Lean Design Management

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Emmitt is Professor of Architectural Technology in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. He is an architect and has written widely on design management in AEC. Klappentext This volume brings together authors from four continents to argue that lean thinking should be integral to design management in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC). It was published as a special issue of Architectural Engineering and Design Management. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together authors from four continents to argue that lean thinking should be integral to design management in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC). It was published as a special issue of Architectural Engineering and Design Management. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Lean Design Management 2. Layered Project–Layered Process: Lean Thinking and Flexible Solutions 3. An Empirical Study of Information Flows in Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering Design Teams using Lean Measures 4. Management of Waste in the Building Design Process: The Ghanaian Consultants’ Perspective 5. An Investigation into the Adoption of Target Costing on Brazilian Public Social Housing Projects 6. Introducing the Concept of First and Last Value to Aid Lean Design: Learning from Social Housing Projects in Chile 7. Integration of Lean Design and Design Management and its Influence on the Development of a Multidisciplinary Design Management Model for Remote Site Projects

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• Authors: Stephen Emmit, Stephen Emmitt, Stephen (Loughborough University Emmitt, Stephen (University of Bath Emmitt, Stephen Emmitt
• Assisted by: Stephen Emmit (Editor), Stephen Emmitt (Editor), Stephen (Loughborough University Emmitt (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2012
• EAN: 9781849714310
• ISBN: 978-1-84971-431-0
• No. of pages: 102
• Series: Architectural Engineering and Design Management; Architectural Engineering and Design Management
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering