https://doi.org/10.24928/2017/0241

Strategies That Can Help Transform the Construction Industry

Margarita Leonova¹, Glenn Ballard² & Fritz Gehbauer³

¹Ph.D. Student, Tallinn University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Ehitajate tee 5, 19086 Tallinn, Estonia., +372 5845 4946, [email protected]
²Research Director, Project Production Systems Laboratory, Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept., Univ. of California, Berkeley, 407 McLaughlin Hall, CA94720-1712, USA. [email protected]
³Professor Emeritus, Institute for Technology and Management in Construction, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Am Fasanengarten Geb. 50.31, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany, Phone +49-721 9554631, fritzgehbauer@ t-online.de

Abstract

This paper is an appeal to the various stakeholders committed to lean transformation of global construction to coordinate their efforts, and to recruit others not yet committed. Both opponents and advocates of industry transformation are identified; those who live off the waste are in one corner and those who suffer from unsafe, defective, late and costly construction are in the other. A case is made for an alliance of advocates to develop and coordinate the manifold initiatives that together constitute a strategy for transformation.

Keywords

Lean construction, industry transformation, research strategies, research areas

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Leonova, M. , Ballard, G. & Gehbauer, F. 2017. Strategies That Can Help Transform the Construction Industry, 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction , 333-340. doi.org/10.24928/2017/0241

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