Abstract:
Post Disaster Reconstruction (PDR) projects are currently facing many issues. The
highly demanding construction process of PDR projects that involves a number of
different and well-coordinated courses of action can be simplified through integrating
lean construction. Hence, Lean Iceberg Model (LIM) implementation for PDR projects
will eventually minimise the issues in PDR projects. However, there is lack of research
on implementation of lean construction to PDR projects. Therefore, this study aims to
develop a framework to minimise PDR issues through LIM. This research adopted
interpretivism stance and uses the qualitative survey strategy. Semi-structured
interviews were conducted with ten experts, selected based on purposive sampling. The
code-based content analysis was used to data analysis, which was supported by
NVivo12. The findings of the study revealed that lack of quality, lack of budget and delays
as the main issues in PDR projects. The essential part, therefore, was to identify invisible
elements which were most of the times neglected rather than the visible elements of LIM.
Finally, a framework was developed by systematically mapping the identified PDR issues
for both visible and invisible elements of the LIM. In addition, the "LIM for PDR" mobile
application has been developed as part of the framework which deals with educating and
guiding users on a successful implementation of lean in a PDR project through LIM. The
results of this research contribute to overcome the PDR issues which can be derived
from the LIM. Hence, industry practitioners can use the outcomes to successfully
implement lean in PDR projects.
