Lead time in construction process

Abstract

This research studies on an improvement of the construction process in term of time consideration. The construction industry was considered fragmented because policy and guideline implementation and practice in the construction are inconsistent among the players involved. Commonly, town planners, architects and designers work independently with little input and communicate with each other. The construction industry is facing increased demands from society. Project are becoming more complex and customer are demanded for high quality building, lower cost and shorter lead-time of completion. Customers are requesting value of the project. Lead time minimization is importance in order to increase the quality of project. IBS is of the technology that is introduced by the government to minimize the lead time in construction process in term of time saving. Eventhough for almost 45 years, IBS were still at introduction step in Malaysian Construction Industry. The implementation of the technology are still far from achieving the 100 points of IBS Score. The main barriers that impede the implementation of IBS are the resistance of the parties involved in construction industry. This research is an effort to contribute academically for better construction management to increase the lead time of the construction process and the quality of the product. The objective of the research is to identify which activity that affecting the most of lead time in construction process and to identify and mitigate the possible cause of the delay that lead to similar completion time. Methods that are used to achieve this objective is by collection, gathering and analyze the data using the Autodesk Naviswork Manage. From the study it was conducted that the lead time can be reduced by studying the ground level of process to mitigate appropriately.