| dc.description.abstract | The interconnection of activities
required for the design and construction of
building and infrastructure involves the
interplay between people, technology,
situations, and decisions. It requires the astute
coordination of labor, materials, and plant to
realis the planned progress of work. Minimizing
waste maximizing value while continuous
improvement is the concept of lean. Lean
construction has proven to be an alternative for
such improvements so as the satisfy client by
creating customer value. Through its origins in
the Toyota Production System, lean is now
applied as an innovative way to manage the
design and construction of projects with the use
of tools which address project constraints, such
as complexities and uncertainties, among
others. This research is an effort to implement
lean construction concept to the Sri Lankan
road construction industry.
Research approach involved the use of primary
data, collected from Questioner survey and
semi-structured interviews with qualitative and
quantitative mixed type research. The foremost
objective was to optimize the cost, quality and
time in road construction with the application
of lean construction concept and identify most
important lean tool among 5S, Construction
process analysis, just in time, Value stream
mapping, Kanban and last planner and adapted
to road construction industry. Finally, the aim
is to identify the most important lean
construction tool for road construction
improvement. | |
