December- 2021CONSTRUCTIONTECHREVIEW.COM8THINKING LEAN: FOR DIGITAL CONSTRUCTION DATABy Kevin Mchugh, Associate Director, MaceConstruction projects are complex and dynamic environments to manage and operate. Therefore, construction management is needed to ensure the specialist actions that are needed to produce modern buildings and all the parts of our incredibly complex physical infrastructure can be actioned efficiently. Modern projects are deploying digital solutions to support the project management functions, this construction technology is developing and increasing its functionality rapidly. The appetite for data collection is enormous and there is an increased focus on data analytics to measure performance. The idea being that with greater information collected will increase the margins and profitability of the project.Are we identifying the correct data streams to improve our productivity?It has been widely acknowledged that productivity in construction has been stagnant despite increased investment in technology.Studies focusing on construction efficiency have documented 25 to 50 percent waste in coordinating labour and in managing, moving, and installing materials. The increase of digitisation has not significantly improved productivity,so there is an opportunity to improve the data collection focus to produce positive outcomes to support a learning environment and promote systematic productivity improvements. There is a synergy between lean Construction methodology with collecting and managing digital information, identifying the valuable information and reducing information processing wastes.Lean construction has been seen as a countermeasure to poor productivity in construction, by using lean thinking, information is collected to identify and remove wastes in productivity. Deviations from planned work and dimensional deviation from installations are examples of production wastes. Kevin McHughIN MYOPINION
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