Visualizing Daily On-site Space Use

Bascoul, Audrey M.; Tommelein, Iris D.

doi:10.24928/2017/0258

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“…This gave her the opportunity to attend weekly subcontractor meetings, observe work on site daily, and directly interact with trades and superintendents. The next sections describe how she used action research to develop and implement the spatiotemporal model with two objectives in mind: (1) to avoid trade stacking and (2) to identify areas where no-one was working so that trades could be spatially re-allocated to work in those areas (Bascoul and Tommelein, 2017).…”

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Visual Management of Daily Construction Site Space Use

Bascoul

Tommelein

Douthett

2020

Front. Built Environ.

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Space is a construction resource not to be overlooked during project scheduling, production planning, and control. When space use over time is not planned, trades may get stacked in areas of the jobsite that are labor intensive, which may hamper productivity and cause safety concerns. Augmenting traditional scheduling representations, spatiotemporal modeling in construction considers both space and time to depict ongoing construction work. This paper presents a simple space scheduling program called LoSite that helps workers involved in doing the work visualize the work schedule, facilitates production control, and fosters transparency in daily coordination of work space among trades. LoSite was implemented in Microsoft Excel. The researchers prototyped, deployed, and tested the space scheduling program to visualize construction work being done during the interiors phase of an open-space office building. Successes of the program as well as limitations to its full adoption by the team are discussed in this paper. LoSite delivers proof-of-concept that spaceuse visualization, even on a large-scale project, can be accomplished effectively using software that is readily available and familiar to many people.

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Visual Management of Daily Construction Site Space Use

Bascoul

Tommelein

Douthett

2020

Front. Built Environ.

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“…The use of VM devices like Kanban, Poka-yoke and Andon systems to solve construction problems due to a lack of flow understanding and reduced process transparency due to physical borders (walls and piles of materials) has been widely studied; several studies have reported successful results (e.g., Tezel et al 2010;Biotto et al 2014;Bascoul et al 2017;Brandalise et al 2018).…”

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The Role of Digitalized Visual Management to Empower Selfmanaged Crews in Construction Projects

Reinbold

Seppänen

Peltokorpi

2020

Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)

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This theoretical study encompasses the role of digitalization in visual management (VM) applied in construction projects to increase the situational awareness (SA) of construction workers and crews. A literature review on VM, SA and self-managed crews shows that the level of digitalization in the construction industry is low when compared to other industries, that information silos are a common practice and that the decision-making processes depend largely on the construction manager role, causing a bottleneck of information and repeated time waste. As more digitalization enters construction sites and the amount and quality of available data increases, appropriate use of this data can bring meaningful improvement to construction site management. The study shows that using updated and real-time data for VM devices can increase information flow among construction workers and crews, increasing SA throughout the construction project. This can enable the construction crews to be more autonomous and self-managed, resulting in decentralized decision-making processes to solve task-related problems. Further steps for empirical research are suggested.

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“…It makes these unplanned tasks visible to all users.  LOSite (Bascoul et al, 2017): LOSite is a location-based scheduling program that aims at visualizing the space between all subcontractors on projects. This program manages the space on site, hence facilitating production control.…”

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SyncLean: An Application for Improved Lean Construction Practice

Ghossaini¹,

Dehaini²,

Alruzz³

et al. 2018

26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction

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Visual management (VM) is instrumental in implementing lean construction philosophy and principles. The lack of communication and sharing of information among construction professionals in construction projects hinders workflow. Visual management improves the performance of workers and optimizes workflow. This paper introduces a mobile application, Synclean, inspired by the virtual Obeya room of Toyota Production Systems (TPS) to ease the transfer of information between site personnel. Synclean will boast a user-based task manager, showing the weekly tasks schedule, covering task descriptions and constraints while including a Kanban-like notification system that addresses tasks for each participant. SyncLean provides the needed platform for signalling the end and start of tasks to those responsible directly, all while holding accessible information in the cloud associated with these tasks like drawings and work methods. These and other features will ensure Synclean is relevant to the very last planner on construction sites and will support collaborative value-adding, wasteminimizing work. The application mobile interface was tested by users and the impact of this application was tested by surveying site personnel of various positions for the application's necessity. Results show the need for a visual tool like Synclean to bridge the communication and information sharing gap between site personnel.

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Visualizing Daily On-site Space Use

Cited by 7 publications

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Visual Management of Daily Construction Site Space Use

Visual Management of Daily Construction Site Space Use

The Role of Digitalized Visual Management to Empower Selfmanaged Crews in Construction Projects

SyncLean: An Application for Improved Lean Construction Practice

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