Lean Construction Ireland Annual Book of Cases 2021 60 l f 2 Company Overview ACB GROUP acbgroup.ie ACB Group is a 100% Irish owned Company who has grown and excelled both nationally and internationally, having more than 19 years of industry experience on a myriad of complex and fastmoving projects. Our aim is to be the ‘go-to’ data centre solutions provider in the global market, while being recognised for our commitment to Safety, Quality and Sustainability, benefitting clients and trade partners alike. At ACB Group we deliver the complete design and build solution for your building envelope, including roofing and façade systems along with internal cladding solutions.We are accredited with ISO 9001:2015 (Quality), ISO 45001:2018 (Health and Safety) and are the only BIM Level 2 certified roofing and cladding subcontractor in Ireland. In May 2022, ACB Group were awarded a Silver Medal for sustainable business practices from EcoVadis. At the beginning of 2022,ACB opened the manufacturing arm of the business,ACB Manufacturing (ACB-m) and uses modern methods of construction to help deliver off-site fabrication in its Cavan location. Figure 1: Design image of theACB Innovation Hub in Ballyjamesduff, Cavan. Luke Carroll Author Overview & Background to the Lean Initiative Lean Initiative Undertaken – Lean Thinking, Tools, Techniques In 2022, ACB Manufacturing (ACB-m) successfully began trading, supplying off-site prefabricated solutions for data centre clients. As an organisation dedicated to lean initiatives and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), ACB Group saw an opportunity to offer clients a federated external envelope solution using off-site manufacturing with the aim of controlling the data centre envelope components. This will ultimately get stakeholders a step closer to NZEB Building Envelope (Nearly Zero Energy Building). ACB-mwill provide greater supply chain resilience by backward integrating the manufacture of 10% of the building materials currently purchased on the global market and facilitate future sustainable construction solutions. ACB-m Hub will allow ACB Group to optimise design with standardised, modularised, and prefabricated building components using key principles, and practices of off-site manufacturing (OSM). OSMwill helpACB Group in reducing programme times, improving quality and quality control, improving health and safety on-site, and achieving sustainability goals. Just like all other operational activities undertaken byACB Group, the introduction of ACB-m will adhere to the lean principle of “Pursue Perfection”, seeking to continuously improve the way we deliver data centres and other projects. LeanTools Used: PDCA The face of construction is changing rapidly with the introduction of modern methods of construction and innovative ways to deliver projects. Mission critical infrastructure is adopting a smarter way of constructing data centres, with examples of prefabricated, modular units housing client data. Through the introduction of ACB-m to the market, ACB will migrate towards industry 4.0 through prefabricating 10% of all building finishes off-site (and on-site in mobile workshops) and utilise the ‘Plan-Do-Check-Act’ (PDCA) framework to proposing a change to the current wayACB Contracting (ACB-c) procure material. The PDCA checklist will act as the roadmap to transition ordering from current clients toACB-m, thus controlling the supply chain. Just inTime (JIT) Within the ACB-m suite of offerings is the deployment of ACB mobile workshops to selected data centre sites throughout Ireland and Europe.The JIT system set up on site allows ACB to ship raw materials to site for fabrication when needed, to the exact specification of the building.The raw material is cut and bended Natalia Kozlowska Author Case 14 Case Study Title: Towards Modern Methods of Construction Using Lean Principles
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