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AUGENBROE, Godfried. Towards a construction industry paradigm. In: ENCONTRO LATINO AMERICANO DE GESTIÓN Y ECONOMÍA DE LA CONTRUCCIÓN, 2., 2008, Santiago. Anais… Santiago, 2008.
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This paper addresses the need to “know why” we build by looking first at the systemic nature, and complexity, that informs the construction industry’s current paradigm. An objective of this paper is to present how the construction industry’s reigning paradigm is driven by an obfuscating manufacturingindustrial-engineering mindset. Under the NAICS (North American Industry Classification System of the US Census Bureau), the construction industry is listed in the service sector of the economy under section 23 and is broken down into many categories, such as Buildings (236) and Heavy and Civil (237). Construction is considered a ‘basic industry’, like manufacturing, mining, fishing and farming. This industrial classification system implies a scientific-industrial-manufacturing-managing paradigm that is expeted to overarch all industries. Latham (1994) and Egan (1998, 2002) have, over the past ten years, challenged the industry to improve its efficiency as well as the quality of its output. Failure by the industry to achieve these efficiencies points to a lack of understanding of the systemic nature of the industry. The authors are interested in theories and philosophies, the “why” that explains the “how.” If construction can not be viewed in the same light of a manufacturing industry, then what is the paradigm of the construction industry?

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