Institut for produktion Civilingeniøruddannelsen i Byggeledelse

SUMMARY
ABSTRACT
This is a summary of a final thesis prepared at Aalborg University, Denmark in
construction management. The final thesis is prepared in the period from September
2001 till June 2002 in cooperation with the Danish Technological Institute
(TI).
The game “Plan Byg” developed for the construction industry is introduced as
well as the background for the development of the game. In the game two ways of
managing a building project are compared. One team of players is simulating a
construction project managed in a “traditional” way and another team is simulating
a construction project managed by the use of lean principles. The summary
first presents seven problems identified for the Danish construction industry before
introducing the goal of the final thesis. In the light of the goal gaming is identified
as a problem solving technique. Then the development of the prototype for
the game “Plan Byg” and the artifacts needed to play the game are introduced.
Afterwards follows an introduction to the rules of the game before the scene of the
game is presented. At the end of the chapter a further development of the prototype
is outlined as well as the experiences from the first two tests of the prototype.
INTRODUCTION
The final thesis has been structured in a case study measuring the time utilization
for the assembly of concrete elements and three papers [Kristensen & Nielsen,
2001 (a) to (c)] and [Kristensen & Nielsen, 2002 (d)]. Finally this led to the development
of a game for the construction industry outlined in [Kristensen & Nielsen,
2002].
The purpose of [Kristensen & Nielsen,
2001 (a)] was to estimate the utilization
of the working time during assemblywork
of concrete elements by the use of
random registrations and to estimate the
waste (time that the the members of the
crew spends away from the workstation,
walking emptyhanded and waiting for
materiels, people, etc.) that occurs during
the assembly. The result of the time
study is shown in Figure 1.
In [Kristensen & Nielsen, 2001 (b)] two
comparisons are made to illustrate the
development in the Danish construction
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Production
29%
Preparation
32%
Waste
39%
Figure 1: Time utilization for mounting
precast concrete elements.