TY  - CONF
TI  - Lean Construction 4.0: Exploring the Challenges of Development in the AEC Industry
AU  - Hamzeh, Farook
AU  - González, Vicente A.
AU  - Alarcon, Luis F.
AU  - Khalife, Salam
AD  - Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta,  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, hamzeh@ualberta.ca, orcid.org/0000-0002-3986-9534
AD  - Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of  Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, v.gonzalez@auckland.ac.nz, orcid.org/0000-0003-3408-3863
AD  - Professor, Department of Construction Engineering and Management, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, lalarcon@ing.puc.cl, orcid.org/0000-0002-9277-2272
AD  - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta,  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, khalife@ualberta.ca, orcid.org/0000-0003-1907-4547
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/07/14
T2  - Proc. 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
C3  - Proc. 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
CY  - Lima, Peru
SP  - 207
EP  - 216
DO  - 10.24928/2021/0181
AB  - In 1994, Lean Construction was understood as the application of Toyota Production principles to Construction. Since then, Lean Construction researchers and advocates have made two fundamental contributions: i) Lean Construction has become a production management theory in its own right; ii) Lean Construction has involved not only production management, but also people, technology, sustainability, safety, education, among others. With the arrival of the “fourth industrial revolution” or Industry 4.0, there has been seminal research attempts to acknowledge the influence of Industry 4.0 on the architecture-engineering-construction (AEC) industry (e.g. Construction 4.0), where the focus has been primarily on technology. However, for Lean Construction to keep evolving and serving the AEC industry, it must embrace the changes propelled by Industry 4.0, but maintain the people-processes-technology triad at its core. We argue that a shift towards Lean Construction 4.0 is needed, paying attention to the synergies between production management theory and digital/smart technologies. The term “Lean Construction 4.0” does represent the vision where we envision the AEC industry to be in the future, rather than its current status. The goal of this paper is not to propose an implementation plan, but to identify research needs and to motivate a discussion on the role of Lean Construction in facing the challenges of adopting Industry 4.0 in the AEC industry.
KW  - Production management theory
KW  - industry 4.0
KW  - integration
KW  - people-process-technology
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1881/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1881
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -