TY  - CONF
TI  - Developing a Flow-Based Planning and Control Approach for Linear Infrastructure Projects
C1  - Edmonton, Canada
C3  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
SP  - 1186
EP  - 1197
PY  - 2022
DO  - 10.24928/2022/0236
AU  - Formoso, Carlos T. 
AU  - Flores, Patrícia 
AU  - Barth, Karina B. 
AU  - Suarez, Martin 
AU  - Magalhães, Ivo 
AU  - Ksiazenicki, Verónica 
AU  - Acquarone, Álvaro 
AD  -  Professor, Building Innovation Research Unit (NORIE), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul  (UFRGS), Brazil, formoso@ufrgs.br, orcid.org/0000-0002-4772-3746
AD  - Assistant Professor, Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay,  pflores@farq.edu.uy
AD  - Managing Director, LD Consulting, Brazil, karina@ldconsulting.com.br, orcid.org/0000-0001-9612- 6246
AD  - Site Superintendent, Stiler Engineering, masuarez@stilerpm.com.uy
AD  - Project Manager, Stiler Engineering, idemagalhaes@stilerpm.com.uy
AD  - Innovation and Continuous Improvement Manager, Stiler Engineering, vksiazenicki@stilerpm.com.uy
AD  - Site Superintendent, Stiler Engineering, aacquarone@stilerpm.com.uy 
AB  - The Last Planner System (LPS) and Location Based Planning and Control (LBPC) have been successfully used in many projects, either separately or together. Despite previous studies that have discussed the role of each of them, the complementarity between LPS and LBPC still needs to be further explained by using core Lean Production concepts. Moreover, most implementations reported in the literature of those two planning models have been concerned with building projects. Only a few cases are related to infrastructure projects, which have different types of complexity in relation to conventional building projects. This paper reports the initial results of the development of a planning and control model for linear infrastructure projects. This investigation was based on a case study carried out in a construction company from Uruguay. The development of the model considers some specific complexity features of linear infrastructure projects, such as high uncertainty, and independent linear processes spread around large urban or rural areas. The main insights provided by this study are concerned with devising a flow-based planning and control tool for look-ahead planning, the definition of criteria for devising location-based systems, the emphasis of work-inprogress control, and the use of visual management. 
KW  - Flow
KW  - production planning and control
KW  - linear projects
KW  - Last Planner
KW  - Location-based  management
KW  - visual management.
PB  - 
T2  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
DA  - 2022/07/27
CY  - Edmonton, Canada
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2042/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2042
N1  - Export Date: 28 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -