TY  - CONF
TI  - How Does Flow Impact Data Center Roofing Durations? A Case Study
AU  - Apgar, Becca
AU  - Smith, James P.
AU  - Copenhaver, Daryn
AD  - Undergraduate Student, Civil and Construction Engineering Department, Brigham Young University,  Provo, USA, bapgar@byu.edu, orcid.org/0000-0002-8528-0544
AD  - Assistant Professor, Civil and Construction Engineering Department, Brigham Young University, Provo,  USA, james_smith@byu.edu, orcid.org/0000-0001-8925-5680
AD  - 3Lean Innovation Manager, Mortenson Construction, daryn.copenhaver@mortenson.com
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  - 681
EP  - 692
DO  - 10.24928/2022/0175
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - Throughout the last few decades, a slow shift from the Critical Path Method to other, flow-focused scheduling methods has occurred in the industry. However, they have not yet been widely implemented by construction companies. This case study was conducted on a private data center project on a large site in which the project team has applied Takt time, pull planning, and location-based scheduling (i.e., Takt planning). The case study takes into consideration the roofing schedules for five buildings constructed over a span of three years and compares their total roofing task duration before and after the implementation of these techniques. The analysis has shown that a focus on flow and implementation of Takt planning on a large data center project decreases the overall duration of roofing construction tasks. This case study serves as a support for the transition from the traditional Critical Path Method to Takt planning or a flow-based approach since it has effectively decreased total roofing duration in this project.
KW  - Takt planning
KW  - location-based management (LBM)
KW  - flow
KW  - pull planning
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1998/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1998
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -