Enhancing Construction Process Employing Lean Principles and Discrete Event Simulation

摘要: Traditional push-based planning systems often result in several types of waste due to mainly improper distribution of resources. Waste may have several adverse effects on a project, including the increases in cost, duration, and emission. Thus, the practitioners and researchers have provided various lean production tools such as pull concept, implementation of supermarket concepts, and standardization to reduce waste and to enhance the execution process. Although researchers have attempted to transfer some lean manufacturing principles to the construction industry in the last two decades, the employment of some lean concepts (e.g., pull, standardization) in the construction has been challenging. On the other hand, employing a lean concept before the construction phase can be beneficial in identifying the waste of execution process and subsequently reducing time and cost the project. To evaluate the …