Complex Healthcare Facility Management and Lean Construction
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Complex healthcare facility management and lean construction.
HERD Vol. 3, No. 2 WINTER 2010 • HEALTH ENVIRONMENTS RESEARCH & DESIGN JOURNAL 3 “Health care projects are very complex, and extensive planning is required to deliver them. Hundreds of participants, thousands of products and systems, and tens of thousands of decisions must be orchestrated on the path to nal completion” (Burgun, Sprague, Stein, & Atkins, 2008, p.119). Healthcare construction may...
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عنوان ژورنال: HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1937-5867,2167-5112
DOI: 10.1177/193758671000300201