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In the design and construction industry, we face the reality that 70 percent of projects are delivered late, over budget, or both. The traditional, siloed approach that teams have relied on for more than 50 years has failed to improve productivity or solve the challenges our people face daily. Lean project delivery is the solution. LCI and its members practice a better way to deliver projects t...
Read MoreUnder Sutter Health leadership, the Van Ness Campus project team, including SmithGroup, Rosendin Electric and Southland Industries, challenged each other to defy project norms that did not add value to Sutter's \"most ambitious - and unorthodox - Lean IPD job....
Read MoreArlington, Va. – Oct. 8, 2018 — Rebecca Snelling, JE Dunn Construction, will receive the Lean Construction Institute (LCI) Chairman’s Award for her contributions to LCI and the wider design and construction industry. Rebecca began her Lean journey 12 years ago by implementing Lean approaches while working for a construction company. Since then, she joined JE Dunn Construction and has made...
Read MoreArlington, Va. – Oct. 1, 2018 — The Lean Construction Institute (LCI) will honor Henry Nutt, Southland Industries, with the Pioneer Award at the 20th Annual LCI Congress for his thought-leadership in the design and construction industry. Henry Nutt, Sheet Metal General Superintendent, has invested a significant amount of time and energy in supporting LCI’s mission, goals and educational p...
Read Moreby Jim Cavaness, MMC Contractors West, Inc. in the American Subcontractors Association (ASA) educational journal, \"The Contractor's Compass.\" There are so many different variables and conditions of satisfaction that must be considered by all involved in trying to bring a project to successful fruition. As a specialty contractor, we have a unique perspective on the use of Lean constructi...
Read MoreThe LCI Chicago Community of Practice (CoP) recognized the late Bob Krier, a pioneer in the Chicago-land market in spreading the value of Lean construction, in November 2017 with the 1st Annual Bob Krier Award Night. Currently, the CoP core group is in the planning process for the 2nd Annual Bob Krier Award Night scheduled for November 15, 2018. The Chicago CoP felt that there was no better way...
Read MorePerfection is a baseline expectation when you purchase a product. But as experienced owners of building projects know, design and construction is an imperfect process with a variety of inherent uncertainties. Given that reality, what can project teams do to identify, anticipate and mitigate the conditions and factors that drive uncertainty, and how can owners adjust their expectations of project t...
Read MoreThe LCI Immersive Education Program launched its first e-Learning course, Introduction to Last Planner® System, to make practical Lean education more accessible to practitioners with busy schedules. The Introduction to Last Planner® System e-Learning course will issue a badge participants can add to email signatures and a certificate of completion to those who pass each knowledge check and th...
Read MoreFor the first time, the LCI Immersive Education Program launched an eLearning course, Introduction to Last Planner® System, that will award a certificate of completion and a badge eLearners can add to their email signature to show they are on the path to advancing their Lean journey. Go to LCI eLearning! E-Learners will only receive the downloadable badge and certificate if they complete th...
Read MoreLCI Communities of Practice (CoPs) are more than just meeting grounds located around the country comprised by people interested in learning more about Lean design and construction processes; LCI CoPs are an invaluable tool for achieving LCI’s goal of transforming the built environment through Lean implementation. When design and construction professionals come together at LCI CoP events, they...
Read Moreby Charles Pankow Foundation This guide is the result of a collaborative writing process between five IPD subject-matter experts that made up the guide’s core team. Much of the content found in this guide derived from the conversations that took place at the IPD Advisory Council workshop on May 2, 2017, at the Center for Education and Research in Construction of the Department of Construction...
Read MoreAhead of LCI's first e-Learning course debut of Introduction to Last Planner® System, the Last Planner® System Standard Work documents have been updated to better guide superintendents, foremen and project teams to effective Last Planner® System (LPS) implementation. Each of the 12 documents in the LPS Standard Work are written with the practitioner in mind and cover topics such as Perc...
Read MoreBy Ryan Seckinger, Principal on the Structures team at Walter P Moore About the expert: Ryan Seckinger is a Principal at Walter P Moore with over 16 years of structural engineering and team management experience. He leads the firm's Lean and integrated project delivery Lean initiatives and is located in the firm's Washington DC office. He is committed to leveraging collaborative worki...
Read MoreEach architect, engineer, owner and Lean professional at 2018 Lean in Design Forum will be at different stages of their Lean journey. Because of this, attendees have the opportunity to choose two out of the eight roundtable discussions that will benefit their current professional focus the most. The suggested level of practical experience needed to fully participate in each session – broken...
Read MoreAl Manshum, senior vice president of operations integration at Advocate Health Care, will take the stage as the 2018 Lean in Design Forum keynote speaker to share how he led the owner organization’s journey to Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and developed its first Master Contract using an Integrated Form of Agreement (IFOA). He will bring lessons learned from his previous 10-year backgrou...
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1400 North 14th Street, 12th Floor
Arlington, VA 22209
©2017 Lean Construction Institute. All Rights Reserved. · Threshold Technologies, Inc.
