Paper and Presentation: 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.
PMI Talent Triangle Skill: Technical Project Management
Biography: Charles is a doctorate research student at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. His research interest is in the area of lean construction where he hopes to develop a lean construction model for infrastructure highway projects. Over the last ten years, he has obtained a master’s degree in engineering project management from Coventry University in the United Kingdom where he graduated with a distinction. Prior to the commencement of his doctorate he was actively involved in the construction industry and held the position of the deputy project manager for a multi-million dollar building project in Nigeria andpossesses practical knowledge and experience with planning and managing complex projects and will bring his project management skills to ensuring the workshop is properly executed. For more information, visit https://ca.linkedin.com/in/charles-igwe
