1st Edition

Lean Design Management

Edited By Stephen Emmitt Copyright 2012
104 Pages
by Routledge

102 Pages
by Routledge

The fields of design management and lean construction appear to be developing independently. This volume brings together authors from four continents to argue that lean thinking should be integral to design management in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC). The publication brings together a variety of perspectives on lean design management as... Read more

1. Introduction: Lean Design Management  Stephen Emmitt  2. Layered Project–Layered Process: Lean Thinking and Flexible Solutions  Geir K. Hansen and Nils O. E. Olsson  3. An Empirical Study of Information Flows in Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering Design Teams using Lean Measures  Effi Tribelsky and Rafael Sacks  4. Management of Waste in the Building Design Process: The Ghanaian Consultants’ Perspective  E. Zoya Kpamma and T. Adjei-Kumi  5. An Investigation into the Adoption of Target Costing on Brazilian Public Social Housing Projects  Ana Mitsuko Jacomit and Ariovaldo Denis Granja  6. Introducing the Concept of First and Last Value to Aid Lean Design: Learning from Social Housing Projects in Chile  Christine Pasquire and Jose Salvatierra-Garrido  7. Integration of Lean Design and Design Management and its Influence on the Development of a Multidisciplinary Design Management Model for Remote Site Projects  Linda Kestle, Regan Potangaroa and Bryan Storey

Biography

Stephen Emmitt is Professor of Architectural Practice in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at theUniversity of Bath, UK. He is an architect and has written widely on design management in AEC.