Six Sigma Implementation within the Building Construction Industry. A Case Study of the Research Building Construction

      Аннотация: This book is based on a research project on the implementation of Six Sigma within the Research Building Construction Industry. The case studies presented have been researched in Germany. Six Sigma consists in improving the projects mainly in terms of quality and also in terms of time management. According to the Six Sigma system, the goal is to detect the errors in those fields. This can consequently improve and optimise the projects, which have been already implemented with Six Sigma. Moreover, this system can also reduce the errors, and that means less work accidents and less extra money waste, by means of focusing on quality and time management. This system has already been implemented in different fields such as service, hospitality, finance, retail, automotive, media, manufacturing and in its first implementation in the year 1987, in the information technology industry by the company “Motorola”. It is to be considered though that early delivery is not always profitable, owing to the possibility of a quality reduction in the final product of the project. For this reason, an equivalence must exist between time and quality.

Ключевые слова: construction industry, lean construction, Project Management, Six Sigma