https://doi.org/10.24928/2018/0542

Combining Takt Planning With Prefabrication for Industrialized Construction

Krishna Chauhan¹, Antti Peltokorpi², Olli Seppänen³ & Klas Berghede⁴

¹Doctoral Candidate, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University, Finland, [email protected]
²Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University, Finland, [email protected]
³Professor of Practice, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University, Finland, [email protected]
⁴Dir. Production Innovation, BOLDT, [email protected]

Abstract

Prefabrication and takt planning and control have been discussed a lot among lean construction researchers and practitioners. However, prefabrication and takt planning together as a way to promote industrialization in construction have been under explored in earlier research. Based on a literature review and two case analysis, this study explored the synergies between prefabrication and takt to promote the industrialization in construction. First case applied prefabrication and takt planning together and the second case applied takt planning, without prefabrication. Our results demonstrate that the two concepts together lead to better results and just implementing takt without prefabrication eventually moves the bottleneck of the project to drying times that could be solved with prefabrication. Therefore, both prefabrication and takt planning benefit from the combination and we argue that industrialization in construction requires both concepts.

Keywords

Lean construction, Prefabrication, Takt planning, Industrial construction

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Reference

Chauhan, K. , Peltokorpi, A. , Seppänen, O. & Berghede, K. 2018. Combining Takt Planning With Prefabrication for Industrialized Construction, 26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction , 848-857. doi.org/10.24928/2018/0542

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