TY  - CONF
TI  - Construction Workers’ Situational Awareness – An Overlooked Perspective
AU  - Görsch, Christopher
AU  - Seppänen, Olli
AU  - Peltokorpi, Antti
AU  - Lavikka, Rita
AD  - Doctoral Candidate, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo Finland, +358 50 411 8924, christopher.0.gorsch@aalto.fi, orcid.org/0000-0001-9632-4031
AD  - Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo Finland, +358 50 368 0412, olli.seppanen@aalto.fi, orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-5924
AD  - Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo Finland, +358 50 371 6613, antti.peltokorpi@aalto.fi, orcid.org/0000-0002-7939-6612
AD  - Senior Scientist, D.Sc. (Tech.), Smart Energy and Built Environment, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo Finland, +358 50 384 1662, rita.lavikka@vtt.fi, orcid.org/0000-0003-1200-4773
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/07/06
T2  - Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
C3  - Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
CY  - Berkeley, California, USA
SP  - 937
EP  - 948
DO  - 10.24928/2020/0022
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - The construction industry is claimed to suffer from low productivity often caused by its complex, individualistic and unstructured nature. The construction workers’ situational awareness (SA) is an insufficiently investigated and overlooked perspective in current project and production management literature to increase productivity in construction projects. This paper discusses the role of construction workers in planning and control of production and the possible impact of SA for on-site processes integrating knowledge and expertise from construction workers. The paper reviews the literature concerning construction workers’ on-site situation, integration in production planning and control processes and the possibilities for empowering workers with SA. Providing real-time situational data can empower workers to make better decisions based on accurate, transparent, structured and trustworthy data. It is concluded that a better understanding and availability of the project information and progress can free up workers' workload, to focus their capacity on the task delivery. This will ultimately lead to a boost in productivity on-site. Furthermore, the paper opens avenue for further research and how to capture the current state of on-site SA of construction workers through a methodical approach including quantitative and qualitative methods.
KW  - Workflow
KW  - lean construction
KW  - production planning
KW  - construction worker
KW  - situational awareness
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1767/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1767
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -