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Abstract
Waste is one of the main problems plaguing the construction industry. The need for identifying the sources of waste and eliminating them has resulted in the extension of the concept of lean and the development of lean principles and tools, especially for the construction industry. These include reducing variability in production, and production cycles. The tools used to achieve this include following a pull instead of push approach, use of multifunctional, multiskilled teams, a parallel process of standardization and ideation and the following of just in time schedules. While Lean provides the concepts, its implementation is done by BIM. These theoretical findings were validated by the empiricalresearch conducted by the author construction companies in India. It was found that the large firms in India with well-established reputations and large operations have incorporated both lean and BIM. However, the larger mass of smaller and medium sized firms still follows the conventional construction models.