Facilitate a more integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery process that results in better quality buildings at lower cost
Peter Cholakis
Improve facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build outcomes and reduce costs
A Transformative Approach to Construction Project Management that enables the consistent delivery of quality outcomes on time and on budget has been available for decades.
Any real property owner with requisite leadership skills and the commitment to fundamental process change can mitigate the excessive financial and environmental waste endemic to the repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction of buildings and other forms of physical infrastructure.
First... forget all the misinformation about both BIM and LEAN construction.
BIM is a digitalization tool and a 3D rendering technology, not a facilities management solution.?While some, including myself hope that BIM will eventually describe tools, processes, and technologies that are facilitated by digital machine-readable documentation about a building, its performance, its planning, its construction, and later its operation, hope is all there is at this point.
LEAN construction is not the application and adaptation of the underlying concepts and principles of the Toyota Production System (TPS) to construction.?TPS is an approach to manufacturing and not particularly relevant to "construction".?Secondly, much of what is inaccurately attributed to TPS, such as collaboration and leveraging the experience of those actually doing the work, focus upon outcomes and the customer, and continuous improvement had their origins back with Henry Ford, and even further back to the master builders in some cases.
Too much emphasis has been placed on solutions which focus mainly on peripheral issues such as enterprise resource planning systems rather than core processes. The three core organizational issues—people, process, and technology—have not been addressed with the required balance. - Koskela et al
Tools and support services are readily available to ensure consistent quality outcomes, on time and on budget for repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build projects.??Adopting a robust LEAN programmatic process facilitates a more integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery process that results in better quality buildings at lower cost and reduced project duration.
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Reach out if you are ready for a change. www.4bt.us
(Quote source - Interaction of Lean and Building Information Modeling in Construction Rafael Sacks, Lauri Koskela; Bhargav A. Dave, and Robert Owen)
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