TY  - CONF
TI  - Capacity Utilization and Wait Time: A Primer for Construction
AU  - Howell, Gregory A.
AU  - Ballard, Glenn
AU  - Hall, Jerome
AD  - Executive Director, Lean Construction Institute, Box 1003, Ketchum, ID 83340. Ph: 208/726-9989, Fax: 707 248-1369. ghowell@leanconstruction.org
AD  - Associate Adjunct Professor, Construction Eng. & Mgt. Program, Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng., University of California at Berkeley, and Research Director, Lean Construction Institute, 4536 Fieldbrook Road, Oakland, CA 94619. 510/530-8656, ballard@leanconstruction.org.
AD  - Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-1351. Ph. 505.277.1418, jerome@unm.edu
ED  - Ballard, Glenn
ED  - Chua, David
PY  - 2001
DA  - 2001/08/06
T2  - 9th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 9th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Singapore, Singapore
AB  - The relationship between capacity utilization, wait time and variation is well understood in traffic and industrial engineering where the relationships are stated as fundamental laws. This paper will explain this concept and its implications for construction, and will challenge the current view that time and cost must always be in tension. The paper will show that reducing variation in work flow will improve performance and that the resulting improvement can be applied to reducing duration and/or cost.
KW  - Capacity Utilization
KW  - Cycle Time
KW  - Last Planner
KW  - Little’s law
KW  - Production Management
KW  - Productivity
KW  - Throughput
KW  - Variability
KW  - Wait Time
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/145/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/145
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -