TY  - CONF
TI  - Possibility of Applying Lean in Post-Disaster Reconstruction- An Evaluation Study
C1  - San Diego, California, USA
C3  - 20th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
PY  - 2012
AU  - Mojtahedi, S. Mohammad H.
AU  - Oo, Bee Lan
AD  - PhD Candidate, School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia, mohammad.mojtahedi@sydney.edu.au
AD  - Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia, bee.oo@sydney.edu.au
ED  - Tommelein, Iris D.
ED  - Pasquire, Chrisitne L.
AB  - Natural disaster management and the need to develop a resilient built environment for disaster-stricken community has always been the outstanding concern in many countries. Post-disaster reconstruction phase plays crucial role in recovery stage to cope with the impacts of natural disasters in reactive manner. The traditional views of post-disaster reconstruction activities have not been efficient and effective enough to develop shelters and permanent buildings on time, on budget and with acceptable quality. Furthermore, post-disaster reconstruction has often resulted in poor-quality built environment, waste of materials, delayed construction, and low-performed recovery. Therefore, contemporary tools and techniques should be applied by stakeholders in post-disasters reconstruction phase. Lean construction philosophy and introducing the individual elements of the lean philosophy probably seems to improve the post-disaster reconstruction. This paper evaluates the possibility of applying elements of lean thinking and lean construction in post-disaster reconstruction phase. For this purpose, this study scrutinizes pertinent lean construction studies to borrow the benefits of quick mobilization, pull scheduling, Just-in-Time, and Six Sigma approaches in order to apply them in post-disaster reconstruction phase. Finally, we propose to integrate some feasible lean construction approaches with post-disaster reconstruction in order to eliminate waste, improve the quality of built environment, smooth the work flow and enhance the performance of post-disaster reconstruction phase in recovery stage of natural disaster management.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - post-disaster reconstruction
KW  - disaster management
PB  - 
T2  - 20th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2012/07/18
CY  - San Diego, California, USA
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/809/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/809
N1  - Export Date: 20 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -