Concurrent Engineering in the Construction Industry

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The construction industry has been suffering from low productivity and poor performance In an attempt to improve its performance, industry practitioners and researchers have looked at the manufacturing industry as a point of reference and a source of innovation Conse quently, the industry has acquired and adapted the Concurrent Engineering (CE) approach to manufacturing, to construction Concurrent Con struction (CC) The motivation for importing a CE approach to construction is presented in this paper To assist in overcoming the industry's poor productivity and performance, this paper suggests that construction processes need to be carried out concurrently Furthermore, people in volved in the project need to be integrated into a unified development process by becoming a multi-disciplinary team Thus, all downstream aspects of the design and construction process and non-value adding activities (waste) can be considered throughout the design stage of the project

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