Suitability of lean construction approach in project delivery

Abstract

It was established that the construction industry suffers frequent problems of cost and time overrun low productivity, poor quality and safety which seriously affects customer satisfaction. The ugly performance of the industry was attributed to the waste generation and non-value adding activities in the project delivery process. Lean construction approach adoption has shown significant success in addressing these problems in some developed countries. Lean construction is yet to be adopted in most of the developing countries, as is still new concept developed from Toyota that addresses these problems. This research review literature on progress achieved using lean construction approach in developed nation toward improving project delivery, and compare with the problems that exist in the current traditional approach. After critical review it was established that based on theory of knowledge finding, adopting lean approach will definitely address the problems that exist in current traditional approach of project delivery.