Improving construction work flow - The connective role of lookahead planning

Proceedings of IGLC16: 16th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 635-646

  Hamzeh, Farook R ^a   Ballard, Glenn ^a,b   Tommelein, Iris D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Project Production Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Last planner system; Lean construction; Lookahead planning; Production control; Rationalizing production

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION WORKS; LAST PLANNER; LEAN CONSTRUCTION; LONG TERM PLANNING; LOOK-AHEAD; PLANNING PROCESS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL; SCHEDULING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 69949104826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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