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The Indian construction industry is characterized by major challenges such as low productivity and time and cost overruns. Poor work structuring is one of the major causes that leads to low productivity and time and cost overruns. Work Structuring is defined as a process that tries to align engineering design, supply chain, resource allocation and execution. The main objective of work structuring is to make the processes faster and more reliable while delivering the product to the client. This project mainly focuses on the construction supply chain-related issues to improve the construction process workflow. There are a lot of non-value-adding activities or wastes in construction practices and many among those were left unnoticed. Earlier studies have shown that there were significant amounts of values loss due to construction process flow wastes and tremendous productivity improvements can be achieved by simply targeting at reducing those waste and improve the process flow. Case studies have been carried out of different construction sites to find out the various wastes involved in the construction process. This project was conducted on the basis to study the waste concepts and the level of “leanness” in local construction practices based on philosophies and principles are drawn by Lean Construction.
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Rajprasad, J., Saimohanreddy, P., Pannirselvam, N., Manivel, S. (2022). Implementation of Lean Techniques in Construction Projects. In: Loon, L.Y., Subramaniyan, M., Gunasekaran, K. (eds) Advances in Construction Management. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 191. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5839-6_37
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