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Abstract

Indian Construction projects suffer from cost and time overruns which leads to wastage and productivity problems that directly affect overall industry’s profitability and economy. Today’s economically developed nations also face these problems. As a result, researches and methodologies have been developed to reduce the risk of overruns and improve project outcomes. A number of these methods are based upon Lean production principles that focus on identifying value, eliminating wastage and creating a smooth flow of materials, information and work. Slow adaptation of these Lean concepts by contractors has also been noticed from the past decade. This principle has been found to improve the reliability of project delivery in complex construction environments. However, implementation of this technique is being a great challenge as it requires technical expertise as well as lots of paper works behind. This paper focus mainly on incorporating traditional management system followed with Lean construction thereby developing a simplified lean implementation framework and recording format to measure daily performance occurred and required in construction projects. By effectively utilizing these data, various analyses generating value adding reports and information for continual improvement of the project shall be achieved. Proper investigation of these reports and finding out the root cause would facilitate construction projects to be free from time and cost overrun.