TY  - CONF
TI  - Approaching Construction as a Logistical, Economical and Social Process
C1  - Manchester, UK
C3  - 16th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
SP  - 27
EP  - 38
PY  - 2008
AU  - Andersen, Bjorn
AU  - Bolviken, Trond
AU  - Dammerud, Hege Skarbekk
AU  - Skinnarland, Sol
AD  - Researcher, Fafo, Institute for Applied Social Research, Borggata 2B, P.O. Box 2947 Tøyen, N- 0608 Oslo, bjoern.andersen@fafo.no
AD  - Director, Business Development and Strategy, Veidekke Entreprenør AS, P.O. Box 506 Skøyen, N-0214 Oslo, trond.bolviken@veidekke.no (Veidekke Entreprenør AS is a Norwegian subsidiary of Veidekke ASA, one of the major Scandinavian construction and real-estate-development companies)
AD  - Design manager, Veidekke Entreprenør AS, hege.dammerud@veidekke.no
AD  - Researcher, Fafo, Institute for Applied Social Research, Borggata 2B, P.O. Box 2947 Tøyen, N- 0608 Oslo, sol.skinnarland@fafo.no
ED  - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia 
ED  - Kagioglou, Mike 
AB  - Industrialised construction can be understood as production of commodities through a flow of transformations. The commodities have a dual character, possessing both usevalue and exchange value. This leads to the understanding of production as a physical/logistical process (producing use value) and an economical process (producing exchange value). However, the production process is always carried out by a group of people, by a social system. Understanding the social context under which the production process takes place is therefore crucial. If we do not understand “the social system of production”, our ability to understand and improve the production system will be limited. Improvements in the logistical process (the Last Planner System, Production System Design, etc) or in the economical processes (Value Chain Analysis, etc), will always have to be carried out within a specific social environment or system embedded in specific company cultures. In this paper we address the social infrastructure and the company culture of the construction processes as prerequisites for successful improvements in the logistical and economical processes in construction
KW  - flow of transformations
KW  - lean construction
KW  - physical logistics
KW  - social logistics
KW  - company culture
KW  - social infrastructure
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PB  - 
T2  - 16th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2008/07/16
CY  - Manchester, UK
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/543/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/543
N1  - Export Date: 16 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -