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Research paper thumbnail of Multi-disciplinary Discourse on Design-related Issues in Construction Site Meetings

Procedia. Economics and finance, 2015

ScienceDirect 8th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organization Multidisciplinary ... more ScienceDirect 8th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organization Multidisciplinary discourse on design-related issues in construction site meetings

Research paper thumbnail of Miten se oltais voitu estää? Kertomuksia rakennustyömaan tapaturmista: Narratiivinen tutkimus rakennusalan tapaturmista ja niiden merkityksistä ihmisten elämälle tapaturman kokeneiden kertomana

Research paper thumbnail of Konsepti - toimintakonseptin uudistajien verkkolehti, vol. 7 (2012) : numero 1-2

Research paper thumbnail of Challenges of the expansive use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in construction projects

Production, 2015

We use the term expansion in its activity-theoretical meaning as the potentials of transformation... more We use the term expansion in its activity-theoretical meaning as the potentials of transformation in an activity brought about with the use of digital BIM software.

Research paper thumbnail of Multi-disciplinary Discourse on Design-related Issues in Construction Site Meetings

Procedia Economics and Finance, 2015

ScienceDirect 8th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organization Multidisciplinary ... more ScienceDirect 8th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organization Multidisciplinary discourse on design-related issues in construction site meetings

Research paper thumbnail of Challenges of the expansive i use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Construction Projects

Produção

Building information modeling (BIM) is an emerging modeling technology which challenges existing ... more Building information modeling (BIM) is an emerging modeling technology which challenges existing work procedures and practices in the construction industry. In this article we study the challenges, problems and potential expansions of BIM as a tool in the design, construction and operation of buildings. For this purpose the interfaces between different parties are examined in Finnish construction projects. The methodological approach of the study is cultural-historical activity theory, according to which a new artifact becomes a mediating instrument when the participatory subjects reconfigure the entire activity. The implementation of BIM is now spreading from the design activity to other phases of the construction projects, but its use is still limited in the projects' other three interfaces. BIM is an evolving set of software developed for various purposes which is locally 'combined' to fit the circumstances and capabilities of the stakeholders of the construction proc...

Research paper thumbnail of ViBR – Conceptualising a Virtual Big Room through the Framework of People, Processes and Technology

Procedia Economics and Finance, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Expanding uses of building information modeling in life-cycle construction projects

Work (Reading, Mass.), 2012

BIM is targeted at providing information about the entire building and a complete set of design d... more BIM is targeted at providing information about the entire building and a complete set of design documents and data stored in an integrated database. In this paper, we study the use of BIM in two life-cycle construction projects in Kuopio, Finland during 2011. The analysis of uses of BIM and their main problems will constitute a foundation for an intervention. We will focus on the following questions: (1) How different partners use the composite BIM model? (2) What are the major contradictions or problems in the BIM use? The preliminary findings reported in this study show that BIM has been adopted quite generally to design use but the old ways of collaboration seem to prevail, especially between designers and between designers and building sites. BIM has provided new means and demands for collaboration but expansive uses of BIM for providing new interactive processes across professional fields have not much come true.

Research paper thumbnail of In Time at Last–Adaption of Last Planner Tools for the Design Phase of a Building Project

This study focuses on identifying how implementing the Last Planner System (LPS) tools can mitiga... more This study focuses on identifying how implementing the Last Planner System (LPS) tools can mitigate collaboration-related problems in design. The theoretical approach of the study is based on the cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) and the data collection involved the observation of collaboration between designers in traditional design meetings and LPS meetings. How does the implementation of the Last Planner (LP) tools change the collaboration of designers? How does the temporal orientation change during LPS meetings? The implementation of the LP tools brought about positive results in our case organization. The changes in collaboration involved transitions from formal to emerging agenda, from the use of rule-based tools to the use of new tools, from reactive to proactive temporal orientation, and towards better completion of the design tasks in the design meetings. Communication between different design disciplines increased during the LPS meetings. Especially, the main designer was able to take an active role in the LPS meetings with the help of new tools. During the process, the concerns to interdependency between design disciplines increased.

