IDENTIFICA O DAS PRáTICAS DA FILOSOFIA LEAN CONSTRUCTION EM CONSTRUTORAS DE MéDIO PORTE NA CIDADE DE ITABUNA (BA)

Facing the demands of the civil construction and the competition, the construction companies arelooking for new processes, products and tools to execute his projects. The Lean Construction is a philosophythat is being applied by companies to improve their processes, optimize flows and increase the quality oftheir products. The objective of this study is to identify in builders companies of the city of Itabuna the useof Lean Construction practices and in affirmative case present the main practices found. To achieve thisgoal is presented the analysis of four construction companies building vertical, midsize, located in the cityof Itabuna-BA. The results shows that the surveyed companies seek to achieve what the principles of LeanConstruction believes, even though this is not done intentionally, since no they use this methodology asmanagement model