WINTER CONCRETING PROCESS DESIGN IMPROVEMENT IN MODERN CONSTRUCTION

Case Studies in Construction Process Improvement

Construction industry reports by Latham [1994] and more recently Sir John Egan [1998], have highlighted the need for the construction industry to increase productivity, improve quality and reduce defects. In particular, the Egan report urged the industry to focus on construction processes as route to these improvements. However, the industry has not had a recognised framework or methodology to ...

Design Process Improvement

Standardised Process Improvement for Construction Enterprises

This paper describes the current status of the SPICE research project that is investigating the transfer of best practice from the I.T. industry to the construction industry. The research focuses specifically on the improvement of business processes and in particular the use of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). This model provides an evolutionary step-wise framework for process improvement a...

ICT-Based Improvement of Construction Procurement Process

The research by Maliranta and Rouvinen based on the Finnish industrial statistics confirms that the productivity improvements in ICT services in firms correlate to organizational and process changes. These results implied a further question: Which types of process changes create the most beneficial productivity improvements in different environments? In this paper we apply the Three Viewpoint M...

Striving for Continuous Process Improvement in Construction – a Case Study

Organisations must constantly monitor, measure, evaluate and improve their processes in order to remain competitive. Construction organisations are no different in this aspect and are increasingly realising the need for process improvement due to external and internal pressures. The construction industry is working towards improving its efficiency by implementing process improvement techniques ...