Hi all I'm unsure how much interest this will be to you all but the Australian Institute of Building (AIB) is organising the 'Construct 2006' conference which...
Thanks. We are developing a study about piping productivity improvement in the Sulfide Primary Project in Cerro Verde - Arequipa - Peru (Copper Mine). There...
Dear IGLC Colleague, The Lean Construction Journal is our community's journal. We created this journal to widen the appeal, readership, understanding and...
Hey all, My name is Brianna Chesworth, 1'm a 20 year old University Student, currently studying the Bachelor of Construction Management (Building) Degree at...
... Brianna Great that you are interested in Lean Construction I'd strongly encourage you to read the abstracts for the IGLC conference currently running in...
As you can see from the attached, I have been closely involved in lean thinking (or lean construction as the construction industry would have it!) and supply...
Dear Colleagues, (apologies for cross-listing) I recently read a paper that stated that Lean Construction considers planning as a bad practice because it is...
Dear Sirs, Do the members of the group feel that the attached draft article might help clarify the link between lean thinking and lean constrution for those at...
[APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-LISTING] Lean Construction - A New Paradigm for Managing Construction 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean...
Greetings, I'm a new member of the IGLC group and a lean consultant with 15 years experience in shipbuilding, aerospace and defense manufacturing. I've...
Dennis, (Hope I've got the name right). I don't know if it will be of any help, but I've written several 'how to' action learniing books on supply chain...
Dennis, It may help members respond if you tell us where you are located. Rafael ... Dr. Rafael Sacks Structural Engineering and Construction Management ...
If colleagues would forgive my intervention, to be 'academic' means to be scholarly and intellectual, and most importantly to be rigorous in the way we justify...
Dear Stuart, The problem I have always had with 'academic' documents is that the day-to-day intense pressures of work at the sharp end (as an architect, a...
Dear Clive, The luxury of retirement alas is not yet upon me. You are of course quite entitled to your opinion that academic papers are a 'complete waste of...
Dennis... I´m in Monterrey, Mexico, working with a homebuilding construction group implementing the Lean concepts into the industry. As you might know,...
Greetings all, it seems that my posting has spurred a debate about the validity between academic vs practitioner papers. In my 15 years of lean manufacturing...
Hi Dennis, I just join a contracting firm in HongKong and like to look into application of lean construction practices in my team. Would you please tell me...
Dr Sacks, I am looking for a construction manager to work in Dubai for about 12 months. Do you have any potential candidates in mind? This position is required...
PK, I suggest you visit the www.iglc.net website, where you can find a large number of conference papers and other materials. Thee is also an annual conference...
<http://www.jobs.ac.uk/clients/110> Research Fellow Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC) School of the Built Environment ...
Dennis, You seem to be very silent. You have entered the fairly active IGLC – a group of researchers and practitioners who has for 15 years conducted studies...
Hello, Rafael and Dr. Kuan, my name is Carlos, I am a civil engineer from Colombia, finishing a masters in construction in the UK. Now well, to Dr. Chen, I...
Carlos, You are quite correct in saying that about 30% of construction costs are consumed by the ineffective use of labour. You are also correct in saying the...
Stuart, Just thinking through your response re: the usefulness of academic papers. The one area in which I might agree with Clive is to suggest that academic ...
Tim, To put some background to my earlier comments about academic papers, I ought to admit that as a simple architect I have always had trouble understanding...
Tim, Here lies one of the fundamental problems with lean principles. We eliminate those words that don't 'add value' to the currently dominant way of thinking,...
Stuart, You have also summed up beautifully why the supply chain management and lean thinking techniques that have been practiced so successfully in other...
