Germany's
education minister has resigned after being stripped of her doctorate
because of plagiarism, in the second such case to hit Angela Merkel's
government in two years.
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Sunday, 10 February 2013
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Project Schedule and Quality Planning and Control in Construction Management: A Case Study of the New Facility Development at Saigon High-tech Park – Jabil Vietnam
Vietnam is in the process of development to
become an industrialized country. Development of large-scale industrial zones,
infrastructure system, plants, ports, express highway system, elevated roads,
and the like have contributed to the change of national economic face. Thus,
organizing and managing construction works in projects increasingly become critical
demand for recent years. Until now, satisfying criteria in project management
in accordance with the requirements on management of human resources, cost,
schedule, quality and scope of the project has large influence on the success
of enterprise.
Many planning models to control the project
have been applied to projects in the domain of construction in Vietnam and
nations in the world. Setting project management plans based on general process
started with analyzing task lists and integration process shall result in
emulation on total period, resource and related costs required for project
implementation and those shall support project managers and construction
engineers to have a general and detailed view on work items. From that, further
breakdown of work items per month, week, and day shall be established.
Implementing
processes and methods to manage the project mean that we must have preventive
plans against project problems. Preventing problems shall reduce the cost and
is the optimal plan for a successful project executing process. Mr. Pham Van Long made a case study
which objectives were to: (i) study project planning for construction project
schedule and quality; (ii) study project controlling strategy during the
execution phases; (iii) identify lessons learn in project planning and control
strategy; and (iv) develop a framework for project planning and control.
Conclusion:
Generally, this report gives a general vision on approaching, researching
and exploring sequence steps in establishing planning of construction schedule,
quality and human’s resources and resources of project before execution. These
are four main factors which not only affect directly to all projects cost but also
deciding project success.
Besides, this report also specifically presents controlling procedure
that was done such as procedure of quality controlling, procedure of schedule
controlling and procedures of checking, reporting project manpower and
resources data.
Based on practical application in this case study, compared with theory
research and from lesson, book as well as practical experience in execution, the
author analyzed the strength and weakness during the course of process, scope
of 02 main sections of the stated study model (quality and schedule), from that,
it is easy to recognize score issues effect to quality and project schedule.
Throughout this case study, we propose a solution to improve and develop
strategy in the coming time and give a recommendation framework in making
planning and control planning for enterprise so that it could be applied in
bigger project in the future.
His thesis abstract is copied and posted below
Since the 1990’s, construction companies and
business organizations throughout the world have begun to focus on the process
of creating quality products and satisfy requirements of the schedule progress
of the construction project. During the course of establishing planning
,schedule, progress and quality have been set up by construction enterprises
based on variation modulus, for example: applying MS project on monitoring
schedule, primavera, excel and other means to control, monitor quality, cause
and effect analysis, PDCA cycle, … The above-mentioned means help project
management units easily analyze, control and follow up progress and project
quality status, especially in construction field.
In large-scale companies, after many years
implementing project, they have accumulated many database, important
experiences to support them in the course of establishing schedule and quality
plan as well as human resource in order that
construction duration has executed quickly. Plans have been carried out based
on company’s established procedures. Implementing plans included schedule,
quality, human resource, cost and risk in construction project management.
This case study mainly focused on analyzing
process of establishing plan and controlling plan of procedure, project quality
in medium-size limited company in Vietnam. From applying practical construction
experience together with operation procedure that built up by company, schedule
and project quality were executed based on the following steps: Firstly: development
construction process included: definite work scope of project, analyze activity
list by WBS, standardize schedule. Secondly: creating schedule consisted: type
of schedule, implementing work list, schedule activity duration, work
activities relation, constrain and milestone. Thirdly: implementing and
controlling schedule.
During the time of making and controlling
quality, contractor executed based on 03 main steps that are establishing
project quality plan, execution quality assurance and quality control.
