Critical Success Factors towards the Adoption of Lean Practices (LPs) in the Nigerian Building Industry

Abstract

Lean construction practices have been adopted in the building industry to address issues of cost and time overruns and material waste, which are crippling the growth and development of the industry. However, the implementation of Lean Practices (LPs) have been identified to be low due to some factors that limiting its adoption. Therefore, there is a need to identify factors that could encourage LPs adoption in the Nigerian building industry towards acquiring its numerous benefits. Thus, this study examined such factors that can encourage the successful implementation of LPs in Nigeria. The study was carried out using questionnaire survey for data collection. Data was sampled from building industry professionals who represented selected firms from five geopolitical zones of Nigeria. A descriptive analysis was conducted on the data collected and the results were presented using tables. Results from the investigation revealed training and education of employees, motivation of personnel towards new methods and change, and improvement of projects and parties’ coordination as the important factors that could encourage the adoption of LPs in the Nigerian building industry. Therefore, stakeholders should pay attention to these three critical success factors among others towards increasing the adoption of LPs in the Nigerian building industry.