TY  - CONF
TI  - Lean Construction in Small-Medium Sized Enterprises (Smes): An Exploration of the Highways Supply Chain
C1  -  Heraklion, Greece
C3  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
SP  - 845
EP  - 851
PY  - 2017
DO  - 10.24928/2017/0328
AU  - Tezel, Algan
AU  - Koskela, Lauri
AU  - Aziz, Zeeshan
AD  - Research Fellow, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, a.tezel@hud.ac.uk
AD  - Professor, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, l.koskela@hud.ac.uk
AD  - Senior Lecturer, School of the Built Environment, University of Salford, Salford, UK, Z.Aziz@salford.ac.uk
AB  - Lean Construction (LC) is under the spotlight to improve the overall performance of civil construction projects in England. A strategic target of public clients is to effectively extend the current LC efforts, which have been mainly led by large companies to date, across small-medium sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper presents a summary of the initial findings of a research effort aimed at understanding the current condition of and future directions for LC at the SMEs in England’s highways supply chain. The research comprises of 20 interviews with senior managers, of which the initial findings were summarized in this paper, and a comprehensive survey study with 110 responses across the highways supply chain. 31 points for the current condition and 40 action items for the future of LC in the highways SMEs were presented and discussed.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - SMEs
KW  - highways
KW  - civil
KW  - deployment
KW  - implementation
PB  - 
T2  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2017/07/09
CY  -  Heraklion, Greece
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1481/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1481
N1  - Export Date: 19 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -