TY  - CONF
TI  - Investigating the Role of Lean Tools in Minimizing Construction Waste Across the Triple Bottom Line
C1  - Osaka and Kyoto, Japan
C3  - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 33)
SP  - 1149
EP  - 1160
PY  - 2025
DO  - 10.24928/2025/0135
AU  - Malaeb, Zeina
AU  - Hamzeh, Farook
AD  - Ph.D. Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, malaeb@ualberta.ca, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1979-3923
AD  - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, hamzeh@ualberta.ca, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3986-9534
ED  - Seppänen, Olli 
ED  - Koskela, Lauri 
ED  - Murata , Koichi 
AB  - The prevalence of waste in the construction industry and its contribution to project failure challenges sustainability targets. Therefore, waste reduction is key to sustainable construction. Lean construction recognizes the criticality of waste elimination and proposes tools and practices to minimize waste and maximize value. Nevertheless, the categorization of waste in the literature focuses on economic waste and gives less attention to environmental and social waste. Moreover, research on the role of lean tools in waste management primarily addresses economic advantages and overlooks the other sustainability pillars, thereby providing an unbalanced targeting of sustainability goals. Accordingly, there is a need to adopt a holistic perception of waste and address the contribution of lean in eliminating waste across the triple bottom line, representing environmental, social, and economic dimensions. For that, this paper conducts a literature review of existing studies to identify, categorize, and analyze the different waste categories and the role of lean tools in minimizing them. It fills the gap in the literature and presents two main contributions: (1) a well-rounded table of wastes across environmental, social, and economic dimensions and (2) a figure identifying and matching the waste management role of each lean tool to its corresponding sustainability pillar.
KW  - Environment
KW  - lean tools
KW  - sustainability
KW  - triple bottom line
KW  - waste
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 33)
DA  - 2025/06/02
CY  - Osaka and Kyoto, Japan
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2330/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2330
N1  - Export Date: 02 June 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -