The LCI Greater Des Moines CoP is forming to provide a community where owners, designers, builders, trade partners and Lean professionals can connect and benefit from educational and networking events. Stay tuned for the first event to be launched in mid-fall! Be sure to update your MyLCI account preferences to include the Greater Des Moines CoP if you’re located in the region to receive invitations to local events.
LCI-Greater Des Moines Core Group:
Leader — Jeff Scandrett, Hy-Vee Construction
Vice-Leader — Larry Cormicle, Iowa State University
Events Leader — Dave Regenold, The Baker Group
Core Group Member — Burke Sandman, The Weitz Company
For questions or comments about this CoP please contact derminger@leanconstruction.org
10/9/2018 at 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
What: A Lean Coffee focusing on Value Stream Mapping
Where: The Baker Group, 1600 SE Corporate Woods Drive, Ankeny, IA 50021
RSVP to leanrsvp@weitz.com
Note: The Greater Des Moines CoP is currently transitioning into the LCI organization. This event is not in the LCI registration system so please use the above link if you would like to attend. We look forward to seeing you!
The LCI Lean Learning Series is a facilitated discussion-oriented event focused on a specific Lean subject matter. The event is more structured than a Lean Coffee, yet shorter and less structured thn an LCI education course. Its purpose is to provide just enough knowledge base to kcick start an engaging Lean discussion among the participants.
This topic introduces A3 Thinking for collaborative problem solving.
Participants will learn the definition of an A3, the problem solving structure with explanation of each step of the A3 format.
Speaker:
Larry Cormicle is the President of Cormicle Consulting Services, L.L.C. Larry recently retired from Iowa State University after 17 years as a Teaching Professor of Construction Engineering. Larry brings his 24 years of professional experience as a general contractor, construction manager, professional engineer and his 29 years as a educator.
This Introduction to Lean Project Delivery webinar will introduce Lean as relative to the design and construction industry. Participants will learn why Lean matters for their projects and why they should care. They will be introduced to the key principles and wastes that are foundational to Lean.
During this presentation, participants will learn to:
As project teams look to advance improvements to workflow, implementing 5S as a core Lean method leads to better efficiency by keeping the jobsite organized, clean, safe and productive. By participating the 5S In Construction webinar, you will discover the 5S steps as primarily appropriate to the field. Real-project examples support implementing 5S on your projects.
Learning Objectives
LCI Greater Des Moines Community of Practice
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Utilizing the Last Planner System® (LPS) On All Projects, Regardless of Size
Have you ever heard: LPS isn’t for all projects? LPS only works on large projects? LPS can’t be used in the design phase because things change too much? Keen Project Solutions will share some successes and challenges with implementation and maintaining the use of LPS on all projects. This will include sharing of some best practices and challenges while requesting input from the CoP and sharing our thoughts with questions from the community. Keen will also overview equipment marking using visual management systems, workable backlog improvements, and standardization of job trailer setups.
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SPEAKER:
Dustin Waters – Keen Project Solutions – Vice President of Keen Project Solutions
Registration Rate: Free
LCI Greater Des Moines Community of Practice
presents
Turner/MSFT presentation on High Risk Activity integration in LPS
Safety planning is often an isolated process from other construction processes such as trade coordination, change order management, quality control/quality assurance, and project meetings. Engaging front line craft workers, supervisors, management and safety professionals with a common language and understanding of High Risk Activities (HRAs) will provide a more comprehensive process to plan and mitigate the potential for serious injuries or incidents. This presentation will explain how HRAs are fully integrated with the Last Planner System and other processes to eliminate the treatment of safety as a silo and independent from project coordination. The presenters will explain how HRAs are incorporated in contract schedules, pull plans, Weekly Work Plans, Make Ready Meetings, Daily Huddles and morning stretch and flex. The panel members, will give their perspective of the process as trade partners, Microsoft, general contractor, and safety professionals. We must plan for smooth reliable flow. We must make a plan for quality! And, most importantly, we must plan to be injury free!
Registration Rate: Free
LCI Greater Des Moines Community of Practice
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ISU Gerdin Building Addition – Tour
Join us for a tour at Story Construction’s ISU Gerdin Building Addition. A chance to see Story Construction’s CP 2.0 and its application on a board of Regents-Public Sector- Design Build Project.
We will be meeting inside the College of Business in the Business Café on the 1st level at 7:30 a.m. Exit the parking ramp to the south and follow the sidewalk around the outside of the construction fence to the south entrance to the Gerdin College of Business building. Take the stairs/elevator to the 1st level and the Business Café is to the south of the main entrance doors from the west.
