Industrialization in swedish bridge engineering: A case study of lean construction

Lean Construction: A New Paradigm for Managing Capital Projects - 15th IGLC Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 244-253

  Simonsson, Peter ^a   Emborg, Mats ^b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Research and Development   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bridge design; Concrete; Full scale test; Industrialisation; Lean; Logistics; Prefabrication; Productivity; Reinforcement; Waste

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE DESIGN; FULL SCALE TESTS; INDUSTRIALISATION; LEAN; PREFABRICATION;

CONCRETES; DESIGN; INDUSTRY; LOGISTICS; PRODUCTIVITY; REINFORCEMENT; SELF COMPACTING CONCRETE; WASTES;

BRIDGES;

EID: 84856633500     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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