Research paper thumbnail of 07. Rakentamisen tietomallintaminen

Konsepti – Toimintakonseptin uudistajien verkkolehden 7 (1-2), 2012 artikkelit on julkaistu HELDA... more Konsepti – Toimintakonseptin uudistajien verkkolehden 7 (1-2), 2012 artikkelit on julkaistu HELDA:ssa 10.3.2015 samansisältöisenä kuin Muutoslaboratorion verkkosivuilla alun perin 30.5.2012 julkaistun tuplanumeron artikkelit lukuun ottamatta ylä- ja alatunnisteita ja korjattuja linkityksiä

Research paper thumbnail of ”Se on ihmisten kanssa tehtävää työtä” : toiminnanteoreettinen tutkimus työmaan työnjohdon työstä, yhteistyöstä ja uusista välineistä rakennushankkeessa

This study examines the site managers’ daily work, collaboration in construction projects and the... more This study examines the site managers’ daily work, collaboration in construction projects and the implementation of new tools. The theoretical framework of the study draws from the cultural-historical activ-ity theory and the theory of expansive learning. The activity theory provides an analytical model to study the elements of historically emerging activities and the tensions between the elements. The ethnographic methodology is applied for collecting and analysing the data of the first and second articles. The data were collected by shadowing site managers in their daily work and by observing the site meetings, where project participants collaboratively solved design-related open questions between 2011 and 2013. The model of expansive learning was applied in the analysis of the third article. The data were collected by interviewing and observing the implementation processes of the Last Planner method in three organisations between 2016 and 2017. The study shows that site managers’...

Research paper thumbnail of Challenges of the expansive 1 use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in construction projects

We use the term expansion in its activity-theoretical meaning as the potentials of transformation... more We use the term expansion in its activity-theoretical meaning as the potentials of transformation in an activity brought about with the use of digital BIM software. Abstract Building information modeling (BIM) is an emerging modeling technology which challenges existing work procedures and practices in the construction industry. In this article we study the challenges, problems and potential expansions of BIM as a tool in the design, construction and operation of buildings. For this purpose the interfaces between different parties are examined in Finnish construction projects. The methodological approach of the study is culturalhistorical activity theory, according to which a new artifact becomes a mediating instrument when the participatory subjects reconfigure the entire activity. The implementation of BIM is now spreading from the design activity to other phases of the construction projects, but its use is still limited in the projects' other three interfaces. BIM is an evol...

Research paper thumbnail of 05. Tietomallintamisen käytöt rakentamisessa

Konsepti – Toimintakonseptin uudistajien verkkolehden 7 (1-2), 2012 artikkelit on julkaistu HELDA... more Konsepti – Toimintakonseptin uudistajien verkkolehden 7 (1-2), 2012 artikkelit on julkaistu HELDA:ssa 10.3.2015 samansisaltoisena kuin Muutoslaboratorion verkkosivuilla alun perin 30.5.2012 julkaistun tuplanumeron artikkelit lukuun ottamatta yla- ja alatunnisteita ja korjattuja linkityksia.

Research paper thumbnail of Correction: This has been a real uphill battle — three organisations for the adoption of Last Planner System

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Hankkeista oppiminen : tietomallintamisen johtaminen, organisointi ja koordinointi rakennushankkeissa

Research paper thumbnail of Windows to collaborative uses of BIM: Emerging breakpoints of coordination in BIM-mediated building design

Research paper thumbnail of An Examination of Safety Meetings on Construction Sites

Communication occurs in the way people understand what others are saying. On a construction site,... more Communication occurs in the way people understand what others are saying. On a construction site, meetings of various types are the arena where the participants should share their understandings on safety issues and topics. A considerable portion of work time in a project at hand is spent in meetings. Meetings should promote work safety on a construction site, but do they? What is gained in the meetings? Are people truly participating or is a meeting just a “must” or a “play with a mutual manuscript”. The objective of this paper is to elaborate findings from project safety meetings in Finnish construction sites. The research questions are: What issues are discussed in the course of safety meetings? How do the participants share their knowledge in the meetings? What issues or methods inspire the participants to discuss in the meetings? What could Lean Construction have to offer to the way we manage safety? This paper begins by an introduction and a literature review to management cul...

Research paper thumbnail of Rakennustöiden laatu 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Tää on ollut meille kyllä tosi tuskasta....: Tarinoita rakennusalan muutoshankkeista

Research paper thumbnail of Knotworking - A novel BIM-based collaboration practice in building design projects

Knotworking represents a distributed collaborative expertise in pursuit of a task that is organiz... more Knotworking represents a distributed collaborative expertise in pursuit of a task that is organized among designers from different design disciplines. Construction processes involve phases and tasks that cannot be solved in one organization only, as integration of expert knowledge from various sources is needed. Through knotworking, groups of people, tasks and tools are set to work intensively for a short period of time to solve a problem or accomplish a task. Knotworking requires intensive collaboration across organizational boundaries and hierarchies. The practice of knotworking has been developed and applied in the development of healthcare organizations, libraries and schooluniversity relationships, but it has not previously been applied in the construction industry. In this paper, we describe the concept of knotworking and the findings of a case study that we completed in the Finnish construction industry. We will also compare the similarities and differences of the Big Room an...

