AWP + Lean: Exploring Opportunities – Better Together
AWP practitioners can take advantage of proven Lean Construction techniques to further increase collaboration, reduce waste, and achieve better project outcomes. Likewise, Lean Construction practitioners can take advantage of the rigor of proven AWP techniques to introduce more structure to project delivery to increase planning and delivery capabilities. Furthermore, with ever-increasing use of technology, both groups could learn from each other to achieve an advantageous level of “industrialized” construction that considers all key People, Process, Technology, and Culture factors.
Working Group 22-01 discovered that AWP and Lean are better together (SR22-01a, p. 1). AWP practitioners can take advantage of proven Lean Construction techniques to further increase collaboration, reduce waste, and achieve better project outcomes. Likewise, Lean Construction practitioners can take advantage of the rigor of proven AWP techniques to introduce an effective structure to project delivery, thereby increasing planning and delivery capabilities.
With the industry’s ever-increasing use of technology, both groups could learn from each other to achieve an advantageous level of “industrialized” construction that considers all key People, Process, Technology, and Culture factors.
