Recent studies suggest that Lean concepts can be successfully adopted only when it is aligned with the organizational culture (OC). The objective of this study is to understand the impact of prominent cultural dimensions on the different management levels of employees.

There is no agreed definition of lean construction. This is a problem for some and not for others in the lean construction community and beyond. Answers to the question 'what is lean construction?'' from a simple survey reported here, on the web and in the formal and informal literature reveal a diversity of views. The...

Maximizing the client value delivered from construction projects is to large degree a matter of maximizing the benefit in use of the built asset. To do so, we must be able to accurately assess the benefits of a proposed solution at the time of design. While some authors have looked at simulation solutions for examining...

The A3 report is a Kaizen tool that must contain, on one side of an A3 paper sheet, a context, the current situation, the objective, an analysis, countermeasures, an action plan, the monitoring and an upgrade regarding the situation to be improved. This study seeks to analyze the post-implementation effects of the A3 tool, which...

The prevalence of cost overruns in public sector construction projects in South Africa has been observed. This has been attributed to ineffectual approaches to cost management within these projects. The prior study by the authors has made sense of these observations an understanding of existing cost management approaches. Accordingly, this study seeks to identify Lean...