Talk:Lean in building and construction industry

Anna: It is very interesting to look into Lean management and the benefits/limits of this. However, it is a very broad subject and i suggest you try to pick one tool/method that is used within Lean Management and really focus on this. I can see that you have created headings for a lot of different tools, so you already know some of the topics you can choose from. You could for example choose the tool you find the most relevant for the building and construction industry

S150801 Reviewer 2

Overall impression

• A tidy article, with a good overview.
• The structure is nice and logical built up.
• I think is an interesting text, and easy to read.

Rooms for improvement

• I did not find any explanation of what “Muda” is, could you make a short description or link to an hyperlink about it.
• Maybe bullet point the seven unnecessary wasting activities. Transportation, inventory/stock, motion, waiting, over-processing, over production and defects.
• I did not quite understand what “shift in the industry”, and which industry are you talking about in Chapter “Lean management versus Lean construction” at the end.
• I am Missing Bibliography to read some more.
• And it would be nice with some illustrations, to make your points clearer.

But overall a really good article.

s141931 Reviewer 3

• In general, the writing style, the academic language and format are good
• The article has a nice logical flow and the parts are well tied together
• Since LEAN is a general optimization tool, you could try to define a stronger relation to project management
• You could expand the description of IPD by explaining how this tool actually works
• The parts of Kaizen, LPS and JIT look a bit out of the context. Not that they are irrelevant, but it would be nice to relate them to the previous parts in order to improve the logical flow.
• The article is missing graphical aids. It would be beneficial if you could complement it with any relevant figures or graphs in order for the reader to grasp and memorize the idea easier.
• In general, a good article. It is easy and interesting to read, it provides with useful knowledge, and is based on an extensive list of references, however the annotated bibliography is missing.