Articles in refereed journals and book chapters

Lean Construction articles in refereed journals, book chapters, monographs

Please, send additions to Lauri Koskela, lauri.koskela@vtt.fi

Arbulu, R.J., Tommelein, I.D., Walsh, K.D., and Hershauer, J.C. (2003). "Value Stream Analysis of a Re-engineered Construction Supply Chain." J. Building Research and Information - Special Issue on Re-engineering Construction, Spon Press, 31(2), 161–171.

Ballard, Glenn (2000). The Last Planner System of Production Control. PhD thesis, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., June, 2000.

Ballard, Glenn (2002). “Managing work flow on design projects: a case study.” Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 9/3, June 2002, pp 284-291.

Ballard, Glenn and Gregory A. Howell (publication pending). “Lean Project Management.” Journal of Building Research & Information, (scheduled for publication in March, 2003).

Ballard, Glenn and Gregory Howell (1998). “Shielding Production: Essential Step in Production Control.” Journal of Construction Management & Engineering, ASCE, New York, NY, 124 (1) 11-17.

Ballard, Glenn, Iris Tommelein, Lauri Koskela, and Gregory Howell (2002). “Lean Construction Tools and Techniques.” Chapter 15 in Best & de Valence (editors), Building in Value: Project Delivery. Arnold, London (copublished in the United States by John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY.)

Ballard, Glenn, Nigel Harper, and Todd Zabelle (2003). “Learning to See Work Flow: Application of Lean Production Concepts to Precast Concrete Fabrication.” Journal of Engineering, Construction, and Architectural Management, Jan/Feb 2003, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, U.K.

Choo, H.J., Hammond, J., Tommelein, I.D., and Ballard, G., and Austin, S. (200X). "DePlan: Tool for Integrated Design Management." Automation in Construction, submitted in December 2000, in press.

Choo, Hyun Jeong, Iris D. Tommelein, Glenn Ballard, and Todd Zabelle (1999). “WorkPlan: Constraint-Based Database for Work Package Scheduling.” J. of Constr. Eng. and Mgmt., ASCE, 125 (3) 151-160.

Formoso, C. T. & Santos, A. An exploratory study of process transparency in construction sites. Journal of Construction Research, World Scientific Publishing Company, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2002), pp. 35/54.

Gil, N., Tommelein, I. D., Kirkendall, R.L., and Ballard, G. (2001). "Leveraging Specialty-Contractor Knowledge in Design-Build Organizations." Engineering, Construction, and Architectural Management (ECAM), October/December, 8 (5/6) 355-367.

Green, S. D. (1999) The missing arguments of lean construction, Construction Management and Economics, 17(2), pp 133-137. ISSN 0144-6193.

Green, S. D. (1999) The technocratic totalitarianism of construction process improvement: a critical perspective, Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 5(4), pp 376-386. ISSN 0969 9988.

Green, S. D. (2002) The human resource management implications of lean construction: critical perspectives and conceptual chasms, Journal of Construction Research, 3(1), pp147-166. ISBN 1604-9451

Howell, Gregory, Alexander Laufer and Glenn Ballard (1993b). "Uncertainty and Project Objectives" in Project Appraisal, 8, pp. 37-43. Guildford, England: March, 1993.

Howell, Gregory, Alexander Laufer, and Glenn Ballard (1993a). “Interaction Between Subcycles: One Key To Improved Methods.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 119 (4).

Kartam, Saied, C. William Ibbs, and Glenn Ballard (1995). “Reengineering Construction Planning.” Project Management Journal, Volume XXVI, Number 2, pp. 27-37.

Kartam, Saied, Glenn Ballard, and C. William Ibbs (1997). “Introducing a New Concept and Approach to Modeling Construction.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, New York, NY, 123 (1), 89-97.

Kim, Yong-Woo and Glenn Ballard (2001b). “Earned Value Method and Customer Earned Value.” Journal of Construction Research, Vol 3, No 1, March, 2002, 11 pp.

Koskela, Lauri. 2000. An exploration towards a production theory and its application to construction. Espoo, VTT Building Technology, 2000. 296 p. VTT Publications; 408 ISBN 951-38-5565-1; 951-38-5566-X. WWW: http://www.inf.vtt.fi/pdf/publications/2000/P408.pdf

Koskela, Lauri. 2002. How can construction research be organized? An overseas comment on the Fairclough Review. Building Research & Information., vol. 30 (2002) 5, pp. 305 - 311.