In conclusion, this report after being
finalized and completed shall be a significant proposal for improvement and
development of enterprises, especially construction department. If this
framework is applied successfully, it shall bring potential benefits for
company in the future.
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Owner Project Management Approach for Quality Performance of a School Project
Construction
is one of the most complex industries due to its heavy influence in lots of
elements and involvement with many parties such as the Owner, the Consultant,
and the Contractor etc.. This leads to the difficulty in managing the quality
of product in construction. Since clients are becoming more and more demanding
on the product quality, construction companies in this high competitive market
are now striving to improve the quality management aspect as much as
possible. There is no doubt that apart
from the traditional relationship, quality has become one of the key factors in
the survival and success of construction companies.
In
Viet Nam nowadays, there are many issues related to the quality of construction
project. Therefore, one being able build a quality management system for a
particular project will certainly gain a competitive advantage over the
competitors and meet the client’s expectation accordingly.
Recently, there
have been a lot of foreigner investors come to Vietnam and invested in the
development of international schools with high quality facilities to attract
potential parents and satisfy their expectation. Unfortunately in some cases,
the investors cannot get what quality they were guaranteed due to the following
problems:
1. Project delayed
2. Poor
coordination between Contractor and Sub-contractors
3. Miscommunication
among participants’ parties
4. Poor
management in terms of scheduling, planning, controlling, etc.
5. Low quality
in finishing work.
Mr.
Nguyen An Vi Nghia made a case study which objectives were to: (i) study owner
project management for managing quality performance starting from design,
construction and handover; (ii) discuss strengths and weaknesses; (iii) propose
recommendations; (iv) highlight lessons learnt; and (v) develop a Quality
Management System framework.
Conclusion
The following conclusions were drawn after accomplishing the objectives:
Objective
1: The purpose of this study is considered and analysed the way the owner
managed the quality performance of school project from the design stage to
handover construction stage. The author found out that the way the owner
managed the quality of project was not good enough, and there were many serious
problems remained.
Objective
2: Strengths and weaknesses
Some
major strengths of project were identified such as:
1.
Standardized information by owner such as colour, size of function rooms,
furniture arrangement, design brief, draft design, etc.
2.
Owner has the technical team, who able to support with the design and
construction work.
3.
The school is a simple building for construction.
4. The owner is an expert in school operation and they have run many
schools before.
However,
some major weaknesses and sources of the problems were also identified such as:
1.
The owner’s requirements and expectation were unclear from the beginning. Owner
was the source of problem
2.
The designer did not conduct a land survey before designing. Designer was the
source of problem
3.
Tender document was insufficient and inconsistent. Owner, designer and
appraiser was the source of problem
4.
Project members did not know clearly about the project’s objectives. Owner was
the source of problem
5.
Unrealistic schedule. Owner was the source of problem
6.
Unclear responsibilities and scope of works in the contract. Owner was the
source of problem
7.
Owner did not test and commission before signing off the handover letter. Owner
was the source of problem
8.
Owner did not prepare any form or check list for inspection. Owner was the
source of problem.
Objective
3: Recommendations
In
order to solve and to prevent the problems, the author proposed the following:
1.
The owner needs to provide clear requirements and expectation in the beginning
of each step
2.
The owner needs to request designers to go to the land site to study the land
condition and the design should be suitable with land condition.
3.
The owner should provide sufficient tender document for bidding and make sure
that the contractor’s proposals followed the template. By this way, it will be
easier for the owner to compare “Apple to Apple”.
4.
Before the start of the construction, the owner should organize the meeting to
brief all project members about project’s goal and their expectation for the
project
5.
The owner needs to have a good master schedule to ensure that the construction
work has sufficient time for proper construction. They need to recognize that
“if we have unrealistic time, we will not have good quality product.
6.
Besides providing clear requirements and expectation, the owner also needs to
write down clearly the responsibility and scope of works of other parties
related to project.
7.
