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The construction job sites are highly dynamic and chaotic environment for both workers and management. To ensure efficient task performances, workspace is a key resource on construction sites.
Implementing new technologies and management practices is all the rage in companies seeking to be on the knife’s edge in operational excellence.
The delivery of construction projects often follows ‘business as usual (BAU) model. BAU has made poor project delivery pervasive in construction.
The CPM concept is simply that the longest sequence of tasks, the critical path, will determine the duration of a project. Theoretically, that makes complete sense. The problem arises in execution. A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.
LPS and Scrum share several similarities including the process of refining or breaking down large chunks of work into smaller-manageable-executable tasks which team members commit to complete in a reasonable time frame.
He was born February 3, 1943 in Springfield, Missouri to Alvin Hinshaw Howell and Joyce Howell. He lived in Independence, Missouri before moving to Scottsdale, Arizona when he was in high school. Greg studied construction engineering at Stanford, was a member of the ATO fraternity, and played on the university rugby team.
Model Maturity Index (MMI) is a framework designed to describe the model progression in the BIM, using a series of levels increasing in maturity as the design process progresses towards a finalized design.
Advanced work packaging (AWP) has gained a considerable following, particularly from the owner’s side. Heck, what could be wrong with planning the work in bite-sized chunks and getting improved craft productivity?
These cost and scheduling deviations often originate during the project planning stage. Moreover, several other problems related to quality, safety, environmental and the relationship between owners and contractors are also caused by planning failures.
Historically, the greatest challenges in the construction industry are cost and schedule deviations that stem mainly from alterations in the sequence of activities, inefficient scheduling, and high waste rates of operational time, materials and operational efficiency.
The model for implementing the Lean Construction philosophy in fast projects was developed during work carried out over more than one year with a general contractor in Brazil.