House Of Waste: What It Is and Its Implication For Project Management
Abstract:
The ability of construction projects in satisfying the key performance indicators of time, quality and cost has long been the subject of concern to industry practitioners and the academia over the years. Many project management tools, techniques, and processes have been suggested as means of managing projects to ensure that they better meet the expectations of stakeholders but these have not been entirely successful in improving value. The underlying principle of lean thinking in construction is to enhance value through the elimination of waste and this study focuses on prioritising the wastes asso-ciated with the lean construction paradigm using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). A new concept known as the house of wastes was introduced to elucidate the in-terconnection of the lean wastes. The goal of this research is to identify and rank the pa-rameters required to facilitate waste reduction to improve the management of construc-tion projects.
