We aim to extend to the construction industry the Lean production revolution started in manufacturing. This approach maximizes value delivered to the customer while minimizing waste. A set of Introductory Readings about Lean Construction is now available on the Readings page. We understand that designing and building is different from manufacturing, but principles drawn from Lean Production Management can be applied through techniques tailored for application over the life of a project. Taken together these principles and techniques create Three Opportunities and form the basis for a Lean Project Delivery System.™

Corporate Members of LCI support this research, participate in regular research meetings and implementation meetings. Those contributing at the highest level provide the laboratory to test and refine theory through application in practice. In return, they become industry leaders through the early application of this powerful new approach.

• LCI Cascadia Chapter Meeting, Portland, OR, November 19, 2008
   
• Southern California LCI Chapter Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 20, 2008
   
• Design Forum, Berkeley, CA, January 8-9, 2009
   
• The January 2008 LCI newsletter is now available. Click here to open.
   
• We need your feedback to help us plan for the 2008 LCI Congress! Please complete the 2008 LCI Congress survey at: http://tinyurl.com/2fuvlx
   
• Greg Howell provides a vision for AIA members of the New World of Management by guest editing the Fall 2007 edition of AIA's Practice Management Digest
   
• Audio files and presentations from the LCI-UK Summit 2007 are available at http://www.lci-uk.org/speakers.html.
   
• Collaboration Makes Construction Lean, by Karen Wilhelm, Target Magazine, the periodical of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence.
   
• Papers presented at the International Group for Lean Construction (ILGC) 2007 Annual Conference in Michigan are now posted at:
  http://www.iglc.net/conferences/2007/
  A webcast of the keynote address is located at:
  http://wmsu.org/program.php?id=232
   
• A set of Introductory Readings about Lean Construction is now available from our Readings page.
   
• Presentation and audio materials from the June 12-13, 2006 Design Forum are now available at http://www.leanconstruction.org/files
   
• First Danish Lean Construction Process Prize Awarded
   
• December 2005 Design Forum files are now on line
   
• Lean Construction in the Life Sciences: Pros and Cons
   
• Lean Construction Eliminating the Waste
   
• The 2nd Edition of Lean Construction Journal is now available at http://www.leanconstructionjournal.org/
   
• LCI now linked to affiliated organizations in Denmark and the United Kingdom - click on the flags below the LCI logo
   
• Lean Construction Journal launched
   
• Business Journal Report: "Leaning on new construction management strategy"
   
• LCI requests data from projects and companies implementing various aspects of Lean Construction
   
• Last Planner™ - How Do I Get Started?
   
• Improving program predictability with The Last Planner System™
   
• Lean and Health Care: Three Articles from the East Bay Times on the Sutter Health's Lean initiative
   
• Member Report on the 12th Annual Meeting of the International Group for Lean Construction
   
• A contractor in Finland reports on using Last Planner™
   
• The Lean Construction Institute announces a new organization, membership structure
   
• Article by LCI co-founders describes Lean Project Management
   
• Lean Construction - Overcoming Habit and Tradition
   
• Applying the 5S's of Construction
   
• LCI featured in Lean Manufacturing Advisor Magazine article, "Builders Seek to Demolish Inefficiency."
   
• The Lean Construction Institute of Denmark is established
   
• "The Theory of Project Management is Obsolete" challenges current thinking at PMI Research Conference
   
• LCI posts 4 additional White Papers covering Lean Design,  The Lean Project Delivery System, Project Definition and Workstructuring Revisited
   
• On-line Proceedings of the 2002 Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
   
• Presentations from the Fourth Annual Lean Construction Congress
   
• Constructech Magazine Reports on "The Coming Revolution"
   
• Safety: LCI Defines a New Approach
   

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