TY - CONF TI - Perspectives on Non-Value Added Activities: The Case of Piece-Rate in the Swedish Construction Industry C1 - Helsingør, Denmark C3 - 12th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction PY - 2004 AU - Saukkoriipi, Lasse AD - Master of Science, Building Economics and Management, Chalmers University of Technology, Sven Hultins gata 6, SE-412 96 Goteborg, Sweden, +46 (0)31-7721964, lasse.saukkoriipi@bem.chalmers.se ED - Bertelsen, Sven ED - Formoso, Carlos T. AB - One strategy to reduce the costs of building projects is to reduce non-value added activities. This paper describes the concept of non-value added activities by using three separate theoretical concepts: lean production, activity-based costing and management, and poorquality costing. The piece-rate system is one part of many building projects that includes several non-value added activities. These piece-rate related activities are used as a case to elucidate how the three concepts can affect the amount of non-value added activities. KW - Non-value added activity KW - lean production KW - activity based costing and management KW - poorquality costing KW - piece-rate KW - building project PB - T2 - 12th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction DA - 2004/08/03 CY - Helsingør, Denmark L1 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/329/pdf L2 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/329 N1 - Export Date: 29 March 2024 DB - IGLC.net DP - IGLC LA - English ER -