Concrete Slab Value Stream Mapping of Brazilian Residential Buildings - a Lean Construction Study Case

Abstract

Sustainable research inconstruction environments has being weakening more interest for theconstruction sector, due to visible wastes during the constructive processes.In this scenario, high costs and consumptions of unnecessary materials in the work activities are inserted also, which generate waste and customer dissatisfaction.The real knowledge of this situation can be present with the Lean Thinking concepts application. The scientific initiation research identifies, from the Value Stream mapping application, the structural elements processes and all the waste detected in their observation. This study case shows how to apply the lean principles, and presents your informally application in the Brazilian Company specifically. This study has an investigative character, and considers that the company applies just a part of the Lean principles. Therefore, the paper has as objective to present the application of VSM and the preliminary sustainable analyses too.