Lean Construction Ireland Annual Book of Cases 2021 53 l f s s 2 Company Overview WALLS CONSTRUCTION walls.ie Overview & Background to the Lean Initiative Lean Initiative Undertaken – Lean Thinking, Tools, Techniques Walls Construction Limited (WCL) provides Building Contracting, Design & Build, Construction Management and Management Contracting services across a wide range of industry sectors including residential, commercial office,data centres,pharmaceutical and life sciences, public sector and hotels and leisure.The business was established by PJWalls in 1950 and is today recognised as one of Ireland’s leading construction companies,with a reputation for quality and building excellence and customer service. In 2015, the executive team, supported by private investors including members of theWalls family, acquired the company and this investor blend has enabled us to continue to expand the business. Since our foundation over 70 years ago, the company has grown significantly, and it employs a total of almost 400 staff. Sarah Ryan Author Jamie Goddard Author Nothing better exemplifies the appetite for Lean Initiatives within Irish construction than the use of BIM for the design, coordination, and delivery of projects.We must embrace BIM (Building Information Modelling) at all levels to achieve efficiency and streamline all aspects of our business.As a lead contractor we acknowledge that this is the future of construction, and we must grow alongside it. As part of our ongoing company strategy tomaximise BIM adoption, we believed one of the hurdles facing us was the perception that many at site level may feel apprehensive of engaging with the required digital technologies.To verify this,we conducted a skills gap analysis which confirmed our perception (see Figure 1). To address this, we decided to identify and trial an introductory app which could serve as a stepping stone to other more complex BIM programmes.The app should allow people on site to interact with BIM in a way that they feel comfortable with and grow their confidence in their abilities. The tool chosen to both improve our BIM capabilities and expand the knowledge and confidence of our employees was Dalux BIMViewer. Dalux was identified as the best tool to increase digital engagement at operational levels, other options were also considered but were deemed to be too advanced and/or too time consuming to implement. Dalux is a user-friendly 3D BIM viewer which brings the familiar 2D drawings to life within the 3D environment (see Picture 1) – an ideal programme to be used as the stepping stone to more complex BIM software solutions. To assess if Dalux would be a suitable tool for us, a single construction project was selected for a pilot case study.Employees were informed by email of the Dalux implementation and were asked to download the app on their phones.Training was organized and delivered to the site team with demonstrations being organized to enable staff to learn through observation.Through completion of this method an opportunity to engage with the trainer while using the app was provided, this allowed the staff to explore the programme without Case 12 Case Study Title: The Journey to Our Digital Transformation Figure 1: Percentage responses with respect to BIM Picture 1: Dalux BIMViewer layout, familiar 2D drawings brought to life within the 3D environment.
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