TY  - CONF
TI  - Identification of Lean Opportunities in a South African Public-Sector Projects Cost Management Framework
C1  - Chennai, India
C3  - 26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
SP  - 1185
EP  - 1194
PY  - 2018
DO  - 10.24928/2018/0207
AU  - Monyane, Thabiso G.
AU  - Emuze, Fidelis A.
AU  - Crafford, Gerrit
AD  - Doctoral candidate, Built Environment Dept., CUT, FS - Central Univ. of Technology, Free State, RSA, +2751 507-3537, tmonyane@cut.ac.za
AD  - Associate Professor, Built Environment Dept., CUT, FS - Central Univ. of Technology, Free State, RSA, +2751 507-3089, femuze@cut.ac.za 
AD  - Associate Professor, NMU – Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, +2741 504 2153, gerrit.crafford@nmu.ac.za
AB  - The prevalence of cost overruns in public sector construction projects in South Africa has been observed. This has been attributed to ineffectual approaches to cost management within these projects. The prior study by the authors has made sense of these observations an understanding of existing cost management approaches. Accordingly, this study seeks to identify Lean opportunities from existing cost management practices. Such opportunities will enable identification of effective cost management during project delivery. Adopting a qualitative case study research design, the study relies on data obtained from a purposively selected list of interviewees from a cadre of cases, i.e., recently completed public sector construction projects in South Africa. These interviews will be juxtaposed with evidence from project-related documents. Based on the data, the study will provide a vignette of lean-led cost management frameworks applied to these projects. Encompassing various stages of the project delivery lifecycle, this vignette will enable an identification lean lead cost management on these projects. Subsequently, the vignette will be validated by interviewees. The expectation is that findings from this study will provide a brief picture of cost management frameworks and enable the introduction of probable lean-based solutions to reverse this unbecoming trend.
KW  - Construction Projects
KW  - Cost Management
KW  - Public Sector
KW  - Vignette
KW  - South Africa
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T2  - 26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2018/07/18
CY  - Chennai, India
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1513/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1513
N1  - Export Date: 24 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -