| The last planner system of production control HG Ballard University of Birmingham, 2000 | 1501 | 2000 |
| Shielding production: essential step in production control G Ballard, G Howell Journal of Construction Engineering and management 124 (1), 11-17, 1998 | 762 | 1998 |
| Lean project management G Ballard, G Howell Building Research & Information 31 (2), 119-133, 2003 | 382 | 2003 |
| Implementing lean construction: stabilizing work flow G Ballard, G Howell Lean construction, 101-110, 1994 | 368 | 1994 |
| The Lean Project Delivery System: An Update. G Ballard Lean Construction Journal, 2008 | 309 | 2008 |
| The last planner G Ballard Northern California Construction Institute, Monterey, California, 1-8, 1994 | 301 | 1994 |
| What kind of production is construction G Ballard, G Howell Proc. 6 th Annual Conf. Int’l. Group for Lean Construction, 13-15, 1998 | 292 | 1998 |
| The foundations of lean construction L Koskela, G Howell, G Ballard, I Tommelein Design and construction: Building in value 291, 211-226, 2002 | 285 | 2002 |
| Lean project delivery system G Ballard White paper 8, 1-6, 2000 | 279 | 2000 |
| An update on last planner G Ballard, G Howell Proc., 11th Annual Conf., International Group for Lean Construction …, 2003 | 263 | 2003 |
| Positive vs negative iteration in design G Ballard Proceedings Eighth Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean …, 2000 | 246 | 2000 |
| Lookahead planning: the missing link in production control G Ballard Proc. 5 th Annl. Conf. Intl. Group for Lean Constr, 1997 | 238 | 1997 |
| Implementing lean construction: understanding and action G Howell, G Ballard Proc. 6 th Ann. Conf. Intl. Group for Lean Constr, 1998 | 231 | 1998 |
| Improving work flow reliability G Ballard Proceedings of the 7 th Annual Conference of the International Group for …, 1999 | 225 | 1999 |
| Soil–water characteristic curve variability CE Zapata, WN Houston, SL Houston, KD Walsh Advances in unsaturated geotechnics, 84-124, 2000 | 209* | 2000 |
| On the agenda of design management research G Ballard, L Koskela Proceedings IGLC 98, 52-69, 1998 | 195 | 1998 |
| Target value design: using collaboration and a lean approach to reduce construction cost D Zimina, G Ballard, C Pasquire Construction Management and Economics 30 (5), 383-398, 2012 | 187 | 2012 |
| Towards lean design management L Koskela, G Ballard, VP Tanhuanpää Proceedings of the 5 th annual conference of the International Group for …, 1997 | 183 | 1997 |
| Competing construction management paradigms G Ballard, GA Howell Construction Research Congress: Wind of Change: Integration and Innovation, 1-8, 2003 | 164 | 2003 |
| Toward construction JIT G Ballard, G Howell Lean construction 291, 300, 1995 | 158 | 1995 |