Lean and BIM Synergy in Practice – A General Overview
Recent research on BIM and Lean Construction (LC) shows that there is a significant synergy between the two. The many positive interactions includes: reduction in process variation and cycle-times, increased visualisation of products and processes, automation of some non-value adding activities, increased collaborative working, advanced prefabrication options, and better value capturing and rapid generation of alternatives through the use of BIM come to fore1. All those points also constitute some of the important mantras of LC. It should also be noted that the BIM-Lean synergy is not limited to the design phase and extends over the construction life-cycle with the rapid advent of multidimensional BIM capabilities (nD BIM).