TY - CONF TI - Lean-digital-place integration for circular housing design C1 - Singapore, Singapore C3 - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34) SP - 1395 EP - 1406 PY - 2026 DO - 10.24928/2026/0137 AU - Awwal, Samira AU - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia AU - Fatahian, Esmaeel AU - Hill, Catherine AU - Mishra, Rakesh AU - Fleming, Leigh AD - Senior Lecturer, Department of Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom, s.awwal@ljmu.ac.uk , https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7771-1511 AD - Professor, Design and Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom, patricia.tzortzopoulos@ntu.ac.uk , https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8740-6753 AD - Research Assistant, Department of Engineering & Technology, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom, e.fatahian3@hud.ac.uk , https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6984-5113 AD - Research Assistant, Department of Engineering & Technology, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom, c.hill@hud.ac.uk , https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9305-0594 AD - Professor, Department of Engineering & Technology, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom, r.mishra@hud.ac.uk , https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1620-3238 AD - Professor, Department of Engineering & Technology, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom, l.t.fleming2@hud.ac.uk , https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6962-8686 ED - Hamzeh, Farook ED - Poshdar, Mani ED - Garcia-Lopez,, Nelly P. AB - Circular economy strategies are increasingly promoted to reduce material waste, embodied carbon, and lifecycle environmental impacts in the built environment. However, practical adoption in housing remains limited due to fragmentation across process, information, and regional infrastructures. Existing studies emphasise design strategies or digital tools but do not appropriately consider the production system conditions required for circular workflows. A structured narrative literature review was conducted across three domains: Lean Construction, digital construction technologies (including BIM, Digital Twins, and AI), and circular economy. Based on this synthesis, the paper proposes a Lean-Digital-Place (LDP) framework that conceptualises circularity as an emergent property of aligned production processes, digital information infrastructures, and regional material ecosystems. The framework extends Lean Construction thinking from the project-level toward lifecycle and regionally embedded production systems. A research agenda and evaluation indicators are proposed to guide empirical validation and support the development of scalable circular housing systems. KW - Circular economy KW - BIM KW - Digital Twins KW - AI KW - Lean Construction KW - lifecycle analysis. PB - T2 - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34) DA - 2026/06/22 CY - Singapore, Singapore L1 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2459/pdf L2 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2459 N1 - Export Date: 19 June 2026 DB - IGLC.net DP - IGLC LA - English ER -