The owner needs to conduct the testing and commissioning of the whole school
before signing off the handover letter. For efficiency of the testing and
commissioning step, the owner needs to appoint people who have fully knowledge
for testing and commissioning parts.
8.
To save the inspection time and more efficiency inspection, the owner needs to
prepare the check list and tools related to the work they want to inspect.
Objective iv: Highlight Lessons learned
Below are some of the works owner needs to prevent and some works they
need to maintain and improve:
1. Prevent changes.
2. Prevent contractor to construct the work without site engineer’s
supervision
3. Prevent construction’s finishing stage in rainy season.
4. Prevent or reduce the construction works during studying time.
5. Prevent unrealistic duration for construction fixed by owner.
6. Provide the design brief and draft design as requirements of project’s
concept design.
7. Provide the furniture manual is required for project’s concept design.
The owner hired a professional foreign consultant company for concept design
and hired a local consultant company for basic and detailed design. This was a
good idea since it saved the design cost. However, the owner needs to manage
their communication with each other and control them accordingly.
8. The owner in-house project team was appointed as the project
management team. However, the allocation of team members should be more
sufficient since the personnel are trained properly to manage the construction
project.
Objective v: Develop a quality management system framework
The owner can use that QMSF for their future projects in term quality
approaching. After studying the above factors, the author found that the
problems related to communication, unclear requirements and unreasonable
schedule were the most common problems occurred in school project. And that was
also the main caused for project delayed and not good quality as well.
To support the theories in this study, the Quality Management in
Construction Project eBook was the main source for theoretical and management
tool to manage the quality in construction.
Besides some studies as mentioned above, the report still has some
limited and did not study clearly the following parts:
1. Financial source is the most important for construction project and it
affects directly to the quality of product.
2. How to manage the contractor and sub-contractors in term of quality
3. How to manage the quality of work in construction site
4. The applicability of the proposed solution in reality.
5. Managing the contract in terms of consultant and construction
6. The situation of this study is from the owner’s view. Thus, the study
just studies some factors related to the owner’s view only.
Recommendations
In general, to prevent problems occurred; the owner should follow some
recommendation as blow:
1. More careful in feasibility study
2. Clear
requirements from initial step of project.
3. Clear
consultant’s responsibilities and write down clearly their scope of works into
the contract.
4. Get user
involves in the beginning of project to prevent the changes and not usage. It
is a waste of time and money.
5. The owner is
developing more and more school projects. Thus, they should standardize all
school facilities, brand and design requirements from the design step to
handover step so that the quality of school project will be getting better and
better.
6. Try to manage
the time schedule and plans to avoid the unreasonable time schedule. It is one
of the major factors that affect the quality of project.
7. Applying the
tools to measure the quality of product.
Design process
1. Applying
quality management system framework
2. Applying
QA/QC for design process
3. In the tender
requirement, the owner needs to specify that the contractors’ proposals must
follow exactly 100% of the owner’s BOQ (including format, content and
specification). In case the contractor has some comments or further proposals,
they should put it in an appendix of proposal. The BOQ’s specification needs to
specify the materials, brands and sources of equipments. To study the
contractors’ proposals, the owner needs to have professional people who have
fully knowledge to check and compare the contractors’ proposals and make sure
the comparison is “Apple to Apple”.
Construction process
1. Applying Construction Quality Assessment System (CONQUAS) for quality
assessment.
2. Using QA/QC for construction process
3. Using some tool to measure quality as CONQUAS
4. Preparing and using check list for construction inspection.
5. Nowadays, almost people prefer has good quality for their project and
they have recognized that high quality and more investment will go together.
