Lean Construction Institute – Qatar
TRANSFORMING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Reading List
This is a list of recommended reading material that can be used as an introduction to recognize the lean concept and enhance personal knowledge on the subject.
Overview
What Is Lean Construction – 1999
by Gregory A. Howell (1999) Proceedings Seventh Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC-7, Berkeley, CA, July 26-28, pp. 1-10.
What Kind of Production Is Construction?
by Glenn Ballard and Greg Howell (1998) Proceedings Sixth Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC-6, Guaruja, Brazil, August 13-15.
Theory and Supporting Documents
The Prevalent Theory of Construction is a Hindrance for Innovation
by Lauri Koskela and Ruben Vrijhoef (2000) Proceedings Eighth Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC-6, Brighton, UK, July 17-19.
Interaction Between Subcycles: One Key To Improved Methods
by Gregory Howell, Alexander Laufer, and Glenn Ballard (1993) Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 119 (4) 714-728, December.
Parade Game: Impact of Work Flow Variability on Succeeding Trade Performance
by Iris D. Tommelein, David Riley, and Gregory A. Howell (1998) Proceedings Sixth Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC-6, 13-15 August held in Guaruja, Brazil, 14 pp.
Lean Project Delivery System™
by Glenn Ballard (23 September 2000 (Revision 1)) LCI White Paper-8.
“Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions – Back to the Future on Large Complex Projects”
by Robert Lane and Graham Woodman (2000) Proceedings 8th Annual Meeting of the International Group for Lean Construction, August 17-19, Brighton, UK.
by Glenn Ballard
Production Control
Shielding Production: An Essential Step in Production Control
by Glenn Ballard and Gregory Howell (1998) Journal of Construction Engineering in Management, ASCE, 124 (1) 18-24, January.
Lookahead Planning: The Missing Link in Production Control
by Glenn Ballard (1997) Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia, July.
Pull-driven Scheduling for Pipe-Spool Installation: Simulation of Lean Construction Technique
by Iris D. Tommelein (1998). J. of Constr. Engrg. and Mgmt., ASCE, 124 (4) 279-288.
by Iris D. Tommelein and Glenn Ballard (1997) Tech. Report No. 97-8, Constr. Engrg. and Mgmt. Program, Civil and Envir. Engrg. Dept., Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA. Also Proc. Second Intl. Seminar on Lean Construction, 20-21 October, organized by A.S.I. Conte, Logical Systems, São Paulo, Brazil.
Improving Work Flow Reliability
by Glenn Ballard (1999) Proceedings Seventh Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC-7, Berkeley, CA, July 26-28, pp. 275-286.
WorkPlan: Database for Work Package Production Scheduling
by Hyun Jeong Choo, Iris D. Tommelein, Glenn Ballard, and Todd R. Zabelle (1998) Proceedings Sixth Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC-6, 13-15 August held in Guaruja, Brazil, 12 pp.
Work Structuring
Case Study for Work Structuring: Installation of Metal Door Frames
by Cynthia C.Y. Tsao, Iris Tommelein, Eric Swanlund, and Gregory A. Howell (2000) Proceedings 8th Annual Meeting of the International Group for Lean Construction, August 17-19, Brighton, UK.
Work Structuring to Achieve Integrated Product-Process Design
by Tsao, C.C.Y., Tommelein, I.D., Swanlund, E., and Howell, G.A. (2004). ASCE, J. of Constr. Engrg. and Mgmt., Nov/Dec, 130 (6) 780-789.
Use of Work Structuring to Increase Performance of Project-Based Production Systems
by Cynthia C.Y. Tsao (2005) Ph.D. Diss., Dept. of Civil & Envir. Engrg., University of California, Berkeley, 325 pp.
Design
Wicked Problems and Social Complexity
by Jeffrey Conklin (2005)
The Parallel Between Product Development and Production and Building Design and Construction
by Thomas W. Mikulina (1998) Design Build Institute of America Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
Towards Lean Design Management
by Lauri Koskela, Glenn Ballard, and Veli-Pekka Tanhuanpaa (1997) Proceedings 5th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia, July.
Managing Work Flow on Design Projects
by Glenn Ballard (2000) Proceedings CIB W96, Atlanta, GA, May 19-20.
Positive vs Negative Iteration in Design
by Glenn Ballard (2000) Proceedings Eighth Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC-6, Brighton, UK, July 17-19.
Integrated Design Planning, Scheduling, and Control with Desplan
by Jamie Hammond, Hyung Jeong Choo, Simon Austin, Iris D. Tommelein, and Glenn Ballard (2000) Proceedings Eighth Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC-6, Brighton, UK, July 17-19.
Can Pull Techniques Be Used in Design Management
by Glenn Ballard. Presented at the Conference on Concurrent Engineering in Construction, Helsinki, Finland. August 26-27, 1999
Lean Supply
by Glenn Ballard and Gregory Howell (1995) Proceedings of the 1995 ARCOM Conference, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Sheffield, England.
Just-In-Time Concrete Delivery: Mapping Alternatives for Vertical Supply Chain Integration
by Iris Tommelein and Annie Li (1999) Proceedings Seventh Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC-7, Berkeley, CA, July 26-28, pp. 97-108.
More Just-In-Time: Location of Buffers in Structural Steel Supply and Construction Processes
by Iris Tommelein and Markus Weissenberger (1999) Proceedings Seventh Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC-7, Berkeley, CA, July 26-28, pp. 109-120.
