TY  - CONF
TI  - Teaching and Training Efforts of Academia and Industry Towards Lean Construction in India
C1  - Lille, France
C3  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
SP  - 651
EP  - 662
PY  - 2023
DO  - 10.24928/2023/0199
AU  - Sreram, Prashanth Kumar
AU  - Thomas, Albert
AD  - Research Scholar, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai,  Maharashtra 400076, India, +91 40 67359511, 194048001@iitb.ac.in, orcid.org/0000-0003-3961-5048 / 
Assistant Professor, School of Construction & Technology, National Institute of Construction Management and  Research, Jagganguda(V),Shamirpet(M), Hyderabad, Telangana 500101, India, +91 40 67359511,  psreram@nicmar.ac.in, orcid.org/0000-0003-3961-5048 
AD  - Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai,Mumbai,  Maharashtra 400076, India, +91 22 25767347, albert@iitb.ac.in, orcid.org/ 0000-0002-4924-6592 
AB  - Lean construction is gaining traction in India. While there are a few companies which have become first movers and gained advantages of lean implementation in construction projects, there still are many companies which still need to adopt lean construction. At this juncture, the role of academia and industry is vital for accelerating lean implementation. However, the studies indicating lean teaching and training efforts are limited in the Indian context. Therefore, research is conducted to explore how Indian construction companies are adopting lean and how academia is contributing to lean construction, which is the aim of the study. Multiple research methods are used to obtain information on lean implementation. The results indicate that organisations have started lean implementation mainly for cost and time benefits, but there is a difference in training their employees and trade partners. Academia is teaching lean construction majorly as an elective than as a compulsory course. Further, measures to accelerate lean implementation in India are proposed. Overall, this paper presents the efforts of industry and academia towards lean implementation in India and is a source of information for construction companies in emerging and developing economies wishing to initiate the lean journey. 
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - collaboration
KW  - education
KW  - process
KW  - change.
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
DA  - 2023/06/26
CY  - Lille, France
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2134/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2134
N1  - Export Date: 24 April 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -