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Eric Lusis
With over 25 years in the AEC industry and a Lean Construction Institute certified Improved Instructor, Eric’s passion is helping teams to make their work easier and provide outstanding results. Eric is an experienced facilitator and Lean coach who has worked with countless design and construction groups to develop high performing teams and projects. Specific efforts include project alignment, team partnering, validation and design planning, construction planning and execution, thru asset activation and closeout. He is also a CM-Lean Approved Instructor with the Associated General Contractors of America.
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Building an internal lean infrastructure to scale up lean deployment in a company with over 10,000 employees
WasteWalk Observations have led to the identification of over $300MM worth of estimated and $52MM of actual net cost savings/added value on over 300 projects and yards. 2024 saw the highest employee engagement in WasteWalks since introducing them as a Building Smarter best practice in 2022.
What is Just-In-Time?
Imagine a world where materials and information appear just as you need them and are supplied in the correct sequence and quantity according to customer demand. No storage, no additional transportation or motion to manage.
Applying JIT in the AEC Industry
Unlike manufacturing, the AEC industry has so many more participants and variables which can make practicing JIT extremely difficult, although it is still achievable with deliberate effort.
PDCA is How We Improve the Industry
Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) problem-solving methodology is at the heart of lean. Lean thinking is about making tomorrow better than today and requires a dynamic approach of combining learning with action – the PDCA cycle is how we practice this.
PDCA Lessons Learned
Practicing scientific methodology can sound foreign or like something for academics and not what we do as owners, designers or builders. To help with this perspective, start by caring about yourself and the stakeholders around you.