TY - CONF TI - The Relationship Between Information Flow and Project Success in Multi-Disciplinary Civil Engineering Design C1 - Haifa, Israel C3 - 18th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction SP - 140 EP - 150 PY - 2010 AU - Thibelsky, Effi AU - Sacks, Rafael AD - PhD, Lt.-Col., Israel Air Force, effitrib@gmail.com AD - Associate Professor, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 840 Rabin Building, Technion Campus, Haifa 32000, Israel, Phone +972-4-8293190, cvsacks@technion.ac.il ED - Walsh, Kenneth ED - Alves, Thais AB - Civil engineering projects are characterized by complex products developed by teams of consultants who have been selected for their individual unique skills and knowledge. One of the central difficulties in the work of a design team is to achieve smooth and continuous flow of information. Phenomena such as bottlenecks, rework, large batches and long cycle times are common. We hypothesize that these adversely impact the teamwork and reduce the quality of their work. Tools developed to visualize the flows of information in the design process and a set of computed analytical measures designed to quantify the flows were applied to a sample set of 14 civil engineering projects that were part of a major airport construction project. The measures indicate the presence or absence of bottlenecks, rework, large batches and long cycle times. The degree of success of each of the design processes of the sample projects was recorded independently through a series of interviews with the various participants and stakeholders in the projects. Comparison between the occurrences of phenomena associated with poor information flow, on the one hand, and the degree of success of the detailed design phase of the projects, on the other, revealed a high degree of correlation. KW - Case studies KW - Design management KW - Information flow KW - Project management. PB - T2 - 18th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction DA - 2010/07/14 CY - Haifa, Israel L1 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/722/pdf L2 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/722 N1 - Export Date: 29 March 2024 DB - IGLC.net DP - IGLC LA - English ER -