Lean Construction: Core Concepts and New Frontiers [Paperback]

General Introduction: Lean Construction: Core Concepts and New Frontiers;  Part 1: Lean Construction Themes;  1. Theory of Lean Construction;  2. Lean Product Development and Design Management;  3. The Last Planner System;  4. Production Control Systems for Construction at the Nexus of Lean and BIM  5. People and Knowledge: Lean Organisation;  6. Value Generation: Bringing the Customer into Perspective;  7. Understanding Waste in Construction;  Part 2: Lean Construction approaches;  8. Target Value Delivery;  9. Integrated Project Delivery - Basic Tenets and Recommendations;  10. Choosing by Advantages and Collaborative Decision Making;  11. Lean Construction: A Management Model for Interdependencies in Detailed Design;  12. Lean as an Appropriate Approach for Managing Production in Refurbishment Projects;  13. Extended Roles of Construction Supply Chain Management for Improved Logistics and Environmental Performance;  14. Location Based Management now and in the future;  15. Relating Construction Production Design and Planning Activities with Location-based Scheduling Techniques;  16. The Last Planner? System as an approach for coping with the complexity of construction projects;  17. Framework to manage project structural complexity: representation of the LPDS using Multi-domain matrix;  18. Uncertainty Management  A Development Area for Lean Construction;  19. The evolution of Lean Construction education at US-based Universities;  20. Challenges and opportunities for early project collaboration;  Index

This book collates the main research developments around Lean Construction over the past 25 years with contributions from many seminal authors in tl#'