TY  - CONF
TI  - Takting the Sustainability of Construction Processes: An Environmental Assessment Method
AU  - Slosharek, Benjamin
AU  - Dlouhy, Janosch
AU  - Schneider-Marin, Patricia
AU  - Lang, Werner
AD  - Junior Project Manager, KVL Bauconsult GmbH, +49 15773597610,  benjamin.slosharek@kvlgroup.com, orcid.org/0000-0003-3935-8918
AD  - Lean Expert, BMW AG, +4915160171327, janosch.dlouhy@bmw.de, orcid.org/0000-0001-5954- 9936
AD  - Research Fellow, Institute of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Design and Building, Technical  University of Munich (TUM), patricia.schneider@tum.de, orcid.org/0000-0003-3728-5938
AD  - Professor, Institute of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Design and Building, Technical University of  Munich (TUM), w.lang@tum.de, orcid.org/0000-0002-6593-8388
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  - 902
EP  - 912
DO  - 10.24928/2021/0198
AB  - The building sector is key to achieving global sustainability targets due to its significant resource consumption, associated emissions, and waste generation. Life cycle assessment (LCA) evaluates the environmental quality of buildings to identify improvement possibilities. However, current research activities limit their focus on a few life cycle phases, while the construction phase receives none to little attention. At the heart of the problem lies the lack of information about on-site processes and the lack of tools to evaluate the environmental quality of construction processes. The authors developed a conceptual framework to assess this aspect using an interdisciplinary approach. The proposed solution is based on two main methods, namely LCA and Takt Planning (TP). Based on literature research we identified the main categories for environmentally relevant in- and outputs of construction processes. This allows a structured, standardized, and scalable assessment of each single process step from an environmental perspective We anticipate this method to be a starting point for a holistic sustainability approach for construction process assessment. Further development of this framework aims to broaden the current environmental evaluation in the building sector and to improve both, the construction process and the building product from an environmental point of view.
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - takt planning (TP)
KW  - life cycle assessment (LCA)
KW  - lean construction (LC)
KW  - process
KW  - theory.
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1932/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1932
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -