Benefits of Lean Construction application in the Construction Industry

This work presents a review of the literature on the benefits of applying Lean in the construction industry. There are negative factors that influence productivity, which generate inefficiencies, delays, poor quality, increased costs, and claims by third parties, among other aspects; but these may be corrected through the application of Lean Construction. The scope of this work is to show the benefits that Lean thinking gives to the construction industry, using its different tools and allowing these problems to be solved or avoided. 51 documents were reviewed, published between 2008 and 2020: 29 articles are from Scopus, 10 from ResearchGate, four from ScienceDirect and the rest distributed between SciELO, Taylor & Francis, Emerald Insight, Semantic Scholar, ASCE and EBSCO. From the literature survey, it was demonstrated that applying Lean Construction it achieves sustainability, transparency in construction projects through good planning, correct design, good management, execution and control of projects for the achievement of objectives proposed by contractors in the construction industry.