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Spring 2023

Gholinezhad Dazmiri, Danial

Despite accounting for a tiny percentage of total construction expenses, a wasteful design process is more likely to cause delays or errors, resulting in low productivity, budget overrun, undesirable outputs and wasting resources. This study aims to examine the design process through Lean...

Spring 2017

Zhang, Youyi

This thesis describes the implementation of a production line assessment framework to help shift off-site modular construction manufacturing (MCM) from a conventional construction approach toward true manufacturing. The framework, which integrates Lean manufacturing construction and value stream...

Fall 2018

Flynn, Rachel

Background: Lean is a management system aimed at maximizing value by reducing waste and reconfiguring organizational processes that originated from the Toyota manufacturing industry. Lean is increasingly implemented as a quality improvement management system for healthcare. We conceptualize Lean...

Fall 2022

Shuvo,Badhon Das

Fabrication operations produce made-to-order structural components (such steel elements or precast concrete) for multiple construction projects, which require crews to repeat their work at a number of workstations or locations in a special manufacturing facility. Scheduling these interdependent...

Fall 2023

Keyrouz, Karl

Construction site conditions are suboptimal and current practices generate a lot of waste in all its forms (material, equipment, resources, etc.), hindering the true potential of productivity and value generation on construction sites. Lean Construction research studies oriented toward improving...

Spring 2012

van Mulligen, Calvin P

This thesis provides a methodology to incorporate building information modeling (BIM), lean construction, and simulation modelling into a cohesive package in the context of modular manufacturing. BIM was used to construct a three dimensional model from which the wall and object properties were...

Spring 2021

Diaz Hernandez, Nicolas

The construction industry is one of the major economic sectors that exert substantial influence on the state of the environment. There has been extensive research endeavors to develop methods and materials that are intended to turn this industry more cost-efficient while mitigating negative...

Spring 2014

Moghadam, Mansooreh

Modular construction manufacturing (MCM) is superior to the current on-site construction system which is hampered by inefficiency and material and process waste. Modular buildings are potentially built through a more efficient and cost-effective method, but in the current manufacturing-based...

Spring 2024

Pratama, Randy Agra

Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) has proved to be a technically and commercially successful methodology for recovering heavy-oil in Canada. At present, there are 22 commercial SAGD projects with over 300 pads and 2,700 well pairs, contributing to over 1.5 million bbl/day of production. The...

Fall 2023

Azakir, Omar

The construction industry has been long recognized for its low productivity, lack of digitalization, and a reduced appetite for innovation. This has shed light on industrialization as paradigm to ensure the successful implementation of construction projects through offsite construction methods....