Book Review: Nine Transforming Keys to Lowering Costs, Cutting Waste, and Driving Change in a Broken Industry by Rex Miller, Dean Strombom, Mark Iammarino, and Bill Black
2012
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Author: Yash Singh
Citation:
Singh, Y. (2011). Book Review: Nine Transforming Keys to Lowering Costs, Cutting Waste, and Driving Change in a Broken Industry by Rex Miller, Dean Strombom, Mark Iammarino, and Bill Black. Lean Construction Journal, 2012, pp 21-23.
Abstract:
The book addresses core issues ingrained as legacy system or conventional wisdom in the AEC industry, which have been eroding the capital cost for owners and draining the efficiency from design and construction processes. Although a radical shift from these issues is still required and widespread breakthroughs have yet to be made, the explanation of prevailing wastes in this book is persuasive and would surely educate the masses; whether students or general practitioners in the industry. Conventional project delivery systems fail to provide desired and potential value to every stakeholder; be it the developer, building users, contractors, or designers. The book presents this theory in the form of some harsh and may be unknown facts, well supported with relevant examples.