Koskela, Lauri. 2003. Is structural change the primary solution to the problems of construction? Building Research & Information. Special Issue on Re-engineering Construction, Spon Press, 31(2)

Koskela, Lauri; Howell, Greg; Ballard, Glenn; Tommelein, Iris. 2002. The foundations of lean construction. Design and Construction: Building in Value. Best, Rick & de Valence, Gerard. (eds.). Butterworth-Heinemann (2002), pp. 211 - 226. (copublished in the United States by John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY.)

Koskela, Lauri; Huovila, Pekka. 2000. On foundations of concurrent engineering. International Journal of Computer Integrated Design and Construction., vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 2 - 8.

Koskela, Lauri; Huovila, Pekka; Leinonen, Jarkko. 2002. Design management in building construction: from theory to practice. Journal of Construction Research., Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1 - 16. WWW: http://www.worldscinet.com/jcr/03/0301/S1609945102000035.html

Koskela, Lauri; Kazi, Abdul Samad. 2003. Information technology in construction: How to realise the benefits? Socio-Technical and Human Cognition Elements of Information Systems. Clarke, Steve, Coakes, Elayne, Hunter, M. Gordon & Wenn, Andrew (eds.). Information Science Publishing, pp. 60 - 75.

Koskela, Lauri; Vrijhoef, Ruben. 2001. Is the current theory of construction a hindrance to innovation? Building Research and Information., vol. 29 (2001) 3, pp. 197 - 207.

Miles, Robert S. and Glenn Ballard (2002). “Problems in the Interface Between Mechanical Design and Construction: a Research Proposal.” Journal of Construction Research, Vol 3, No 1, March, 2002, 13 pp.

Santos, A. & Formoso, C. T. & TOOKEY, J. E. Expanding the meaning of standardisation within construction processes. The TQM Magazine. Emerald. Volume 14, Number 1, 2002.

Santos, A.; TOOKEY, J. & MOSER, L. Applying the Concept of Mobile Cell Manufacturing on the Drywall Process. ICFAI Journal of Operations Management, 2003.

Santos, Aguinaldo dos, POWELL, James Andrew, FORMOSO, Carlos Torres. Setting Stretch Targets for Driving Continuous Improvement in Construction. Work Study, MCB Press, v.49, n.2, 2000.

Santos, Aguinaldo dos, POWELL, James, HINKS, John. Using Pattern-Matching for the International Benchmarking of production Practices. Benchmarking An International Journal, MCB University Press, 2001.

Santos, Aguinaldo dos, POWELL, James, SARSHAR, Marjan. Evolution of Management Theory: the Case of Production Management in Construction. Management Decision, MCB University Press, 2002.

Santos, Aguinaldo dos, POWELL, James. Assessing the Level of Teamwork in Brazilian and English Construction Practices. The Leadership Organization Development Journal, Vol 22, Issue 4, MCB University Press, 2001.

Santos, Aguinaldo dos, POWELL, James. Investigation into the effectiveness of push and pull learning strategies in the construction environment. Journal Workplace Learning, MCB University Press, v.13, n.2, 2001.

Tommelein, I.D, Riley, D., and Howell, G.A. (1999). "Parade Game: Impact of Work Flow Variability on Trade Performance." ASCE, J. of Constr. Engrg. and Mgmt., 125 (5) 304-310, Sept/Oct Issue.

Tommelein, I.D. (1999). "Lean Construction Experiments using Discrete-event Simulation: Techniques and Tools for Process Re-engineering?" International Journal of Computer-Integrated Design and Construction, CIDAC, Special issue on Construction Process Re-engineering, 1 (2) 53-63, September.

Tommelein, I.D. (1998). "Pull-driven Scheduling for Pipe-Spool Installation: Simulation of Lean Construction Technique." ASCE, J. of Constr. Engrg. and Mgmt., 124 (4) 279-288.

Tsao, C.C.Y., Tommelein, I.D., Swanlund, E., and Howell, G.A. (200X). "Work Structuring to Achieve Integrated Product-Process Design." Submitted to ASCE, J. of Constr. Engrg. and Mgmt., in review since 25 Nov 2002. (Previous title was "Five WHYs: First Step Torwards Work Structuring" orig. submitted February 2001).

Vrijhoef, Ruben; Koskela, Lauri. 2000. The four roles of supply chain management in construction. European Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management., vol. 6, no. 3 - 4, p. 169

Walsh, K.D., Hershauer, J.C., Tommelein, I.D., and Walsh, T.A. (200X). "Strategic Positioning of Inventory to Match Demand in a Construction Supply Chain." Submitted to ASCE, J. of Constr.Engrg and Mgmt., inDecember 2002.

Whelton, Michael and Glenn Ballard (2002a). “Descriptive Design Study: A Building-Facility Renewal Planning Study.” Journal of Construction Research, Vol 3, No 1, March, 2002, 22 pp.

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