Lean Construction Ireland Annual Book of Cases 2021 55 l f s s 2 By making BIM development and education a key aspect ofWalls Construction Limited, we gain invaluable possibilities including improving scheduling, improving snagging methods, preventing injuries, and aiding communication. It also aids dramatically in our goal to improve sustainability across all our projects by identifying practices and materials that are increasing our carbon emissions, doing harm to the environment. Essentially,BIM can provide a world of improvements in construction – but they are not achievable until our workforce have a tool like Dalux to help ease into it. Walls Construction Limited is determined to play its part in increasing residential construction output in Ireland.Digital technology and Lean Initiatives can tackle long standing problems in the construction industry such as incompatibility among systems and manual processes that create waste, lead to cost overruns and reduced value for money.By contrast,BIM increases productivity, collaboration, and improved cost management.We have experienced the benefits of BIM after a relatively small case study, and we are excited to see the changes in our building processes and our ability to increase our delivery of residential and other buildings. Summary and Lessons Learned By giving the facilities for people on site to expand their knowledge on BIM, the overall standard across the company will improve and lessen the identified skill gap. It also provides opportunities for staff to develop further and expand into roles that they hadn’t previously thought possible.Additionally, by increasing the number of workers familiar with these systems we can start to look at introducing the likes of 5D models in the future, integrating scheduling and financial information to improve the overall efficiency of our project management. With the active involvement of our employees, our journey to lean and digitalisation is underway and tremendous progress is being made. Our senior management team is fully committed both in terms of both the time and financial investment required and by showing leadership in terms of fostering and maintaining an environment where ideas are shared with creativity and innovation encouraged and acted upon.This initiative provided us with training and technology needed to have the first taste of the benefits of BIM and we look forward to continuing our journey. Case 12
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