TY  - CONF
TI  - Operationalizing lean project control through data-driven weekly reasoning
C1  - Singapore, Singapore
C3  - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34)
SP  - 214
EP  - 226
PY  - 2026
DO  - 10.24928/2026/0261
AU  - Mengiste, Eyob T.
AU  - Soto, Borja Garcia de
AD  - Instructor, Civil and Urban Engineering Program, Researcher, S.M.A.R.T Construction Research Group, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE, eyob.mengiste@nyu.edu, orcid.org/0000-0002-4841-7476
AD  - Associate Professor, Civil and Urban Engineering Program, Director, S.M.A.R.T Construction Research Group, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE, garcia.de.soto@nyu.edu, orcid.org/0000-0002-9613-8105
ED  - Hamzeh, Farook
ED  - Poshdar, Mani
ED  - Garcia-Lopez,, Nelly P.
AB  - Lean construction emphasizes flow, pull-based planning, and continuous risk management; however, its practical implementation still is very labor-intense and relies heavily on periodic meetings, manual interpretation of fragmented data, and lagging indicators of project performance. This paper presents an automated operationalization framework for Lean project management decision-making. The framework fuses standard project documentations such as periodic site observations, structured textual reports, and approvals into a continuously updated temporal representation of the project state. This fusion of information is used to evaluate constraints and estimate the execution readiness level of tasks. Moreover, this framework helps project managers detect workflow disruptions and constraint-related risks and generate Lean-consistent execution alternatives. The paper provides the system architecture, data integration logic, and reasoning mechanisms, and validates the approach through an automated deployment over 16 consecutive weekly planning cycles of a real construction project, demonstrating its feasibility as an operational tool for Lean project control.
KW  - MCTS
KW  - multi-armed bandits strategy
KW  - constraint management
KW  - LPS
KW  - lookahead.
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/2552/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2552
N1  - Export Date: 19 June 2026
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -