TY - CONF TI - Implementing Lean Construction Concepts in a Residential Project C1 - Manchester, UK C3 - 16th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction SP - 251 EP - 257 PY - 2008 AU - Mota, Bruno Pontes AU - Mota, Ricardo Rola AU - Alves, Thais da C.L. AD - Undergraduate student, Civil Engineering, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. Phone +55 85 3244-1697, brunopmota@yahoo.com.br AD - Director, Pauta Engenharia Ltda, Brazil. Phone +55 85 3244-1697, ricardo@pauta.eng.br AD - Assistant Professor, Department of Structural and Construction Engineering, University of Ceará, Brazil. Phone +55 85 3366-9607, ext.36, thaiscla@ufc.br ED - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia ED - Kagioglou, Mike AB - The main goals of this paper are to present a case in which Lean Construction concepts were implemented and to discuss the benefits achieved during the process. The case study was developed during the construction phase of a residential project in the urban area of Fortaleza, Brazil. The project comprised the construction of 18 houses financed by a private investor and it was constructed and managed by a smallsized construction company. After lean concepts were implemented the project achieved a more stable flow of work and the number of emergency requests for resources decreased dramatically. Also, the project was completed a month in advance when compared to its original schedule thus allowing the investor to sell the units sooner than expected. Finally, after analyzing the benefits achieved in this pilot project the company’s upper management has decided to use Lean concepts in other projects, and the private investor wants to make sure Lean is used in other projects financed by his company. The paper aims at contributing to the literature on Lean Construction on the industry papers section by presenting a success story experienced by a small-sized construction company. KW - Production system design KW - transparency KW - line-of-balance KW - home building PB - T2 - 16th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction DA - 2008/07/16 CY - Manchester, UK L1 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/594/pdf L2 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/594 N1 - Export Date: 28 March 2024 DB - IGLC.net DP - IGLC LA - English ER -