Application of Lean Management Techniques for Achieving Energy Efficiency in Building Construction: Procurement and Handling of Building Materials

Abstract:

Various studies in the construction industry have been conducted to develop the best practice that is only not capable of improving organization profit but also assists in producing a systematic work process which will encourage the optimal use of resources. Concurrently, the emergence of the lean construction concept is seen as a current approach that can be used to produce best practices because it is viewed as an effort to bring construction industry towards a more optimum productivity level with the efficient usage of resources as well as to produce the utmost value. This paper attempts to draw a correlation between the adoption of lean management principles and the energy utilized during the construction process.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 678)
• Pages: 135-143
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.678.135
• Online since: February 2016
• Authors: M.P. Devaki
• Keywords: Handling, Lean Management, Material, Procurement, Waste

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