TY - CONF TI - Understanding Lean Construction and How It Penetrates the Industry - A Comparison of the Dissemination of Lean C1 - Gramado, Brazil C3 - 10th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction PY - 2002 AU - Johansen, Eric AU - Glimmerveen, Henk AU - Vrijhoef, Ruben AD - School of the Built Environment, Northumbria University, Ellison Place Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2, 3NN, UK. 0191-227-4720, eric.johansen@unn.ac.uk AD - School of the Built Environment, Northumbria University, Ellison Place Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2, 3NN, UK AD - Department of Project Management and Real Estate, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, PO Box 5043, NL-2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands, Tel +31 15 2783049, Fax +31 15 2783171, E-mail r.vrijhoef@bk.tudelft.nl ED - Formoso, Carlos T. ED - Ballard, Glenn AB - Common et al (2000) investigated the take up of lean concepts in UK construction and found it low with a lot of confusion and limited knowledge of lean construction techniques and a great variation in perceptions. After establishing the background of the industry in the Netherlands a limited study with the same questionnaire from the UK was used to survey a similar sample of Dutch contractors and to make comparisons. The objectives were to see whether the indicators of lean culture or principles as seen through the existence of factors based on a conceptual framework were present in the contracting industry of the Netherlands, to compare the results of the survey with the original results and to see if there were reasons for any differences that might occur. The results indicate that the dissemination of lean concepts in the Netherlands is even lower than the UK although there is more consistency in perceptions. Within two countries with fairly common construction industry problems there is a difference in approach to lean construction. The lack of a focussed driver for change such as the UK’s Rethinking Construction report (Egan 1998) is given as one reason for the difference. KW - Lean construction KW - lean concepts KW - lean penetration. PB - T2 - 10th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction DA - 2002/08/06 CY - Gramado, Brazil L1 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/191/pdf L2 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/191 N1 - Export Date: 28 March 2024 DB - IGLC.net DP - IGLC LA - English ER -