TY  - CONF
TI  - Critical Review of Tolerance Management in Construction
AU  - Talebi, Saeed
AU  - Koskela, Lauri
AU  - Shelbourn, Mark
AU  - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia
AD  - PhD Candidate, Email: Saeed.Talebi@hud.ac.uk, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, Queen Street Building, Queen St, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 3DU, United Kingdom.
AD  - PhD Candidate, Email: Saeed.Talebi@hud.ac.uk, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, Queen Street Building, Queen St, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 3DU, United Kingdom.
AD  - PhD Candidate, Email: Saeed.Talebi@hud.ac.uk, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, Queen Street Building, Queen St, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 3DU, United Kingdom.
AD  - PhD Candidate, Email: Saeed.Talebi@hud.ac.uk, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, Queen Street Building, Queen St, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 3DU, United Kingdom.
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016/07/20
T2  - 24th Annual Conference of the  International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 24th Annual Conference of the  International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Boston, Massachusetts, USA
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - The current practice of Tolerance Management (TM) is still very ad hoc and reactive, despite increasing calls for waste reduction and an improved quality of buildings particularly within industrialised construction. This paper aims to identify the root causes of tolerance problems, the reasons why current methods have not been as successful as expected and why the industry still struggles with this issue. Having reviewed and interpreted the existing literature, it is apparent that tolerance problems fall into two categories defined by intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Furthermore, the drawbacks of the existing methods for TM were analysed, and the findings show that none of the existing methods have been considered in a continuous and holistic process and they remain scattered.
KW  - Tolerance Management
KW  - Root Cause Analysis
KW  - Industrialisation
KW  - Integrated Design and Construction
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1275/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1275
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -