Capital Projects: Turning Brief into Built Reality

We are currently in the pre-construction phase of a significant relocation and fit-out (multi-floor, complex brief, tight programme) with a business that has strong opinions about the end product and limited appetite for delays and overruns. The Lean Construction (LC) approach has been described as a practical collection of theories, principles, strategies, techniques, and ways of thinking that together enhance project teams and individuals to improve work processes and produce better value (Mossman 2018). I have been doing a deep dive into lean construction methodology to assess how applicable it is to a large office fit-out context where we are the client, not the contr…