Laufer, A; Shapira, A and Goren, I (1998) Implementing an integrative approach to project schedule compression. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 5(1), pp. 82-92. ISSN 0969-9988
Abstract
The need to provide immediate housing solutions for hundreds of thousands of people in the early 1990's faced the Israeli construction industry with an unprecedented challenge: to multiply overnight its output and drastically cut construction time. It also created a unique opportunity to observe a national-level experiment of great magnitude aimed at meeting that challenge. The present paper reports on a study that examined how construction companies managed to cut housing construction time to half of what had been accepted earlier as a normal pace. This was achieved by implementing an approach that concurrently and integratively treats environment, technology and management determinants, creating a synergetic effect. The present paper introduces and demonstrates the integrative approach to schedule compression, and highlights the role of the environment.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | construction environment; construction management; construction time; housing construction; schedule compression; integration approach |
| Index terms: | construction company, experiment, integration, schedule compression, housing, residential construction, construction time, determinant, construction industry |
| Subjects: | construction integration, industry analysis, project controls, organizational analysis, organization, risk assessment, construction type, data collection methods, operations research |
| Topics: | Construction Technology, Risk Management, Research Practice, Business Strategy, Time Control, Organizational Design |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTE |
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