Construction supply chain management handbook

520 Pages·2009·15.687 MB·English

by  William J. O’Brien, Carlos T. Formoso, Vrijhoef Ruben, Kerry London (eds.)

Construction
Supply Chain
Management
HANDBOOK
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Construction
Supply Chain
Management
HANDBOOK
Edited by
William J. O’Brien
Carlos T. Formoso
Ruben Vrijhoef
Kerry A. London
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Contents
Authors .................................................................................................ix
Contributors ........................................................................................xi
1
Introduction ..............................................................................1-1
William J. O’Brien, Carlos T. Formoso,
Kerry A. London, and Ruben Vrijhoef
SECTION I Production and Operations Analysis
2
C onstruction Supply Chain Modeling:
Issues and Perspectives .............................................................2-1
Marcelo Azambuja and William J. O’Brien
3
Production Planning and Control and the
Coordination of Project Supply Chains ....................................3-1
Carlos T. Formoso and Eduardo L. Isatto
4
Supply Chain Management in Product Development ..............4-1
Patricia Tzortzopoulos, Mike Kagioglou,
Rachel Cooper, and Erica Dyson
5
Collaboration and Communication in the
Design Chain: A Value-Based Approach ..................................5-1
Stephen Emmitt and Anders Kirk Christoffersen
6
Supply Chain Management for Lean Project Delivery .............6-1
Iris D. Tommelein, Glenn Ballard, and Philip Kaminsky
7
Application of Integrated Materials
Management Strategies .............................................................7-1
Roberto J. Arbulú
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Production System Instability and
Subcontracted Labor .................................................................8-1
Rafael Sacks
9
Understanding Supply Chain Dynamics
Via Simulation ...........................................................................9-1
Séverine Strohheckern (née Hong-Minh), Stephen M. Disney, and
Mohamed M. Naim
Commentary I .......................................................Commentary I-1
Glenn Ballard
SECTION II Organizational Perspectives
10
R eview of Organizational Approaches to the Construction
Supply Chain ...........................................................................10-1
Ruben Vrijhoef and Kerry A. London
11
C onstruction Supply Chain and the
Time Compression Paradigm ...................................................11-1
Denis R. Towill
12
Strategic Management of Construction Procurement ...........12-1
Andrew Cox
13
I ndustrial Organization Object-Oriented Project Model of
the Facade Supply Chain Cluster ............................................13-1
Kerry A. London
14
I nnovation Management in the
Construction Supply Chain ..................................................... 14-1
Bart A.G. Bossink and Ruben Vrijhoef
Commentary II .....................................................Commentary II-1
Will Hughes
SECTION III Information Technology
15
Overview of IT Applications in the
Construction Supply Chain ....................................................15-1
Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan
16
Field Technologies and Their Impact on
Management of Supply Chains ...............................................16-1
Semiha Kiziltas, Burcu Akinci, Esin Ergen,
Pingbo Tang, and Anu Pradhan
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Benefits of Using E-Marketplace in Construction
Companies: A Case Study ........................................................17-1
Luis F. Alarcón, Sergio Maturana, and Ignacio Schonherr
18
S tandards-Based Approaches to Interoperability in
Supply Chain Management: Overview and
Case Study Using the ISO 18629 PSL Standard ......................18-1
A.F. Cutting-Decelle, R.I. Young, B.P. Das,
C.J. Anumba, and J. Stal-Le Cardinal
19
Lean Enterprise Web-Based Information System for
Supply Chain Integration: Design and Prototyping ..............19-1
Nashwan Dawood
Commentary III ................................................. Commentary III-1
Richard H.F. Jackson
Author Index ....................................................................Author Index-1
Subject Index .................................................................. Subject Index-1
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Authors
Dr. Carlos Formoso has a PhD awarded by the University of Salford, UK. He is an
a ssociate professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the Federal University
of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where he has been teaching both undergraduate and
graduate courses, and conducting research in the area of construction management
since 1991. He is the head of the Construction Management Research Group at UFRGS,
leading a team of around 25 researchers. His research is concerned with the design and
management of production systems in the construction industry, including themes
such as production control, organizational learning, safety management, performance
m easurement, and product development. He has led several projects in partnership with
the industry in the last 15 years, most of them funded both by the Brazilian Government
and private companies. He has been a very active member of the International Group for
Lean Construction since 1996. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California,
Berkeley, USA, between October 1999 and September 2000.
Dr. Kerry London is an associate professor in the School of Architecture and Built
Environment in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment at the University
of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia and received her PhD from the University of
Melbourne. Dr. London joined Newcastle in 2001 and teaches undergraduate and
postgraduate students in both architecture and construction management programs.
She is assistant dean for Community Engagement. She is director of the Centre for
Interdisciplinary Built Environment Research [CIBER] and has published widely on
the construction supply chain concept. She was a visiting scholar at Lund University,
Sweden in 2000 and at the University of Reading, UK in 2006. Dr. London is also the
author of Construction Supply Chain Economics, and her construction supply research
areas include chain economics, capital infrastructure policy and management analysis,
and information fl ow and supply chain sustainability.
William J. O’Brien, PE, PhD, focuses his professional eff orts on improving collabora-
tion and coordination among fi rms in the design and construction industry. Dr. O’Brien
is an expert on construction supply chain management and electronic collaboration.
He conducts research, teaches, and consults on both systems design and implementa-
tion issues. Dr. O’Brien is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Civil,
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