Thus, CONQUAS method will be used more in the future, because it is very useful
for quality assessment. Regarding to some of recommendation for construction
process, I would like to recommend that owner should use Quality Management
System Framework as proposed in Chapter 3 (please refer 3.8 of Chapter 3) for
whole project as standardize and consistent for their school system overall of
the world. Besides, Owner applies CONQUAS method for quality assessment
Abstract
In construction project, the scenario of
each project is not the same. Only if small thing goes wrong in construction
phase, nonconforming work is very difficult for us to repair or take remedial
action and in some cases it is impossible to get fixed. Furthermore, quality
management is affected by many elements such as manpower, technique, unforeseen
weather etc. Therefore, construction phase is very difficult to determine the
expected quality.
Besides, scope of the work, cost and
time of delivery are also important characteristics of quality. Quality in
construction project is not only the quality of product, technique and
equipment used in construction but the total management approach from the
beginning of project to completion stage. The quality of construction depends
mainly upon the control and monitor of construction, which are the primary
responsibilities of the contractor.
This report has been analysed based on a
real school project in Viet Nam and discussed clearly about project performance
from the beginning step to the very end. And then, it also proposes solutions
on how to get better performance for any cases especially school project.
Regarding to the practice process, the report has
also built the quality management system framework to serve as a management
model for developing school projects in Viet Nam.
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Quality Management System for Consultant Supervision of a Building Construction Project
The aim
of the quality management system is to create high quality products, meet the customers’
need, fit for use or purpose and conform to requirements. Quality in
construction projects is not only the quality of product and equipment used in the
construction of a facility but the total management approach to complete the
facility. The quality of construction depends mainly upon the control of
construction. The construction cost and time of delivery are also important
characteristics of quality.
In
Vietnam, the quality management system, ISO 9000 and Total Quality Management,
is also applied in construction field. ISO 9000 and Total Quality Management
are considered as the most effective ways of quality managing. However, in
recent years, when Vietnam adapted the international integration policy, both public
and private sectors have also invested in Vietnam. Due to competition, many
contractors bid at a very low cost just to get the project, thus, suffering the
quality. Many completed projects have many defects especially high-rise
buildings. Therefore, quality control system of the consultant is strongly
necessary for both owner and contractor to assure quality and prevent any
unexpected hazards.
Mr. Nguyen Tien Dung made a case study which main
objectives were to: (i) know the quality management system of consultant
supervision to manage construction works of a building project; and (ii) analyze
the strength, weakness and problem.
Quality management system of consultant supervision is
to manage implementation of quality management system in construction works by
contractor as well as to ensure the quality of construction works complying
with specification, and standard requirements. Both consultant and contractor control
the quality of construction project to meet and satisfy client requirements as
well as all contractual requirements at optimum cost and time.
This case study was performed aimed to control the
construction measures which are related with quality control. This quality control
is conducted based on the Vietnam standard and regulation. These provide
contributions to comply importance standards and regulations which directly
affect quality control in construction.
The quality management system in my company was
based on the ISO 9001:1994 requirement system. The major issues of quality
control are managing of incoming materials, monitoring and controlling of
production process, testing and commissioning of the finished product. The
system includes:
1. An organization structure, responsibility
and authority in quality management system
2. Scope of supervision consultant
process
3. Project procedure
implementations
- Document system and data control
- Process control
- Inspection, testing, measuring
and test equipment
- Inspection and test status
- Control of Non-conforming product
and corrective and prevent action
- Control of quality records
- Internal quality audits
- Training
Furthermore, the case study also set
up the communication process of managing quality and communication channel
between the owner, supervising consultant, designing consultant and contractor
to solve problems at the site. The
purpose is to solve quality issues concerning construction projects. Besides,
documentations and data records for quality activities have also been mentioned.
A model for managing quality has been defined and shown to apply to any
construction project. The model involves multi-levels quality management
participation, including contractors, engineers, and managers. It describes the
quality management tasks and the roles supposing in a system relating
construction quality control, quality assurance, and the interface between
them. The report also shows the understanding of how quality management is implementation
and engages participants at several management levels.
