TY - CONF TI - Lean Construction Trial on a Highways Maintenance Project C1 - East Lansing, Michigan, USA C3 - 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction SP - 119 EP - 128 PY - 2007 AU - Ansell, Mary AU - Holmes, Mike AU - Evans, Rees AU - Pasquire, Christine AU - Price, Andrew AD - Research Engineer, AmeyMouchel, Telford, UK. Phone +44 1952 655558, mary.ansell@ameymouchel.com AD - Construction Team Leader, AmeyMouchel, Telford, UK. Phone +44 1952 655508, mike.holmes@ameymouchel.com AD - Delivery Manager, AmeyMouchel, Telford, UK. Phone +44 121 2541306, rees.evans@ameymouchel.com AD - Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, UK. Phone +44 1509 222895, c.l.pasquire@lboro.ac.uk AD - Professor, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, UK. Phone +44 1509 222627, a.d.f.price@lboro.ac.uk ED - Pasquire, C.L, Christine L. ED - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia AB - In 2005, lean thinking was trialled to improve processes in the construction phase of a highways maintenance project. The trial was undertaken by a partnering framework; those involved were already working in a collaborative environment, and it was thought this would be conducive to introducing lean thinking. The scheme involved resurfacing and deep patching of two four lane carriageways and the provision of concrete protection to eight bridge piers. During the construction phase, a buffered programme, four-week look-ahead programmes and weekly programme plans were used to: undertake constraints analysis; measure planned activities completed each week; and analyse root causes of delay. On completion, the Project Team were interviewed on the successes and failures of using lean thinking on the project. Both problems and benefits were encountered in applying lean to the project. There were some issues with the way that lean was presented and certain improvements to the process were identified so that lean could be continued on other schemes undertaken within the framework, including: ensuring a better understanding of lean thinking and its application in a highways context; adopting some of the analyses as a formal process and measurement tool; and investigating principles of lean thinking outside programme management. KW - Highways maintenance KW - implementation KW - lean processes KW - partnering framework PB - T2 - 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction DA - 2007/07/18 CY - East Lansing, Michigan, USA L1 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/463/pdf L2 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/463 N1 - Export Date: 29 March 2024 DB - IGLC.net DP - IGLC LA - English ER -