Research paper thumbnail of Multi-disciplinary Discourse on Design-related Issues in Construction Site Meetings

Procedia. Economics and finance, 2015

ScienceDirect 8th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organization Multidisciplinary ... more ScienceDirect 8th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organization Multidisciplinary discourse on design-related issues in construction site meetings

Research paper thumbnail of Miten se oltais voitu estää? Kertomuksia rakennustyömaan tapaturmista: Narratiivinen tutkimus rakennusalan tapaturmista ja niiden merkityksistä ihmisten elämälle tapaturman kokeneiden kertomana

Research paper thumbnail of Konsepti - toimintakonseptin uudistajien verkkolehti, vol. 7 (2012) : numero 1-2

Research paper thumbnail of Challenges of the expansive use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in construction projects

Production, 2015

We use the term expansion in its activity-theoretical meaning as the potentials of transformation... more We use the term expansion in its activity-theoretical meaning as the potentials of transformation in an activity brought about with the use of digital BIM software.

Research paper thumbnail of Multi-disciplinary Discourse on Design-related Issues in Construction Site Meetings

Procedia Economics and Finance, 2015

ScienceDirect 8th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organization Multidisciplinary ... more ScienceDirect 8th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organization Multidisciplinary discourse on design-related issues in construction site meetings

Research paper thumbnail of Challenges of the expansive i use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Construction Projects

Produção

Building information modeling (BIM) is an emerging modeling technology which challenges existing ... more Building information modeling (BIM) is an emerging modeling technology which challenges existing work procedures and practices in the construction industry. In this article we study the challenges, problems and potential expansions of BIM as a tool in the design, construction and operation of buildings. For this purpose the interfaces between different parties are examined in Finnish construction projects. The methodological approach of the study is cultural-historical activity theory, according to which a new artifact becomes a mediating instrument when the participatory subjects reconfigure the entire activity. The implementation of BIM is now spreading from the design activity to other phases of the construction projects, but its use is still limited in the projects' other three interfaces. BIM is an evolving set of software developed for various purposes which is locally 'combined' to fit the circumstances and capabilities of the stakeholders of the construction proc...

Research paper thumbnail of ViBR – Conceptualising a Virtual Big Room through the Framework of People, Processes and Technology

Procedia Economics and Finance, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Expanding uses of building information modeling in life-cycle construction projects

Work (Reading, Mass.), 2012

BIM is targeted at providing information about the entire building and a complete set of design d... more BIM is targeted at providing information about the entire building and a complete set of design documents and data stored in an integrated database. In this paper, we study the use of BIM in two life-cycle construction projects in Kuopio, Finland during 2011. The analysis of uses of BIM and their main problems will constitute a foundation for an intervention. We will focus on the following questions: (1) How different partners use the composite BIM model? (2) What are the major contradictions or problems in the BIM use? The preliminary findings reported in this study show that BIM has been adopted quite generally to design use but the old ways of collaboration seem to prevail, especially between designers and between designers and building sites. BIM has provided new means and demands for collaboration but expansive uses of BIM for providing new interactive processes across professional fields have not much come true.

Research paper thumbnail of In Time at Last–Adaption of Last Planner Tools for the Design Phase of a Building Project

This study focuses on identifying how implementing the Last Planner System (LPS) tools can mitiga... more This study focuses on identifying how implementing the Last Planner System (LPS) tools can mitigate collaboration-related problems in design. The theoretical approach of the study is based on the cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) and the data collection involved the observation of collaboration between designers in traditional design meetings and LPS meetings. How does the implementation of the Last Planner (LP) tools change the collaboration of designers? How does the temporal orientation change during LPS meetings? The implementation of the LP tools brought about positive results in our case organization. The changes in collaboration involved transitions from formal to emerging agenda, from the use of rule-based tools to the use of new tools, from reactive to proactive temporal orientation, and towards better completion of the design tasks in the design meetings. Communication between different design disciplines increased during the LPS meetings. Especially, the main designer was able to take an active role in the LPS meetings with the help of new tools. During the process, the concerns to interdependency between design disciplines increased.

