TY  - CONF
TI  - Sources of Waste on Construction Site: A Comparison to the Manufacturing Industry
AU  - Murata, Koichi
AU  - Tezel, Algan
AU  - Koskela, Lauri
AU  - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia
AD  - Associate Professor, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Chiba, JAPAN, murata.kouichi30@nihon-u.ac.jp
AD  - Lecturer, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, A.Tezel@hud.ac.uk
AD  - Professor of Construction and Project Management, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, L.Koskela@hud.ac.uk
AD  - Professor, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, P.Tzortzopoulos@hud.ac.uk
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018/07/18
T2  - 26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Chennai, India
SP  - 973
EP  - 981
DO  - 10.24928/2018/0280
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - The wastes of the supply chain should be reduced to achieve the stabilization of construction operations in lean-based construction management. The aim of this paper is to investigate the communication related sources of waste on construction worksite when compared to the manufacturing industry. The methodology used involves several observations of Japanese construction worksites and interviews with worksite managers and executives of some construction companies, and public institutions, and participation at forums for exchanging practical construction experiences conducted over the last few years. Two main results are obtained. The first one details the three peculiarities of construction, specific customer, site production, and temporary organization as described in prior research. The second one proposes a structural model to depict wastes caused by temporary organization, one of the three mentioned peculiarities. These findings contribute to better understanding of the peculiarities of construction in view of applying lean techniques, and to broadening the practitioners’ viewpoint by providing a guideline to gain the capability of a sharp and systematic understanding of their worksite.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - waste of production flow
KW  - waste of organization
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1623/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1623
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -