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Abukhder, J S A (2004) A study of the management process on construction projects, and the development of a new notation system, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

Al-Hajj, A N (1991) Simple cost-significant models for total life-cycle costing in buildings, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Dundee.

Almalki, T S (2015) A study of the influence of trust on the relationships between team members in engineering projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

Asif, M (1988) Simple generic models for cost-significant estimating of construction project costs, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Dundee.

Chitengi, H S (2015) Deriving lessons for urban planning and housing delivery from the resilience of informal housing systems in Zambia, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee.

Forbes, D (2008) Identification and analysis of risks in the sustainability assessment of housing, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Dundee.

Gaber Abubakar, A (2016) Factors affecting maintenance labour productivity in the building industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Division of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

Hossain, M K (2015) Investigating the relationship between the culture of construction project-based organisations and the implementation of building information modelling, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Science and Engineering, University of Dundee.

Jarkas, A M (2005) An investigation into the influence of buildability factors on productivity of in situ reinforced concrete construction, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Division of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

Kiwan, M S A A (1994) Integration of building design and construction information: A neutral object-oriented model, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Dundee.

McGowan, P H (1994) Integrated cost and time models for measuring, valuing and controlling construction projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

Noor, I (1992) A study of the variability of labour productivity in building trades, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

Pearson, A D (2014) An investigation of climatically responsive ultra-low energy housing in rural Scotland: a case study, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

Radosavljevic, M (2003) Chaos in construction: labour productivity and its impact on planning and organisation of firms, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Division of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

Saket, M M (1986) Cost-significance applied to estimating and control of construction projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

Simon, M (2010) The commitment to corporate social responsibility of construction companies in the United Kingdom and Germany, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Dundee.

Taha, M (2022) Identifying legal frameworks impacting institutional investors' participation in infrastructure projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Dundee.

Talhouni, B T K (1990) Measurement and analysis of construction labour productivity, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

Thomson, C S (2006) A study of the innovation process within the construction project environment, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Division of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

Ward, S A (2015) Critical success factors for lean construction intervention, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Division of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

• Type: Thesis
• Keywords: lean construction; critical success factors
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• URL: https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/a08f9653-ee1c-4ab8-8776-7ae6233488c9
• Abstract:
  Despite the successful application of lean thinking across a wide range of industries, and a number of UK Government funded programmes such as the Construction Lean Improvement Programme and Constructing Excellence, the construction sector lags behind other sectors as highlighted in the Egan Report (1998) and more recently in Sir John Egan’s speech to the House of Commons in 2008 which gave the construction industry “four out of ten – for trying.” This led to the research question: What are the critical success factors for lean construction interventions? The emergence of lean production as a concept and the contributions of its key historic influencers are explored. Differences between construction and manufacturing are compared and discussed, and it is concluded that there is no practical reason why lean production cannot be successfully applied to construction operations. However, the issue of buildings being “rooted-in-place” is a potential barrier to true global competition. Progress was made towards a satisfactory definition of lean construction, a term hitherto ill-defined. Nineteen potential critical success factors (CSF) were identified in a literature review. A pilot study conducted with senior construction staff experienced in lean construction identified a further seven potential critical success factors and discounted three derived from the literature. Face-to-face interviews with thirty-one construction staff that had attempted lean construction interventions were conducted to examine the significance of each factor. Of the interventions, twenty-six were successful and six were failures. Statistical analysis compared the failure and success groups and of a total of twenty-three factors examined, thirteen were critical, two important, seven not critical and one unknown. Some of the most cited lean critical success factors, for example “There must be a crisis”, were shown to be not significantly important for the construction sector. Interdependencies between the statistically significant factors were explored and it was concluded that a wide concern with “getting buy-in” exists. Three factors appeared to possess a greater ability to influence all the others: the capability of management; client influence; and the right facilitator.

Whitehead, R C (1995) Factors influencing labour productivity on construction sites, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Dundee.

Zakieh, R (1991) Quantity-significance and its application to construction project modelling, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Dundee.