Lean Construction 4.0

Vicente A. González is a Professor within the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Alberta, Canada. He holds a Construction Engineering (Hons) degree from the University of Valparaiso, Chile, and ME and PhD degrees from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. Before joining the University of Alberta, Vicente was a faculty member at The University of Auckland (New Zealand) for over 12 years, where he currently holds an Honorary Academic position. His research interests are at the interface of Construction Engineering and Management and Computer Science, pioneering the Lean Construction 4.0 concept. He has secured USD 45+ million in research and teaching grants, and the largest corporate sponsorship in the history of the University of Auckland. Vicente is a prolific author, and member of editorial boards and international construction engineering and management organizations. He has supervised to completion over 100 undergraduate research projects, and Master and PhD theses over his career. Farook Hamzeh, PhD, UC Berkeley, is a Lean Construction expert. His theoretical and applied research in the US, Canada, and the MENA region aim at improving the design and construction of projects. Farook is an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta. He was full time faculty at Colorado State University and at the American University of Beirut. He is an active member of the International Group of Lean Construction (IGLC) and has published heavily on Lean Construction and related topics. Farook has worked for more than seven years in the construction industry on several mega projects: the $1.7 Billion Cathedral Hill Hospital in San Francisco, the 333 m high Rose Rotana Hotel in Dubai, Losail motor-bike racetrack in Qatar, Olympic Tower in Qatar, Al-Amal Oncology Hospital in Qatar, Serail 1374 Building in downtown Beirut, and Sibline Cement factory second production line in Lebanon. Luis Fernando Alarcón is a Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Production Management Center (GEPUC) at the Catholic University of Chile (PUC). He obtained his Engineering degree from PUC and a MEng, MS and a PhD from UC Berkeley. He has been actively involved in research on Lean Construction, risk modeling, and IT in construction. He is a founding member of the International Group for Lean Construction, a member of the Chilean Institute of Engineers, the Pan American Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Construction in the US.

Part 1. Introduction 1. Chapter 1. Lean Construction 4.0: Beyond the New Production Management Philosophy. Part 2. Theoretical and Practical Perspectives for Lean Construction 4.0. 2. Towards Lean Construction Site 4.0 – Integrating Lean and Digital Technologies. 3. The Implications of the 4.0 Revolution in the AEC industry on the Lean Construction Paradigm: Identifying the Status Quo and Drawing the Path Forward. 4. Proposing a House for Lean Construction 4.0. 5. A Shared Responsibility: Ethical and Social Dilemmas of Using AI in the AEC Industry. 6. The interplay between Construction Supply Chain and BIM through Kitting: A Lean-based view. 7. Implementing Lean-BIM duality: Balance between people, processes, and technology. Part 3. Simulation Modelling and Virtual Lean Construction. 8. Simulation and Modelling Facets in Lean Construction. 9. Modelling Construction Production Environments as Complex Adaptive Systems. 10. Social Network Analysis to Support Implementation and Understanding of Lean Construction. 11. Exploring the Socio-Technical Nature of Lean-Based Production Planning and Control using Immersive Virtual Reality. Part 4. Digital Production Planning, Control and Monitoring in Lean Construction. 12. MetViz: LPS Metric Visualization, Monitoring and Analysis System for Project Control. 13. Productivity Function - Mathematical foundation for Production Management in Construction. 14. Digital Twins to Enable Flexibility in Offsite Construction. 15. Use of the Digital situation picture to decrease waste in the design and construction process. 16. UAS applications to support Lean Construction implementation. Part 5. Digital Lean Project Delivery. 17. Integrating project delivery and Information Technology: challenges and opportunities. 18. Blockchain Governance for Integrated Project Delivery 4.0. 19. Decision Models to Support the Selection and Implementation of Lean Construction. Part 6. Concluding Remarks. 20. The Future of Lean Construction 4.0.