Implementation and application of lean construction and Building Information Modeling within an electrical contracting enterprise

提高项目交付过程及其结果的可预测性对于建筑行业的专业行业至关重要。这些下游利益相关者承担了交付建筑项目的大部分风险，即使他们与设计和规划阶段做出的决策相去甚远。此外，建筑项目的浪费和效率低下是出了名的。在过去的几十年里，出现了新的项目交付方法，如建筑信息建模（BIM）和精益施工，以解决这些问题及其后果。虽然这些方法在美国越来越受欢迎，但在加拿大建筑业的采用和实施却滞后。虽然有越来越多的经验证据表明，这些方法提供了显着的好处，有一个明确的需要，以更好地了解从加拿大的角度来看，以及从专业承包商的角度来看的好处和挑战。本研究的目的是探索BIM和精益施工原则在不列颠哥伦比亚省的大型电气承包商的应用，以提高其项目团队的绩效，并提高他们的成果。更具体地说，它的目的是调查如何专业承包商可以提高其性能，同时减轻其风险，通过应用这些原则，根据行业的当前限制。该研究项目还旨在揭示实施这些方法的好处和障碍，并希望为支持实施这些方法的具体能力的发展提供信息。该研究项目的预期贡献是在加拿大背景下从电气承包商的角度在项目和组织层面上对BIM和精益施工实施的案例研究进行记录和传播。这将有助于其他组织和项目团队 寻求实施BIM和精益，并为加拿大建筑业提供越来越多的知识和专业知识。

Improving the predictability of project delivery processes and their outcomes is paramount for specialty trades operating in the construction industry. These downstream stakeholders take on much of the risk of delivering building projects even if they are far removed from the decision made during the design and planning stages. Moreover, construction projects are notoriously wasteful and inefficient. New approached to project delivery, such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Lean construction have emerged over the past decades to address these issues and their consequences. While these approaches are becoming increasingly popular in the US, their adoption and implementation is lagging in the Canadian construction industry. While there is increasing empirical evidence of the significant benefits offered by these approaches, there is a clear need to better understand the benefits and challenges from the Canadian perspective as well as from the specialty contractor perspective. The aim of this research is to explore applications of BIM and lean construction principles within a large electrical contractor in British Columbia to improve the performance of its project teams and enhance their outcomes. More specifically, it aims to investigate how a specialty contractor can improve its performance while mitigating its risk through the application of these principles in light of the industry's current limitations. The research project also aims to uncover the benefits and the barriers to the implementation of these approaches and looks to inform the development of specific capabilities to support their implementation. The expected contributions of this research project are the documentation and diffusion of a case study of BIM and Lean construction implementation at the project and organizational level from an electrical contractor's perspective in the Canadian context. This will help other organizations and project teams seeking to implement BIM and lean and contribute to a growing body of knowledge and expertise on these approaches for the Canadian construction industry.