1st Edition

Building Lean, Building BIM Improving Construction the Tidhar Way

By Rafael Sacks, Samuel Korb, Ronen Barak Copyright 2018
420 Pages
by Routledge

420 Pages
by Routledge

420 Pages
by Routledge

Building Lean, Building BIM is the essential guide for any construction company that wants to implement Lean Construction and Building Information Modelling (BIM) to gain a strategic edge over their competition. The first of its kind, the book outlines the principles of Lean, the functionality of BIM, and the interactions between the two, illustrating them through the story of how Tidhar... Read more

1. Preface

2. Introduction: Growing the Margin

3. Early failures

4. Learning to See

5. Visualizing in 3D, Planning in 4D, Costing in 5D, Building in Reality

6. Non-Value Adding Work

7. Value-streams

8. Education, Motivating People, Gemba

9. BIM in the Big Room – Co-located Design

10. Problem Solving (Continuous Improvement)

11. Work in Progress (WIP)

12. Reduce Planning Resolution

13. What Flows in Construction?

14. Value for Customers

15. Designing the Product for Production System Design

16. Driving Production Off-site

17. Production Planning and Control in Construction

18. Respect for People

19. Leadership

20. Conclusion

Biography

Rafael Sacks is Professor in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Samuel Korb is a graduate student in the department of Civil Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Ronen Barak is a Civil Engineer and researcher of BIM and computer applications for construction. He is responsible for and directly involved with the entire Lean and BIM journey at Tidhar Construction.