BIM and

Lean Construction

martin brown@fairsnapefairsnape@gmail.com

A Marriage Made in Heaven?

Alfred Bosom 1934

Latham

Building Down Barriers

Egan, Rethinking Construction 1998

Accelerating Excellence

Be Valuable

Never waste a Good Crisis

CE Survival Guide

Construction Strategy 2011

Social Value Act 2012

PAS 1192

Construction Vision 2025

collaborative

working journey

To produce the right product at the

right time in the right quantity for

the customer and to produce exactly

what you need and nothing more…

Lean Thinking

BIM Thinking

"everything we do goes into everything we do"

HONDA

“everything we do goes into … only 60% of what we do"

CONSTRUCTION

TypicalConstruction Project Footprint?

compelling reasons for adopting

‘Lean BIM’and pre-requisites for

success

BIM in conjunction with leanconstruction (ie Last Planner)can get Construction closerto Honda

“everything we do … goesinto everything we do”

BIM, like lean constructionforces us to focus on endgame first, understandingclient value and pulling thatvalue through design andconstruction.

BIM will drive lean andpredictable programmingand material sequencing.

BIM will streamline thesupply value stream formaterials, enabling just intime supply, adding valuereducing waste and cost.

BIM, like Last Plannercan reduce firefightingand stress on projectmanagement team.

BIM will greatly assist inimproving information flowand communications,between project partnersand supply chain

BIM and Lean constructionboth need committedleadership at organisationand at project level.

Core processes (eg design and construction) need to be (re)shaped around Lean Thinking and BIM requirements.

BIM is a people collaborationmindset requiring leanapproaches to ensure people(the last planner)involvement

Early contractor and supplychain involvement withstrong collaborative culturemust be in place.

“The construction aspects of projects is the easy bit - "a

doddle”

The harder, more complex bitis the collaborative working‘glue’ that surrounds thedesign, build and operationof the facility,

whether BIM is used or not”

Improving Construction is a monumental challenge

but now we have new tools we just need to use them!

BIM

Social Media

Restorative Sustainability

CircularEconomy

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Lean