TY  - CONF
TI  - Integrating lean construction, lean office, and business intelligence in a Panamanian sanitation project
C1  - Singapore, Singapore
C3  - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34)
SP  - 260
EP  - 271
PY  - 2026
DO  - 10.24928/2026/0285
AU  - Osorio-Gómez, Cristian Camilo
AU  - Etges, Bernardo Martim Beck da Silva
AU  - Pieta, Enrico
AD  - Assistant Professor, School of Applied Sciences and Engineering, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia, ccosoriog@eafit.edu.co, orcid.org/0000-0003-4141-1052
AD  - PhD Candidate, M.Sc. Eng. at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul; Founding-Partner at Climb Consulting Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil, bernardo@climbgroup.com.br, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3037-5597
AD  - Project Manager, Consulting, Climb Consulting Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil, enrico@climbgroup.com.br
ED  - Hamzeh, Farook
ED  - Poshdar, Mani
ED  - Garcia-Lopez,, Nelly P.
AB  - In the construction sector, inefficiencies are high due to fragmented work, inadequate designs, and poor team coordination. In this way, this situation is also reflected in infrastructure projects. Lean Construction is a project management philosophy that significantly increases productivity in construction projects; however, there is limited literature on its implementation in sanitation projects. For this reason, the primary objective of the research was to jointly implement Lean Construction (LC), Lean Office (LO), and Business Intelligence (BI) to enhance the overall project productivity across design, fieldwork, and quality monitoring. The research method is primarily a case study in a US$60 m-plus sanitation megaproject in Panama with more than 45km of sanitation networks. The main results indicate significant improvements in design speed, sanitation pipeline execution, and error reduction. Finally, this LC, LO & BI framework can serve as a new framework of reference for the design/execution of projects, with greater transparency of information, execution capacity, and integration with the public sector and multilateral banks.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - business intelligence
KW  - lean office
KW  - sanitation project.
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/2567/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2567
N1  - Export Date: 19 June 2026
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -