https://doi.org/10.24928/2022/0129

Challenges and Importance of Human Beings Within the Last Planner System in Colombia: A Case Study

Maria Alejandra Diaz ¹

¹ Project manager architect, MACA Construcciones, Ibagué, Colombia, [email protected], orcid.org/ 0000-0002-9781-9594

Abstract

The Last Planner® System (LPS) is a system that optimizes the workflow through the measurement of the reliability of commitments made by workers on a construction site. This system has achieved various benefits in the control of production in construction projects, such as minimizing execution times, reducing variability and uncertainty. However, when applied, obstacles have arisen, which leads to a revision of the methodology and/or partial implementations. In 2021, an update of the system was made in order to expand the scope of the system and respond to doubts and concerns. Therefore, this article seeks to identify the main challenges and give a proposal to solve them from the implementation and use perspective, according to the Colombian context through the identification of the possible causes of these difficulties found during the literature review and interviews to construction professionals. In the investigation, it was found different challenges consisting of 13 main obstacles in terms of the implementation and use perspective (divided by user type), and 8 needs which can be solved with the LPS update and other proposed solutions that holds the organization transformation (human perspective) and a detailed explanation of the whole process (practical perspective).

Keywords

Last Planner® System, Culture, People, Implementation, Case study.

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Diaz , M. A. 2022. Challenges and Importance of Human Beings Within the Last Planner System in Colombia: A Case Study, Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) , 271-282. doi.org/10.24928/2022/0129

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