TY  - CONF
TI  - The Role of Digitalized Visual Management to Empower Selfmanaged Crews in Construction Projects 
C1  - Berkeley, California, USA
C3  - Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
SP  - 925
EP  - 936
PY  - 2020
DO  - 10.24928/2020/0021
AU  - Reinbold, Ana
AU  - Seppänen, Olli
AU  - Peltokorpi, Antti
AD  - Doctoral Candidate, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo Finland, +358 50 431 2015, ana.reinbold@aalto.fi, orcid.org/0000-0002-7774-7984 
AD  - Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo Finland, +358 50 368 0412, olli.seppanen@aalto.fi, orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-5924
AD  - Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo Finland, +358 50 371 6613, antti.peltokorpi@aalto.fi, orcid.org/0000-0002-7939-6612
AB  - This theoretical study encompasses the role of digitalization in visual management (VM) applied in construction projects to increase the situational awareness (SA) of construction workers and crews. A literature review on VM, SA and self-managed crews shows that the level of digitalization in the construction industry is low when compared to other industries, that information silos are a common practice and that the decision-making processes depend largely on the construction manager role, causing a bottleneck of information and repeated time waste. As more digitalization enters construction sites and the amount and quality of available data increases, appropriate use of this data can bring meaningful improvement to construction site management. The study shows that using updated and real-time data for VM devices can increase information flow among construction workers and crews, increasing SA throughout the construction project. This can enable the construction crews to be more autonomous and self-managed, resulting in decentralized decision-making processes to solve task-related problems. Further steps for empirical research are suggested. 
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - visual management
KW  - situational awareness
KW  - information flow
KW  - selfmanaged crews
PB  - 
T2  - Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
DA  - 2020/07/06
CY  - Berkeley, California, USA
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1766/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1766
N1  - Export Date: 23 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -