A Comparative Study between Lean Construction and the Traditional Production System

What is it about?

The growing context of globalization permanently increases pressure on the construction companies to improve their performances in order to resist to the constraints of competitiveness in the international market. It has become ineluctable to look for introducing a new alternative capable of bringing creative improvement to the traditional production system. This paper will relate mainly to the most relevant management techniques in the construction industry, and more specifically, the lean construction concept.

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Why is it important?

In this paper a rigorous comparative study has been carried out between the traditional construction techniques and Lean Construction. We demonstrated that by implementing lean construction philosophy the construction industry can benefit from avery wide margin to improve their organizational management system especially on the level of these three fields: Creating value and eliminating waste, Planning and mutual coordination and Site organization