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LEAN,GREEN, BUILDING AND RECYCLING
REFERENCES:
GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL: http://www.usgbc.org/
LEAN CONSTRUCTION
Case Studies: http://www.leanconstruction.org/pdf/CM_5Ss_Article.pdf
"The 5S’s came to America as part of the Lean Thinking movement in the
1990s.
They are: Sorting; Simplifying; Sweeping; Standardizing; and
Self-discipline.
One shop rearranged its deliveries from a supplier so that all three semi-trucks did not arrive the first thing Monday morning. This had required them to unload the trucks and find places to put the inventory until they could move it
with the current inventory.
Ted Angelo of the Grunau Co. in Milwaukee tells how the mechanical contractor used the 5S’s in its main yard last November. He said the yard, like those of most construction companies, was littered with stacks of material returned from jobs and saved for “just-in-case” situations. It also was crowded
with equipment and material being made ready to go out.
Another company looked at its tool repair process and was able to save eight to nine hours a week in the repair technician’s time by rearranging where
parts and tools were kept and the priority for repairing tools.
Organized gang boxes can save time looking for tools.
At the Grunau Co. a technician took a Rubbermaid cart and fixed it up so he could keep his tools at jobs that took two to three days. He could roll it in and
leave it overnight.
You can even do a 5S’s on your computer too. That can save a lot of time in
looking for electronic files.
Other ideas that construction companies report having done are:
LEAN CONSTRUCTION INSTITUTE: http://www.leanconstruction.org/
| The Lean Construction Institute, (LCI) was founded in August 1997 and is now a non-profit corporation. We do research to develop knowledge regarding project based production management in the design, engineering, and construction of capital facilities. We aim to extend to the construction industry the Lean production revolution started in manufacturing. This approach maximizes value delivered to the customer while minimizing waste. A set of Introductory Readings about Lean Construction is now available on the Readings page. We understand that designing and building is different from manufacturing, but principles drawn from Lean Production Management can be applied through techniques tailored for application over the life of a project. Taken together these principles and techniques form the basis for a Lean Project Delivery System.™ Corporate Members of LCI support this research, participate in regular research meetings and implementation meetings. Those contributing at the highest level provide the laboratory to test and refine theory through application in practice. In return, they become industry leaders through the early application of this powerful new approach. |
GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL: http://www.usgbc.org/
LEAN CONSTRUCTION
Case Studies: http://www.leanconstruction.org/pdf/CM_5Ss_Article.pdf
"The 5S’s came to America as part of the Lean Thinking movement in the
1990s.
They are: Sorting; Simplifying; Sweeping; Standardizing; and
Self-discipline.
One shop rearranged its deliveries from a supplier so that all three semi-trucks did not arrive the first thing Monday morning. This had required them to unload the trucks and find places to put the inventory until they could move it
with the current inventory.
Ted Angelo of the Grunau Co. in Milwaukee tells how the mechanical contractor used the 5S’s in its main yard last November. He said the yard, like those of most construction companies, was littered with stacks of material returned from jobs and saved for “just-in-case” situations. It also was crowded
with equipment and material being made ready to go out.
Another company looked at its tool repair process and was able to save eight to nine hours a week in the repair technician’s time by rearranging where
parts and tools were kept and the priority for repairing tools.
Organized gang boxes can save time looking for tools.
At the Grunau Co. a technician took a Rubbermaid cart and fixed it up so he could keep his tools at jobs that took two to three days. He could roll it in and
leave it overnight.
You can even do a 5S’s on your computer too. That can save a lot of time in
looking for electronic files.
Other ideas that construction companies report having done are:
- Consolidated the available tooling into one location (in the past, tools were located all over the shop);
- Sorted out all excess fittings by specification and spare valves into one segregated area;
- Sorted the bucket of hangers into the various sizes to avoid having to look through one bucket to get the right size;
- Set up each of the orbital welder bays with the same equipment and purge materials (all excess material was removed from the weld bays
- that had become congested as a result of the various sizes of material being fabricated);
- Reduced the number of as-built drawings being filed in binders and being warehoused in document control archives (all these drawings were scanned onto the firm’s server and the paper was scrapped);
- Striped the walkways and labeled and color-coded tools and parts; and
- Devised standardized tool kits for each workstation.
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