Control panel and indicators for production control in building projects

• Main Authors: Orihuela Pablo, Pacheco Santiago, Orihuela Jorge
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2018-02-01
• Series: Organization, Technology and Management in Construction: An International Journal
• Subjects: benchmarking; continuous improvement; lagging indicators; leading indicators; key performance indicators
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/otmcj-2016-0027

In general, every project should have indicators that monitor compliance with established goals. In con­struction projects, there are a large number of indicators proposed by many researchers; however, an analysis of the state of the art shows a frequent confusion between Result, Process and Leading Indicators. This paper, which is an extended version of the paper sub­mitted by the same authors at the Creative Construction Conference 2017 and published in Procedia Engineering (DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2017.07.230), presents a proposal of these three types of indicators for the design, supply and assembly phases of housing projects. Thus, all project stakeholders can have a control panel that will monitor if an indicator exceeds the limits, thereby allowing taking corrective actions in a timely and effective manner.