The quality management system
functions as practiced in building construction. A system method to quality
management, which emphasizes the main quality activities, has been reported. The
case study also shows quality issues and QMS procedure, implementation problems
regarded to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, problems and proposal possible
recommendation of solutions to achieve quality and timely progress. However,
due to limited time, the report only discusses about consultant supervision in
controlling quality management system of a contractor in construction phase.
There is remaining of time control, cost control which are very important of
project in construction phase.
Strength
1. For
quality policy and QMS
- The QMS
implemented based on ISO9001 quality approval system with clear organization
structure of each member. Project quality plan provides details on company
policies and specific requirements of the project. System procedures state how
the company policies are to be implemented, what is to be done and who has to
do it. Obtaining and maintaining
ISO9001 accreditation is a confirmation of top management’s commitment to the
customer that a first class service shall be provided jointly by the project.
- The primary goals are to exceed the standards and requirements
stipulated by our Clients in terms of quality, time and cost efficiency. The
project is treated as if our own, and take great satisfaction and pride in the
achievement of these goals.
2. For
document, data control and project communication
- Project document are controlled in accordance with
company system procedures to ensure the registration, distribution, security,
accuracy.
- All incoming and outgoing documents are reviewed
for accuracy and adequacy prior to issue and distribution to all relevant
parties.
- Project manager shall always ensure that obsolete
documents are not used for construction purpose. Invalid and/or obsolete
documents shall be removed from the relevant sets of documents unless they are
retained for legal and/ or knowledge preservation purposes in which case they
shall be clearly identified as a Superseded document.
- Project communication: a clearly system used for
this project for internal and external relevant parties. All project
information shall be put in daily file and sent circular to all project staffs
to read to update and get information to perform project effectively.
3. For
construction control and quality control
- Construction management control will be achieved
through programming activities. Based on the “For Construction” program
including mile stone date, the supervision consultant will check and control
detailed programs for each section of works called short term programs.
- Construction control will be achieved through the
use of inspection and test plans that detail or reference the required
standards to be achieved under contract. Inspection and testing will be carried
out on this project to verify that the specified requirements for the product
are met
- An non-conformance report will be used to record
non-conformities. All non-conformances will be identified and monitored by
project quality assurance manager.
Recommendation for further study
1. In order to achieve the efficient of the Quality
management System, the responsibility, fulfill task of each member should be clearly
identified.
2. Top Management commitment includes:
- Establishing
the quality policy to comply with requirement and continuous improvement.
- Establishing quality objective to meet product
requirements
- Reviewing the quality management systems to
maintain progress
- Ensuring necessary resource
- Measuring customer satisfaction at all levels
3. Continuous improvements the effectiveness of
quality management system through:
- Quality policy
- Objectives
- Audit results
- Data analysis
- Corrective and preventive action
- Management review
4. Focus on the customer and the employee
5. Everybody’s participation into quality management
implementation
His thesis abstract is copied and pasted below.
The
report applies Quality Management System (QMS) ISO 9000 for project management
and consultant supervision of a building construction project. It express the
key issues in Quality Management System for supervision consultants and
contractors. The report describes the quality management system with clear
responsibilities of personnel and the role in a plan relating to quality
control, quality assurance and quality improvement in construction project.
Therefore, the role of supervision consultant is very important to ensure the
project to achieve and meet with client requirements.
The
report methodology is highlighted as the main philosophy which refers to the
theories, local standards system and International Standard Organization ISO
9000. Moreover, the report also collects different source of data including company
quality management system, project documents, project agencies, newspapers,
construction law and standards in Vietnam. As a result, the study has shown the
factors that most effect to project quality plan and the key issues to control
project quality and quality management system framework for consultant
supervision of a building in construction phase.
In
this study, a quality management system of supervision consultant is
established. This helps supervision consultant to control quality management
system, procedure and implementation to ensure high quality product to meet customer’s
requirements, expectations and definition of quality. Furthermore, the study
also analysis the strength points, weakness points, quality problems for
continuous improvement process to achieve higher demand of customer.
