International Conference on Construction and Real Estate Management 2016
Foundation for Balancing Resources and Flow Efficiency in Industrialized Construction
Publication: ICCREM 2016: BIM Application and Off-Site Construction
ABSTRACT
Construction companies traditionally try to optimize their resource efficiency to minimize costs. Today’s demand for value stream optimization along the whole supply chain cannot be resolved by that approach. To be able to strengthen the performance of the fragmented construction, supply chain measuring flow efficiency is essential to meet the customer’s demand of shorter lead times. A literature study and an exploratory case study on a construction company and its supplier have been done to map existing key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring both resource and flow efficiency. The outcomes from the literature study show possible KPIs and the connections between them. Results from the case study indicate that basic data for flow efficiency measurements exist in companies but these are underutilized. Balancing resource and flow efficiency is a challenge for all companies. Decisions made on how to manage production and construction affect this balance, thus creating a dynamic situation where the balance is different between building projects.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors would like to gratefully and humbly acknowledge TräCentrum Norr and EU:s structural funds for financial support. Furthermore, the companies presented in the research are gratefully acknowledged for time, openness and insights.
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ICCREM 2016: BIM Application and Off-Site Construction
Pages: 103 - 110
Editors: Yaowu Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Mohamed Al-Hussein, Ph.D., Professor, University of Alberta, Geoffrey Q. P. Shen, Ph.D., Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Yimin Zhu, Ph.D., Professor, Louisiana State University
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8027-4
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Published online: Aug 14, 2017
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