-ahead planning, the definition of criteria for devising location-based systems, the emphasis of work-inprogress control, and the use of visual management.

Keywords

Flow, production planning and control, linear projects, Last Planner, Location-based management, visual management.

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Reference

Formoso, C. T. , Flores, P. , Barth, K. B. , Suarez, M. , Magalhães, I. , Ksiazenicki, V. & Acquarone, Á. 2022. Developing a Flow-Based Planning and Control Approach for Linear Infrastructure Projects, Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) , 1186-1197. doi.org/10.24928/2022/0236

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