An improvement in construction planning: Last Planner System ® = Una mejora en la planificación de la construcción: el sistema del último planificador

Pérez, Miguel Ángel Álvarez; Severino, Manuel José Soler; Armiñana, Eugenio Pellicer

doi:10.20868/bma.2019.2.3924

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“…Previous studies have analysed and confirmed the causal link between workflow variability reductions and project performance improvements (Howell et al. , 2004; Choy and Ruwanpura, 2006; Pérez et al. , 2019).…”

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Study on the construction workforce management based on lean construction in the context of COVID-19

Jiang

Zhong

Chen

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PurposeThe construction industry is facing challenges not only for workers' mobility in the pandemic situation but also for Lean Construction (LC) practise in responding to the high-quality development during the post-pandemic. As such, this paper presents a construction workforce management framework based on LC to manage both the emergency goal in migrant worker management and the long-term goal in labour productivity improvement in China.Design/methodology/approachThe framework is created based on the integrated culture and technology strategies of LC. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods is taken to explore factors influencing the mobility of construction workers and to measure labour productivity improvement. The case study approach is adopted to demonstrate the framework application.FindingsFor method application, a time-and-motion study and Percent Plan Complete indicator are proposed to offer labour productivity measurements of “resources efficiency” and “flow efficiency”. Moreover, the case study provides an industry level solution for construction workforce management and Lean Construction culture shaping, as well as witnesses the LC culture and technology strategies alignment contributing to LC practise innovation.Originality/valueCompared with previous studies which emphasised solely LC techniques rather than socio-technical system thinking, the proposed integration framework as well as implementation of “Worker's Home” and “Lean Work Package” management models in the COVID-19 pandemic contribute to new extensions of both the fundamental of knowledge and practise in LC.

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“…Therefore, LPS was developed to shield downstream operations from upstream variability (Ballard and Howell, 1994) and the Last Planner tool is advised to be compared to and complemented by, to a certain degree, measuring productivity (Choy and Ruwanpura, 2006; González et al. , 2008, 2010; Pérez et al. , 2019).…”

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Study on the construction workforce management based on lean construction in the context of COVID-19

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Zhong

Chen

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“…is format shows what will be done in the coming four to six months. And it helps to forecast the resources needed for each activity (5) Weekly work plan: at this stage, constraint-free tasks are made ready for the coming week. Apply quality criteria (definition, size, sequence, soundness, and learning).…”

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“…e Last Planner system owes its origin to the studies by Professors Glenn Ballard and Greg Howell of the University of California at Berkeley, United States, in the 90s, and their knowledge of Professor Lauri Koskela, of the University of Helsinki, Finland. ese works were formalized in scientific articles within the Lean Construction Institute, which they founded together [5].…”

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The Usefulness of Adopting the Last Planner System in the Construction Process of Addis Ababa Road Projects

Limenih

Demiss

Haile

2022

Advances in Civil Engineering

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Addis Ababa road construction projects fail to be executed on time, within the allocated budget, and with the desired quality. To solve this problem, a new management concept is introduced, namely, lean construction. It is known to increase productivity and minimize waste. And, to realize this solution, last planner system (LPS) is used; it is a tool of lean construction and it involves a person or group of people with the task to control the production unit. The objectives of this study are to examine the current construction process management practice in Addis Ababa city road construction projects, to identify and prioritize the expected barriers of the last planner system implementation in Addis Ababa road construction projects using the super decision model, to identify and prioritize last planner system implementation benefits to Addis Ababa road construction projects using the super decision model, and to develop a conceptual framework for the last planner system implementation to enhance the current construction management system in Addis Ababa city road construction projects. To address the problems, questioners, observations, interviews, focus group discussions, and recently published journals were employed as qualitative and quantitative data collection tools and analyzed using statistical package for the social science version 26 and super decision model version 3.2. The finding shows that the construction management process adopted in all three sites is more or less similar, as they use a push planning system and critical path method to determine the duration following the master schedule but have no weekly work plan and lookahead schedule to forecast the coming week’s duty; also, they use a push planning system, for materials. The LPS implementation expected barriers are also ranked from one to five: Labor related, internal working environment related, stakeholders related, exogenous related, and material related expected barriers, respectively. The last planner system has many benefits as agreed by different scholar. Time-related, cost-related, claim-related, and quality-related benefits are the main benefits obtained through the LPS implementation, and it is possible to conclude that LPS is useful for road construction management process. Moreover, the LPS implementation conceptual framework was also developed based on the last planner system principles.

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Online Monitoring and Implementation of Commitment Management Performance and Its Impact on Project Planning in Four Construction Projects

Retamal

Salazar

Alarcón

2022

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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An improvement in construction planning: Last Planner System ® = Una mejora en la planificación de la construcción: el sistema del último planificador

Cited by 3 publications

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Study on the construction workforce management based on lean construction in the context of COVID-19

Study on the construction workforce management based on lean construction in the context of COVID-19

The Usefulness of Adopting the Last Planner System in the Construction Process of Addis Ababa Road Projects

Online Monitoring and Implementation of Commitment Management Performance and Its Impact on Project Planning in Four Construction Projects

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