Measures ofinformation flow for lean design in civil engineering

CME 2007 Conference - Construction Management and Economics: 'Past, Present and Future'

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1493-1504

  Tribelsky, Effi ^a   Sacks, Rafael ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Design management; Information technology; Lean thinking; Measurement; Project management

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; DATA AND INFORMATION; DESIGN MANAGEMENT; ENGINEERING DESIGN; INFORMATION FLOW GRAPHS; INFORMATION FLOWS; LEAN THINKING;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEASUREMENTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84877600788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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