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During the past several decades, the manufacturing and service industries significantly increased their levels of productivity, quality, and profitability through the application of process improvement techniques and information technology. Unfortunately, the construction industry lags far behind in the application of performance improvement and optimization techniques, as well as its overall competitiveness. Written by Lincoln H. Forbes and Syed M. Ahmed, both highly regarded for leadership and innovation, Modern Construction: Lean Project Delivery and Integrated Practices offers cutting-edge lean tools and other productive strategies for the management of people and processes in the construction industry.
Drs. Forbes and Ahmed focus mainly on lean construction methodologies, such as The Last Planner(R) System, The Lean Project Delivery System (TM), and Integrated Project Delivery(TM). The tools and strategies offered draw on the success of the world-renowned Toyota Production System (TPS) adapted to the construction environment by construction professionals and researchers involved in developing and advocating lean construction methods. The book also discusses why true lean construction can best occur when all the construction stakeholders, owners, designers, constructors, and material suppliers are committed to the concept of optimizing the flow of activities holistically while de-emphasizing their self-interest.
The authors also reintroduce process improvement approaches such as TQM and Six Sigma as a foundation for the adoption of lean methodologies, and demonstrate how these methods can improve projects in a so-called traditional environment. The book integrates these methods with emerging interest in "green construction" and the use of information technology and Building Information Modeling (BIM), while recognizing the human element in relation to motivation, safety, and environmental stresses. Written specifically for professionals in an industry that desperately needs to play catch up, the book delineates cutting-edge approaches with the benefit of successful cases and explains how their deployment can improve construction performance and competitiveness.
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I have been a big fan of this book for over a year and am using it to advance knowledge of Lean Construction in our company, especially setting up what I find the most powerful tool: Last Planner System (tm) against our most repeatable process: PM-CM work management. This summer I expect the opportunity take a number of leaders of projects through study-action, engulfing the first seven chapters (200 pp) of this book with company teachings on The Toyota Way and making use of AGC LCEP: Lean Construction Education Program offerings, in short sessions as follows:
* Need for new approaches to construction (tied to Ch1)
* Transition from productivity measurement to process improvement (tied to Ch2)
* AGC Lean construction 101 (tied with Ch3) possibly AGC LCEP Module 1 & 2 workshop(s)
* Last Planner System(tm) (tied with Ch4)
* The Toyota Way 14-Principles and lean tools in construction projects (tied with Ch5)
* Lean Construction Applications and four Case Studies (Ch6)
* IPD contract "teaming" with case studies (tied with Ch7)
I want to thank the authors for enabling this knowledge growth in my company. Other credits: Last Planner System is a trademark and body of work from the Lean Construction Institute; LCEP is a product of The Associated General Contractors of America.;The Toyota Way is authored by Dr. Jeffrey K. Liker and published by McGraw-Hill.
By Tom Reed
Good text on Lean/IPD, I had the pleasure of having Dr. Forbes as a professor and he is a great instructor. The text is truly tailored to construction and Dr. Forbes wrote it as he could not find a text that was focused on construction. The text would be a great addition to both the construction professional/student and the industrial engineer.
By doubledub