TY  - CONF
TI  - Situational Awareness in Construction Projects Using Takt Production
AU  - Halttula, Heikki P. I.
AU  - Seppänen, Olli
AD  - Managing director, Civil Soft Ltd., Espoo, Finland, Heikki.halttula@gmail.com, orcid.org/0000-0002- 2897-104X
AD  - Associate professor, Operations Management in Construction, Aalto University School of Engineering,  Helsinki, Finland, olli.seppanen@aalto.fi, orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-5924
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/27
T2  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
C3  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
CY  - Edmonton, Canada
SP  - 164
EP  - 174
DO  - 10.24928/2022/0119
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - The construction industry is improving its processes targeting to increase productivity. Lean construction has been in use for decades, and now lean is expanding in the form of takt production. Takt production gives clear steps to apply lean in daily construction projects. Takt production transfers the improving flow from the manufacturing industry’s conveyor belts to construction sites. Digital situational awareness systems are good examples of new digital solutions in construction. They provide possibilities to construction stakeholders to better control and improve their processes by visualizing waste and helping find the root causes of problems to be fixed. This paper aims to study how digital awareness systems support takt production in construction projects. This study is a qualitative case study based on a project implementing a digital situational awareness system and relies on project staff interviews and the data available on the project. The project team has successfully improved takt production with digital awareness systems for revealing and fixing waste. They have successfully improved the productivity of tasks. Digital situational awareness systems can play an important role in the continuous improvement of processes in the construction industry.
KW  - Productivity
KW  - lean construction
KW  - situational awareness
KW  - takt production
KW  - waste.
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1954/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1954
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -