LEAN CONSTRUCTION PROCEDURES (LCP®)

Quick Guide to LEAN

What's  Old in "LEAN Construction"?

CE Dti 16.10.09 - news

• A decade or two of construction industry inexperience?

• "Clearly there are differences between making cars and building office blocks

• Since Sir John Egan's Task Force published its report Rethinking Construction in 1998, there has been some progress, but nowhere near enough. Few of the Egan targets has been met in full, while most have fallen considerably short.

• 73% of contracts exceed the tender price and 70% exceeded time estimates

  GCCP (1998)

Where improvement has been achieved, too often the commitment to Egan's principles has been skin-deep. In some sectors, such as housing, construction simply does not matter, because there is such limited understanding of how value can be created through the construction process. For the last decade, the industry has been sheltered by a healthy economy. This has enabled construction to prosper without having to strive for innovation. The current economic crisis is a perfect opportunity for us to think again. We can not afford to waste it. A call for LEAN renewal.

UK.GOV  24.06.10 -  news!

UK Government contact six million public sector workers and declare objective of "more Value for less" and "eradication of Waste"! Input sought from workforce.  Is this a case of an anonymous LEAN Procedure directive to resolve financial deficit crisis in UK? What could be the lessons?

1. Use or create a crisis for change
2. Use LEAN Thinking and Initiatives (Don't mention LEAN!)
3. Consult the "coal face", capture and filter ideas
4. Eradicate Waste and increase Value
5. Review and celebrate your success

And What's New in "LEAN Construction"?

1st September 2018 The Guardian

• Opening of the £15bn Crossrail line across London will be delayed by up to a year. The engineering scheme was facing increasing difficulties.



• After a series of problems and delays, and decades in the planning, the full scale of the problem is not known, with opening into 2020.

December 2018: London transport chiefs have announced up to £2bn in new financing to complete the delayed Crossrail project. It is hoped that the money - the bulk of which will come from the Greater London Authority (GLA) - will cover additional costs to allow completion by early 2020, though no new timetable has been set in stone. The problems, which led to the departure of Crossrail's chief executive and later its chairman Sir Terry Morgan, were the subject of an investigation led by accountancy firm KPMG. Its independent report concluded the £15.4bn project could cost between £1.6bn-£2bn more

A case for LEAN in the Construction Industry