Project Owner’s Quality Management System: A Case Study of Phu Tho Building Resettlement Project
Construction industry is one of the key industries which have
been proved through the total capital each year. To manage a project is very
complicated because of many elements and parties involves in every phase of the
project. Therefore, every project must develop the effective strategy to
achieve the success. Thus, quality is the critical problem that should be paid
more attention to ensure that the project could be run smoothly and
effectively.
If the poor quality management
exists the project will face with many difficulties which may lead to the
project failures. On the other hands, many problems will occur through
conflicts between parties, a lot of waste, rework, claims etc.
Implement the effective Quality
management system (QMS) is the critical success factor and require more efforts
not only from the project owner but also from the consultants, contractors,
suppliers and clients as well.
Mr. Nguyen Huu Ky made a case
study on a resettlement project which 2 main objectives were to: (i) study the Quality
Management System (QMS) model in a high-rise construction project from the
planning phase to construction phase under the owner’s perspective; and (ii) analyze
strengths and weakness and provide recommendation for improvement
Besides a financial support, scheduling and quality plan for
the project at the design stage, owners play a key role to deliver a project
that meets quality requirements. To achieve this, owners need a system of
quality control procedures for their content, manuals and instructions.
Firstly, the QMS of ownership is set up and committed by top
manager and clear responsibilities of the members. Secondly, construction, procurement
has been developed for selection of contractors and suppliers. Thirdly, the
team ensures that the implementation process has to be consistent with the
programs and plans submitted by the contractor and approved by the project
management team. Finally, the QMS should be reviewed and improved the regular
system. In the report, the author analyzed the QMS to find out the strengths
and weaknesses under the owner’s perspective.
Moreover, from this case study, the author discussed the
efforts of existing systems to improve project quality and effectiveness of the
improved method. To reduce the problems of quality, project management team
decided to improve the effectiveness of the program QA/QC increases the
efficiency of monitoring, improving working conditions for workers and record
all unsuitable products. Because of number of reasons, the operation is not
enough to improve efficiency.
The result is the frequency of quality problems persist. The
author proposed framework that helps the owner to resolve the issues and
project management during construction. Framework of quality management system
is proposed not only applied in the case, but also other projects.
However, because of time limitations, the report discusses
the quality management system of the owners in the construction phase. There is
the quality management system design and bidding phase is very important to the
quality of projects.
- Develop the quality commitment
slogan with the top managers.
- Develop the full task sheet and
attached responsibility. Provide task sheet for all employees.
- The internal audits procedures
should be reviewed by the project team to verify.
- Provide the incentive system to
motivate employees.
- Quality records must be filed and
stored carefully. Explain the meaning of NCR to the contractors and
supervisors.
- And encourage them to issue NCR.
Training and show examples for site engineers.
- Provide training to engineers and
workers.
Establish motivation programs/ fine
and award programs.
- Consider change to apply ISO in the
next project. Train the team to understand and apply the ISO.
- Require the sub-contractors follow
and commit with the QMS of the project. Set up penalties when necessary and
provide the incentive when they obey the QMS.
- Set up the QA/QC project team focus
on analyze the data and evaluate the current situation. This team responsible
for report to PM and PD. This team involves every party in the projects.
- Consider develop full manual. Refer
to other manual and instruction from other projects or companies which could be
applicable.
- Improve coordination with designer
in term of design and inspection. Conduct peer review.
- Established change order procedure.
Monitor closely the change orders and ensure the Supervisor/ - Contractors are
acknowledge.
- Develop the procedure of the
information flow chart, responsibility flow chart to control the information.
His thesis abstract is copied
and pasted below.
Abstract
The report refers to the issue of quality management in
construction projects in Vietnam from the Perspective of the unit owner. The
quality of the work plays an important role in the success of the project and
should be considered a proper way especially in today's modern environment.