Project Controls
Can Project Controls Do Its Job?
by Gregory Howell and Glenn Ballard (1996) Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Birmingham, England.
Is the Earned-Value Method an Enemy of Workflow
by Yong Woo Kim and Glenn Ballard (2000) Proceedings Eighth Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC-6, Brighton, UK, July 17-19.
Project Management
Systems Dynamics Modeling of Project Management
by John Sterman (1992) MIT, Sloan School of Management.
Reforming Project Management: The Role of Lean Construction
by Greg Howell & Lauri Koskela (2000) Proceedings Eighth Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC-6, Brighton, UK, July 17-19.
Lean Construction and EPC Performance Improvement
by Glenn Ballard (1993) Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the International Group for Lean Construction, Espoo, Finland, August, reprinted in Lean Construction, pp. 79-92.
by Greg Howell (July 17, 2000) Engineering News Record, McGraw Hill.
Case Studies and Implementation
Alliance Lean Design/Construct on a Small High Tech Project
by Robert S. Miles (1998) Proceedings Sixth Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC-6, 13-15 August held in Guaruja, Brazil, 27 pp.
by Michael Pappas (1999) extracted from Evaluating Innovative Construction Management Methods through the Assessment of Intermediate Impacts, thesis for a “Master of Science in Engineering”, University of Texas at Austin, 1999. A complete report is available through The Department of Architectural and Civil Engineering – ECJ 5.200, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78731.
by Glenn Ballard, Gregory Howell, and Michael Casten (1996) Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Birmingham, England.
Implementing Lean Construction: Understanding and Action
by Greg Howell and Glenn Ballard (1998) Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Guaruja, Brazil.
The Early Papers
by Glenn Ballard (1994) Northern California Construction Institute, Monterey, California, April.
Lean Production Theory: Moving Beyond ‘Can-Do’
by Gregory Howell and Glenn Ballard (1994) Proc. Conference on Lean Construction, Santiago, Chile, September, reprinted in Lean Construction, pp. 17-23.
Implementing Lean Construction: Stabilizing Work Flow
by Glenn Ballard and Gregory Howell (1994) Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the International Group for Lean Construction, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, September, http://www.vtt.fi/rte/lean/santiago.htm, reprinted in Lean Construction, pp. 101-110.
Implementing Lean Construction: Reducing Inflow Variation
by Gregory Howell and Glenn Ballard (1994) Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the International Group for Lean Construction, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, September, reprinted in Lean Construction, pp. 93-100.
Implementing Lean Construction: Improving Downstream Performance
by Glenn Ballard and Gregory Howell (1994) Proc. 2nd Ann. Conf. on Lean Constr. , Pontificia Univ. Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Sept., reprinted in Lean Construction, pp. 111-125.
Reports & Dissertations
The Last Planner™ System of Production Control
by Glenn Ballard (2000) PhD Dissertation, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Birmingham, U.K., May, 192 pp.
An Exploration Towards a Production Theory and its Application to Construction
by Lauri Koskela (2000) PhD Dissertation, VTT Building Technology, Espoo, Finland. 296 p., VTT Publications: 408, ISBN 951-38-5565-1; 951-38-5566-X
Application of the New Production Philosophy to the Construction Industry
by Lauri Koskela (1992) Technical Report No. 72, Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Stanford University, CA, September, 75 pages.
Introducing Lean Construction – Reforming Project Management
by Greg Howell, presented to the Construction User Round Table (CURT), November 14, 2001.
Selected Books
Modern Construction: Lean Project Delivery and Integrated Practices
by Lincoln H. Forbes and Syed M. Ahmed, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2011.
Lean Construction
by Luis Alarcon, A.A. Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1997.
by Eliyahu Goldratt, North River Press, 1990.
by Eliyahu Goldratt, North River Press, 1992.
by Hopp, W. & Spearman, M., Irwin McGraw Hill, Boston, 1996.
From the American System to Mass Production from 1800 to 1932
by David Hounshell.
by Dr. William Lareau.
Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting
by H. Thomas Johnson and Robert S. Kaplan.
by Terry Knott, The British Petroleum Co. ISBN 0 86165 202 9, 1996.
by Alexander Laufer, AMACOM, 1997.
Productivity Improvement for Construction Managers
by Oglesby, C.& Parker, H. McGraw Hill (Out of print).
Productivity Improvement in Construction
by Oglesby, Parker & Howell, McGraw-Hill, 1988.
Mike Rother and John Shook, Lean Enterprise Institute, 1998.
Cases in Production Operations Management
by Roger Schmenner, Prentice Hall, 5th Ed.
The Machine that Changed the World
by Womack, Jones & Roos, Harper Perrenial, 1990.
Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
by Womack & Jones, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 350 pp., 1996.
Lean Transformation: How To Change Your Business Into a Lean Enterprise
by Henderson, Bruce A., Larco, Jorge L. (Editor: Martin, Stephen H.), Oaklea Press, ISBN 0964660121, 1999, 288 pp.
Last Planner System
by Glenn Ballard and Iris Tommelein, 2016
Lean Construction Education Program (LCEP) of AGC
LCI-Q has entered in a collaboration agreement with the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) to facilitate Lean Construction Education Program (LCEP) and the examination of Certificate of Management – Lean Construction (CM-Lean) in the Middle East. CM-Lean exam will be offered on Saturdays at Qatar University.
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