34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34) - Singapore, Singapore - 2026

https://doi.org/10.24928/2026/0239

Aligning lean project delivery with industrilized construction: a project-level, requirements-based analysis

Jesús Ortega1, Harrison Mesa2, Zulay Giménez3 & Alejandro Vásquez-Hernández4

1Academic, Departamento de Obras Civiles, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Avenida España 1680, Valparaíso 2390123, Chile, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0002-1148-937X
2Associate professor, School of Civil Construction, Centro Nacional de Excelencia para la Industria de la Madera (CENAMAD, ANID BASAL FB210015), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0002-7050-3610
3Assistant professor School of Civil Construction, Centro Nacional de Excelencia para la Industria de la Madera (CENAMAD, ANID BASAL FB210015), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0001-9051-1434
4Assistant Professor, School of Applied Sciences and Engineering, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0002-1073-4038

Abstract

Existing industrialized construction (IC) and lean construction research have mainly addressed IC adoption at organisational and industry levels, identifying barriers, mapping lean techniques, and proposing strategic frameworks, while offering limited insight into the project-level requirements of industrialized construction projects (ICPs) and how these relate to Lean Project Delivery (LPD). This paper develops a requirements-based perspective on ICPs and examines to what extent LPD characteristics address these requirements. A structured literature review was used to consolidate key LPD characteristics into three dimensions: project organisation, contractual relationships, and operational system. In parallel, an expert focus group in the Chilean context elicited, refined, and prioritised ICP requirements, which were clustered into nine thematic categories. Both structured sets were then cross-referenced through thematic analysis. The results indicate strong alignment between LPD and requirements related to early stakeholder integration, collaboration and organisational governance, and factory–site planning and coordination, while in other areas LPD mainly offers a collaborative platform to better address ICP requirements, particularly those linked to regulatory and contractual (RC) aspects and digitalization and information technologies (D&I).

Keywords

Industrialized construction, lean project delivery, collaboration/collaborative, industrialized requirements.

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Ortega, J., Mesa, H., Giménez, Z. & Vásquez-Hernández, A.. (2026). Aligning lean project delivery with industrilized construction: a project-level, requirements-based analysis. In Hamzeh, F., Poshdar, M., & Garcia-Lopez,, N. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34) (pp. 798–810). https://doi.org/10.24928/2026/0239

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Ortega, J., Mesa, H., Giménez, Z. & Vásquez-Hernández, A.. (2026). Aligning lean project delivery with industrilized construction: a project-level, requirements-based analysis. IGLC34. https://doi.org/10.24928/2026/0239

 

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