TY  - CONF
TI  - A Study of Drone-based Reality Capture for Construction Management: Kaizen in Daily Huddles
C1  - Osaka and Kyoto, Japan
C3  - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 33)
SP  - 881
EP  - 892
PY  - 2025
DO  - 10.24928/2025/0249
AU  - Zhou, Jiaxi
AU  - Chae, Soungho
AU  - Tanaka, Keiji
AU  - Hu, Rongbo
AD  - Researcher, Kajima Technical Research Institute Singapore, Kajima Corporation, Singapore
AD  - Chief Research Engineer, Kajima Technical Research Institute Singapore, Kajima Corporation, Singapore
AD  - Chief Research Engineer, Kajima Technical Research Institute Singapore, Kajima Corporation, Singapore 
AD  - Researcher, Kajima Technical Research Institute Singapore, Kajima Corporation, Singapore
ED  - Seppänen, Olli 
ED  - Koskela, Lauri 
ED  - Murata , Koichi 
AB  - This study explores the application of drone-based reality capture technologies in enhancing Lean Construction practices, particularly through the optimization of daily huddles. While prior studies tend to focus either on drone technology or construction management in isolation, this study integrates both perspectives by developing a practical deployment workflow and a set of reality capture tools tailored to typical stakeholder activities. A set of Lean-aligned evaluation metrics was designed to assess performance quantitatively. The proposed approach was implemented and tested in two real-world construction projects in Southeast Asia—one in Thailand and one in Singapore—representing the first time these project teams adopted drone-based workflows. Quantitative results demonstrate improvements in productivity, waste reduction, Just-in-Time execution, and stakeholder collaboration. The findings suggest that drone-based reality capture solutions, when strategically integrated with existing workflows, can significantly support Lean objectives.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - UAV
KW  - Reality Capture
KW  - Daily Huddle
KW  - Kaizen
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/2403/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2403
N1  - Export Date: 02 June 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -