Lean Construction
"Application of lean thinking to the designing and making (delivery) of capital projects (or projects in general)." (P2SL 2017)
"Application of lean thinking to the designing and making (delivery) of capital projects (or projects in general)." (P2SL 2017)
Structural Complexity
"Roughly, by a complex system I mean one made up of a large number of parts that interact in a non-simple way. In such systems, the whole is more than the sum of the parts […] in the […] sense that, given the properties of the parts and the laws of their interaction, it is not trivial to infer the properties of the whole." (Simon 1962)
"Roughly, by a complex system I mean one made up of a large number of parts that interact in a non-simple way. In such systems, the whole is more than the sum of the parts […] in the […] sense that, given the properties of the parts and the laws of their interaction, it is not trivial to infer the properties of the whole." (Simon 1962)
Design Structure Matrix
A matrix-based approach used to manage the design of complex engineering systems by modeling and analyzing the dependences between the elements that compose the system.
A matrix-based approach used to manage the design of complex engineering systems by modeling and analyzing the dependences between the elements that compose the system.
Space Use Visualization
The making of graphical representations to convey spatial information about the work to do on a construction site.
The making of graphical representations to convey spatial information about the work to do on a construction site.
Built-in-Quality
"Quality achieved by work structuring, including designing operations so as to meet customer requirements, removing constraints, preparing workers, mistakeproofing and performing successive inspection during each processing step, as well as at each handoff; i.e., designing and executing the processes of making things so those products conform to requirements. BiQ aims to avoid the reliance on end-of-line inspection and correction to achieve conformance to requirements." P2SL (2017).
"Quality achieved by work structuring, including designing operations so as to meet customer requirements, removing constraints, preparing workers, mistakeproofing and performing successive inspection during each processing step, as well as at each handoff; i.e., designing and executing the processes of making things so those products conform to requirements. BiQ aims to avoid the reliance on end-of-line inspection and correction to achieve conformance to requirements." P2SL (2017).
Facility Management
"Creating an environment that is conducive to the organization’s primary processes and activities, taking an integrated view of its services and support infrastructure, and using them to achieve end-user satisfaction and best value through support for, and enhancement of, the core business" (Atkin and Brooks 2015).
"Creating an environment that is conducive to the organization’s primary processes and activities, taking an integrated view of its services and support infrastructure, and using them to achieve end-user satisfaction and best value through support for, and enhancement of, the core business." (Atkin and Brooks 2015).
