Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate the common perspective of value for
lean construction (LC) researchers and practitioners. Thus, this paper aims to generate a …

Extensive and increasing specialization in construction has prompted much criticism—that
fragmentation leads to poor performance. Such issues are magnified on engineering …

This paper explores the challenges that occur when collaborating organizations seek to
align multiple strategic objectives through a single construction project and examines those …

Mounting emphasis on construction supply chain management (CSCM) is due to both global
sourcing of materials and a shortage of labor. These factors force increasing amounts of …

The importance of managing the early design phases effectively and efficiently is relatively
well appreciated, although how best to do this is not so clear. The successful use of lean …

This systematic literature review aims to identify and compare the main participative
approaches to empowering users in construction projects. Whereas different approaches …

This paper consists of an exploratory literature review whose main research objectives were
the identification of the service quality factors that are considered more important in the …

This paper describes a study analysing the front-end of the design process for primary
healthcare facilities in the UK. A case study approach was used to gain a detailed …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to improve the understanding of what clients value
from contractors' services. Understanding client values and the way by which clients …

Every construction project is characterized by being complex. This complexity causes high
variability in the flows and one approach to mange this kind of production is to use situation …