In this report the problem of the quality management system
will be discussed and analyzed thoroughly. Through a typical project report
will analyze and synthesize the strong points and also limited points in the current
quality management system. The key factors affecting the implementation of the
quality management system will be given in the report. From the evaluation of
which we can draw lessons learned to improve the organization's management
system to help improve the efficiency of the project.
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Application of Lean Production Approach in Integrated Project Scheduling Management
Construction project
management focuses on the completion on time, ensuring committed quality, and within
budget plan. Delay is one of the major problems in construction projects which
is defined as the excess time in completing the project as specified in the
contract, or project delivery commitments of the parties. Consequences of delay
are different for different parties. As for the owner side, delay means loss of
revenue due to late operation of the properties and unavailability of the facilities.
To the contractor, delay causes increasing overhead and preliminaries costs,
higher material costs by inflation, and due to labor cost increases. Delays can
also lead serious effects such as lawsuits between the owners and contractors
or contract termination. The effects of delay is illustrated below.
There are lots of researches
which have been conducted in different countries with the result that delay
problem is a common phenomenon in the construction project; it is more severe
in developing countries and Vietnam is not an exception. According to many
studies, there are many causes of delay, in which, ineffective planning and
scheduling of project by contractor is a major factor because they used so many
inadequate assumptions and estimations. Thus, application
a right process in project scheduling is essential requirement to improve the delay
problem.
Mr. Le Viet Hoa made a research aimed to introduce Lean
Production theory and its application in construction projects in Vietnam. It is
believed to bring an innovation in the scheduling process. The objectives of his
were to: (i) study the theory of Lean Production;
(ii) study the application of Lean Production in integrated project scheduling
management; and (iii) discuss the benefits and obstacles in applying Lean
Production theory in construction project scheduling.
Conclusion
The study introduced
current practice in project scheduling management and how to apply the Last
Planner System. As the result, the application this theory has so many benefits
and obstacles to the construction project.
To remove those
obstacles, training will be a key factor. All related workers and staff should
undergo formal training on how to use this tool in a convenient and efficient
way. Although training can lead to increase workload in the early stages of
implementation, however, in the long term, it will serve to improve the
efficiency of the construction companies and constitute an investment cost from
the original training.
Furthermore, there
are some issues that would be considered to follow for increasing the success
rate of implementation:
-
If the LPS are not carried out in a systematic
manner, it will fail. However, the project documents must be fully completed
and discussed weekly;
-
The Project Manager must control the LPS, the
organizations still needed approval against unsatisfactory performance.
-
The LPS will highlight which of teams don’t perform
well. If the data will not be used for
managing performance, the LPS will be discredited and lost benefits; and
-
The LPS will bring out the poor Project
Managers. This can trigger training and reassignment.
The thesis abstract is copied and pasted below.
Abstract
Construction
industry in the world in general and in Vietnam in particular is one of the
sectors with the greatest contribution to the development of the national
economy over the past decades and it also played an important role in creating
jobs for employers in the country. However, the industry was faced with poor
performance, low productivity, bad quality, delays and cost overruns. With the desire to reduce waste,
overproduction and create value added for customers. Lean construction has
developed in recent times for the construction sector by increasing the
efficiency of the construction process by improving the production process and
control the workflow in the construction activities.
Lean
construction has been studied and applied successfully in several companies of
the western countries and it is a topic that many scholars have been investing
effort to further research and applied more effectively. This study tends to
introduce the application of Lean construction contractors and construction
managers in Vietnam to be able to use and combine other tools to improve
project performance.
Manufacturing and
Construction have significant characteristics different. In manufacturing,
regularly finished products after ex-factory will be transported to the consumers
through the distribution channels are wholesalers to the retailers by logistics
network systems. In contrast, construction products, great value and cannot be
transported. In addition,
the construction industry is composed of three important features that is
completely different to other industries which are: Onsite production, one-of-a-kind projects, and complexity. Therefore, although the Lean
Production was implemented very successfully after the Second World War but the
Lean Construction theory is still being developed.
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