Research paper thumbnail of 07. Rakentamisen tietomallintaminen

Konsepti – Toimintakonseptin uudistajien verkkolehden 7 (1-2), 2012 artikkelit on julkaistu HELDA... more Konsepti – Toimintakonseptin uudistajien verkkolehden 7 (1-2), 2012 artikkelit on julkaistu HELDA:ssa 10.3.2015 samansisältöisenä kuin Muutoslaboratorion verkkosivuilla alun perin 30.5.2012 julkaistun tuplanumeron artikkelit lukuun ottamatta ylä- ja alatunnisteita ja korjattuja linkityksiä

Research paper thumbnail of ”Se on ihmisten kanssa tehtävää työtä” : toiminnanteoreettinen tutkimus työmaan työnjohdon työstä, yhteistyöstä ja uusista välineistä rakennushankkeessa

This study examines the site managers’ daily work, collaboration in construction projects and the... more This study examines the site managers’ daily work, collaboration in construction projects and the implementation of new tools. The theoretical framework of the study draws from the cultural-historical activ-ity theory and the theory of expansive learning. The activity theory provides an analytical model to study the elements of historically emerging activities and the tensions between the elements. The ethnographic methodology is applied for collecting and analysing the data of the first and second articles. The data were collected by shadowing site managers in their daily work and by observing the site meetings, where project participants collaboratively solved design-related open questions between 2011 and 2013. The model of expansive learning was applied in the analysis of the third article. The data were collected by interviewing and observing the implementation processes of the Last Planner method in three organisations between 2016 and 2017. The study shows that site managers’...

Research paper thumbnail of Challenges of the expansive 1 use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in construction projects

We use the term expansion in its activity-theoretical meaning as the potentials of transformation... more We use the term expansion in its activity-theoretical meaning as the potentials of transformation in an activity brought about with the use of digital BIM software. Abstract Building information modeling (BIM) is an emerging modeling technology which challenges existing work procedures and practices in the construction industry. In this article we study the challenges, problems and potential expansions of BIM as a tool in the design, construction and operation of buildings. For this purpose the interfaces between different parties are examined in Finnish construction projects. The methodological approach of the study is culturalhistorical activity theory, according to which a new artifact becomes a mediating instrument when the participatory subjects reconfigure the entire activity. The implementation of BIM is now spreading from the design activity to other phases of the construction projects, but its use is still limited in the projects' other three interfaces. BIM is an evol...

Research paper thumbnail of 05. Tietomallintamisen käytöt rakentamisessa

Konsepti – Toimintakonseptin uudistajien verkkolehden 7 (1-2), 2012 artikkelit on julkaistu HELDA... more Konsepti – Toimintakonseptin uudistajien verkkolehden 7 (1-2), 2012 artikkelit on julkaistu HELDA:ssa 10.3.2015 samansisaltoisena kuin Muutoslaboratorion verkkosivuilla alun perin 30.5.2012 julkaistun tuplanumeron artikkelit lukuun ottamatta yla- ja alatunnisteita ja korjattuja linkityksia.

Research paper thumbnail of Correction: This has been a real uphill battle — three organisations for the adoption of Last Planner System

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Hankkeista oppiminen : tietomallintamisen johtaminen, organisointi ja koordinointi rakennushankkeissa

Research paper thumbnail of Windows to collaborative uses of BIM: Emerging breakpoints of coordination in BIM-mediated building design

Research paper thumbnail of An Examination of Safety Meetings on Construction Sites

Communication occurs in the way people understand what others are saying. On a construction site,... more Communication occurs in the way people understand what others are saying. On a construction site, meetings of various types are the arena where the participants should share their understandings on safety issues and topics. A considerable portion of work time in a project at hand is spent in meetings. Meetings should promote work safety on a construction site, but do they? What is gained in the meetings? Are people truly participating or is a meeting just a “must” or a “play with a mutual manuscript”. The objective of this paper is to elaborate findings from project safety meetings in Finnish construction sites. The research questions are: What issues are discussed in the course of safety meetings? How do the participants share their knowledge in the meetings? What issues or methods inspire the participants to discuss in the meetings? What could Lean Construction have to offer to the way we manage safety? This paper begins by an introduction and a literature review to management cul...

Research paper thumbnail of Rakennustöiden laatu 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Tää on ollut meille kyllä tosi tuskasta....: Tarinoita rakennusalan muutoshankkeista

Research paper thumbnail of Knotworking - A novel BIM-based collaboration practice in building design projects

Knotworking represents a distributed collaborative expertise in pursuit of a task that is organiz... more Knotworking represents a distributed collaborative expertise in pursuit of a task that is organized among designers from different design disciplines. Construction processes involve phases and tasks that cannot be solved in one organization only, as integration of expert knowledge from various sources is needed. Through knotworking, groups of people, tasks and tools are set to work intensively for a short period of time to solve a problem or accomplish a task. Knotworking requires intensive collaboration across organizational boundaries and hierarchies. The practice of knotworking has been developed and applied in the development of healthcare organizations, libraries and schooluniversity relationships, but it has not previously been applied in the construction industry. In this paper, we describe the concept of knotworking and the findings of a case study that we completed in the Finnish construction industry. We will also compare the similarities and differences of the Big Room an...