We will break in to two groups with a tour of Story Construction’s CP2.0 trailer and a presentation starting at 8:00 a.m. and promptly wrap up at 9:00 a.m.
Parking – Parking is available on top level of the parking ramp off of Wallace Road. Wallace Road is closed south of the parking ramp, so you will need to approach the parking ramp from the north. Parking is submit to all applicable ISU Parking regulations
Registration Rate: Free
LCI Greater Des Moines Community of Practice
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Microsoft Jobsite Tour-
Turner Construction
Turner Construction will be giving a jobsite tour of their Des Moines Microsoft project. This event will start with a panel discussion with trade partners, superintendents, and other team members about their lean journey throughout this project. The event will conclude with a tour of the jobsite focusing on visual management and 5S in the field.
This event will be able to host 25 attendees. Please limit 2 per company. Sign up soon!
Registration Rate – Free (Registration Required)
Visitors will need a photo ID and sign-in at the security office at the visitor entrance
LCI Greater Des Moines Community of Practice
presents
Better Building Workshop
The business of creating our built environment remains largely silos and disconnected today. Owners, designers, construction managers, and trade contractors each defend their profit margins by shifting risk to others and focusing on their own piece of the puzzle. Lean thinking promises to change all this, yet has proven particularly difficult to implement in the building industry.
Better Building provides a practical model for putting Lean thinking into action and improving the experience of project work. Based on years of experience shifting mindsets and behaviors, this model answers the most often asked questions and provides a roadmap for navigating the toughest parts of a Lean transformation journey in the project-driven environment.
Whether exploring Lean for the first time or sharpening skills of leadership and continuous improvement, every individual, team or organization will benefit from these insights.
Join Klaus Lemke as he shares some of the experiences and insights that went into the development of the Better Building model. The session will include practical advice for incorporating Lean thinking into project-driven work, and a chance to exchange ideas and challenge your own thinking about what is possible.
Recommended Reading: Lemke Reading
Speaker:
Klaus Lemke– Lean Project, Inc. – Klaus is Managing Principal of LeanProject, Inc.. His expertise spans all aspects of design and construction, with a career-long focus on continuous improvement. A Civil Engineering graduate from the University of Illinois, his early experience with Total Quality Management and Lean form the basis of his personal philosophy on organizational management.
Klaus recognizes that a healthy learning environment is essential for creating real and sustainable change.
This course is registered with AIA CES for 4 LU|HSW credits
Registration Rate:
Member: $80.00
Non-Member: $100.00
Continental breakfast will be provided from 7:30 AM- 8:00 AM
Program Starts at 8:00 AM
LCI Greater Des Moines Community of Practice
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A Lean Coffee – Getting the Flywheel Started
A follow-up discussion to last month’s presentation, Building a Lean Organization: Empowering People to Change
Join us for a Lean Coffee to learn and support each other in our Lean endeavors! Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required.
Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.
Attendance is free of charge.
Coffee will be provided
Parking – Baker Group Parking Lot
LCI Greater Des Moines Community of Practice
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Building A Lean Organization: Empowering People to Change
This month Hy-Vee Constriction will be sharing their lean journey transformation. Join us to Connect, Share and Learn.
Attendance is free of charge.
Parking – Baker Group Parking Lot
LCI Greater Des Moines Community of Practice
presents
A Lean Coffee
Join us for a Lean Coffee to learn and support each other in our Lean endeavors! Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required.
Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.
Attendance is free of charge.
Coffee will be provided
Parking – Baker Group Parking Lot
presents
Do you feel like you relive the same project outcomes repeatedly? Do your projects suffer schedule slippage and productivity challenges? If you are experiencing workflow challenges in your construction projects, design efforts, and/or management systems and can’t seem to break free from this cycle, we think we can help.
Overcome your cynicism and despair and join us on January 8, 2019, for the Parade of Trades® Simulation which will give you insights into this common issue, and ways to rethink how workflow is established. Through a fun, hands-on exercise, reliable workflow principles will come to life. Larry Cormicle, Director of Undergraduate Construction Engineering Program, Iowa State University, will lead the simulation activity. Group discussion following activity will center on common problems associated with a Lean journey, both on the job and in the office.
Registration is Free – Registration Required (Last Day to Register 1/4/2019)
Coffee will be provided
Parking – Baker Group Parking Lot
presents
Join us for a Lean Coffee to learn and support each other in our Lean endeavors! Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required.
Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.
Attendance is free of charge.
Coffee will be provided
Parking – Baker Group Parking Lot
4601 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 1200
Arlington, VA 22203
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