TY  - CONF
TI  - Towards a Circu-Lean Construction economy through standardisation
AU  - Johns, Nathan G. O.
AU  - Talebi, Saeed
AU  - Kagioglou, Mike
AD  - Lecturer/Dr, Engineering and the Built Environment, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom, N.Johns@SHU.ac.uk, orcid.org/0009-0004-2377-3089
AD  - Associate Professor, Engineering and the Built Environment, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Saeed.Talebi@BCU.ac.uk, orcid.org/0000-0001-6711-0931
AD  - Professor, Built Environment, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom, mike.kagioglou@dmu.ac.uk, orcid.org/0000-0003-3521-1484
ED  - Hamzeh, Farook
ED  - Poshdar, Mani
ED  - Garcia-Lopez,, Nelly P.
ED  - Gan, Vincent
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/06/22
T2  - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34)
C3  - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34)
CY  - Singapore, Singapore
SP  - 426
EP  - 437
DO  - 10.24928/2026/0128
SN  - 2789-0015 (ISSN)
AB  - As the perpetual advancement of the built environment engulfs the natural environment, sustainable development has been brought to the forefront of innovation within the construction industry. Strategies such as the Circular Economy (CE) and Lean Construction (LC) have been proven to support sustainable goals. However, their application within the construction industry has been hampered by the complexities of the industry’s dynamics. Within both the CE and LC, standardisation has been incorporated to reduce complexity within the industry’s pathology. Using a questionnaire to sample two case studies through an interpretivist perspective, this study seeks to define the foci of standardisation within the CE and LC and investigate the practice’s presence, level of development, and driving force within building construction within the United Kingdom (UK). The findings of this study highlight the increased incorporation of standardisation within building construction in the UK, as well as its sheer driving force and the impact of a lack of standardisation. This study provides a novel contextualisation and conceptual framework for LC and CE standardisation in construction, and an empirical comparison of standardisation between UK house building and residential high-rise projects.
KW  - Lean Construction
KW  - standardisation
KW  - circular economy
KW  - construction industry.
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/2454/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/2454
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -