LEAN Construction is a process that integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery team to achieve optimal mutually beneficial outcomes.
- Owners, leadership and all participants must understand and support lean thinking and practices at programmatic and operational levels.
- Disparate skills are needed to design and implement an effective and flexible lean solution that adapts to changing conditions and is appropriate for all organizations.
- Leveraging essential lean principles, practices, and tools at a programmatic level results in the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build projects on time and on budget.
- Flow, kaizen, takt, gemba, 5S, six sigma, abnd pull systems like last planner are tools, but not integrated LEAN construction solutions.
- Creating, sustaining, and improving LEAN construction requires a fundamental understanding of Integrated Project Delivery and LEAN Job Order Contracting. (Note: most IPD and JOC applications to date are not LEAN.)
