Aims: The claim that the concept of lean thinking, especially the application of muda is applicable to a vast range of operations and processes in widely differing industries, offices, health care, etc. with only “tweaking of details” was tested in this paper on design features a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21784
Aims: The lean thinking concept, especially the application of muda was claimed to apply to a vast range of operations in widely differing industries, with only “tweaking of details”. Thus, varying industries adopted the concept including the built environment from whence terms s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21783
Aims: Many countries, especially in the developing world, did not meet the UN target of 2002 to achieve sustainable development (SD) in their built environment mainly because the issue of existing buildings which form the bulk of building stock were not adequately addressed. This...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13008