TY  - CONF
TI  - Case Study for Work Structuring: Installation of Metal Door Frames
C1  - Brighton, UK
C3  - 8th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
PY  - 2000
AU  - Tsao, Cynthia C.Y.
AU  - Tommelein, Iris D.
AU  - Swanlund, Eric
AU  - Howell, Gregory A.
AD  - Ph.D. Student, Civil and Envir. Engrg. Department, 215 McLaughlin Hall, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1712, USA, Mobile: 510/593-4884, FAX: 510/643-8919, ccytsao@alum.calberkeley.org
AD  - Associate Professor, Civil and Envir. Engrg. Department, 215-A McLaughlin Hall, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1712, USA, 510/643-8678, FAX: 510/643-8919, tommelein@ce.berkeley.edu
AD  - Project Engineer, Oscar J. Boldt Construction Company, Redgranite Correctional Institution Job Site, 1008 County Road EE, Redgranite, WI 54970, USA, 920/566-0453, FAX: 920/566-0568, eswanlun@boldt.com
AD  - Director, Lean Construction Institute, Box 1003, Ketchum, ID 83340, USA, Mobile: 206/660-2216, FAX: 707/248-1369, ghowell@micron.net, www.leanconstruction.org
AB  - Work structuring means developing a project’s process design while trying to align engineering design, supply chain, resource allocation, and assembly efforts. The goal of work structuring is to make work flow more reliable and quick while delivering value to the customer. Current work structuring practices are driven by contracts, the history of trades, and the traditions of craft. As a result, they rarely consider alternatives for making the construction process more efficient. To illustrate current practice and the opportunities provided by work structuring, this case study discusses the installation of metal door frames at a prison project. Because the project is a correctional facility, the door frame installation process involves a special grouting procedure which makes the installation process less routine. Those involved recognized the difficulty of the situation but better solutions were impeded by normal practice. This case study thus provided the opportunity to illustrate how one may come up with alternative ways to perform the work without being constrained by contractual agreements and trade boundaries. By doing so, we illustrate what work structuring means. Local and global fixes for the system comprising walls and doors are explored. In addition, we discuss the importance of dimensional tolerances in construction and how these affect the handoff of work chunks from one production unit to the next.
KW  - lean construction
KW  - work structuring
KW  - process design
KW  - operations design
KW  - first run study
KW  - methods analysis
KW  - precast concrete
KW  - door installation
KW  - planning
KW  - coordination
PB  - 
T2  - 8th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2000/07/17
CY  - Brighton, UK
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/125/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/125
N1  - Export Date: 19 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -