TY  - CONF
TI  - Role of Lean and VDC in Reducing Physical and Operational Waste and Environmental Impact
C1  - Edmonton, Canada
C3  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
SP  - 36
EP  - 47
PY  - 2022
DO  - 10.24928/2022/0104
AU  - Maraqa, Musab Jamal 
AU  - Sacks, Rafael 
AU  - Spatari, Sabrina 
AD  - Ph.D. Graduate Student, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of  Technology, Haifa, Israel, +972 59 8218363, musab_maraqa@hotmail.com, orcid.org/0000-0002- 7756- 2787. 
AD  - Professor, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,  Haifa, Israel, +972 4 829 3190, cvsacks@technion.ac.il, orcid.org/0000-0001-9427-5053. 
AD  - 3 Associate Professor, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of  Technology, Haifa, Israel, +972 54 668 4373, ssabrina@technion.ac.il, orcid.org/0000-0001-7243- 9993.
AB  - Lean construction focuses on eliminating process and operational wastes. The reduction of waste improves environmental performance by reducing GHG emissions. This research quantified the impacts of lean construction and VDC in reducing physical and operational wastes related to partition walls. The researchers observed worker activities at construction sites and compared them with observations from past projects. The activities were classified into value-adding and non-value-adding activities. The researchers observed the construction of different block types (gypsum, autoclaved aerated concrete, and concrete blocks) to estimate the operational wastes related to the construction method. The results showed that lean and VDC improved the value-adding activities using gypsum block to 68.4% compared to 25.8% in a traditionally managed project using concrete block, an improvement of 167%. Moreover, the embodied GHG emissions in the lean-VDC project per partition area are 12 kg CO2e m-2 compared to 58.4 kg CO2e m-2 in the traditionally managed project. The reduction in GHG emissions is due to reducing waste in the lean-VDC project and using more sustainable materials. 
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - sustainability
KW  - waste
KW  - Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
KW  - Virtual Design  and Construction (VDC)
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/1943/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1943
N1  - Export Date: 29 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -