The Lean Construction Blog is hosting a virtual conference on September 13-14, 2023. This is a Lean practitioner-led event and will showcase some of the best practices of applying Lean Construction in the field. This conference is designed to help people working in the construction site including superintendents, project managers, project engineers, and field crew learn Lean practices so that they can improve: the efficiency, effectiveness, and safety of their projects.
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We have a group of internationally-renowned Lean Construction practitioners who are leaders in the industry and in their respective companies. We will host a panel of superintendent as well as lean champions to share stories, compare best practices, and talk about problems that they had to overcome.
We will discuss some of the most important topics in the field of Lean Construction including: how to engage superintendents and foreman with Lean Construction, driving continuous improvement, how to develop capabilities, learning from Gemba, visual management, and making work ready for reliable flow.
The goal of this conference is to help the people working in the field acquire the knowledge and ideas that they can use immediately to improve their construction projects. This conference is aimed at helping both beginners as well as veterans enhance their skills and understanding of important Lean topics.
In this session, David will go over the core components of the Last Planner System. He will share the best practices of deploying the Last Planner System, explore pitfalls that teams fall into, and explain how you can make your LPS implementation more successful and sustainable.
Construction projects are what we call complex adaptive systems. As a result, small changes in initial conditions can generate large changes in the project’s outcome, thus resulting in a great amount of variability. In this session, Paulo and Paulo Jr. will illustrate how the use of the concept of buffers in the Last Planner® System at the renovation of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) created an environment that was able to avert the harm variability can generate.
A project starts long before it reaches the field and it doesn’t finish until the final milestone is reached. Many different people are involved in moving a project from “Planning” to “Doing”. Even with a “hand-off meeting” there is often a large information loss between Preconstruction and the field. The Last Planner System includes a milestone schedule. A schedule is good but is not a plan. Something more is needed. In this session, David will explain how Construction Plans fill the gap and improve flow in the overall construction planning process.
How can we succeed in applying Lean Construction in the field? What are the main hurdles and how to overcome them? How to get buy-in from management and workers out in the field? How has Lean Construction improved the way we build? This and more will be discussed in the superintendent panel, with real hands-on experiences and lessons learned from the field.
In a world where we are ideally trying to create the same level of flow as is achieved in manufacturing, constraints are our biggest nemesis. Why is it that constraints go unidentified until they hit us in the face? Are they tracked and bird-dogged to resolution prior to them impacting the project plan? What can we do to better find and manage these derailing impacts? In this session, Karen will talk about how teams can better manage and drive constraint resolution in order to reduce and/or eliminate their impact to our projects.
The constraints and the lookahead are vital in keeping reliable production in the Last Planner System. In this session, Anna and Cameron will do a deep dive into this practice, and discuss the importance of the weekly constraints meeting, the power of the constraint log, and share their best practices and lessons learned an ongoing institutional project.
Does Command and Control still work? Did it ever? Were you taught that to get the job done, you must use force? Were you taught that people are untrustworthy and will only do what they are forced to do? Were you taught the same thing about “subs”? Several of the old school project control tools were formulated to solve that problem. To force control. In truth, it was only the illusion of control. Lean Construction solves the real problem: how do we build a project as a cohesive team in the most respectful and efficient way? In this session, Boone will share his insights on the differences between old school command and control, outdated project control tools, and the new way of controlling a project with Lean.
The quality of our communication, the ability to communicate clearly, and the ability to clarify when communication is not clear can have a massive impact on the quality of the work that takes place. Communication skills are often not taught nor talked about in the trades which makes it even more important to focus on. In this session, Armando will talk about the importance of communication onsite, and how better and clearer communication can make a big difference.
In this session, Larry will discuss how the project started using Lean and Lean Construction during the early process of design. He will share lessons learned from trade partner onboarding techniques. He will also share their challenges and improvements with regard to the daily huddles, constraints, and Last Planner implementation.
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In this session, Spencer will share success stories and how people have benefited from using Takt in their construction projects. He will explain why you should be using Takt on your projects and the financial and personal outcomes from deploying it. He will also share a personal story of why Takt is so important to him and how it can help improve the design and construction industry.
Takt requires data at varying levels of detail. We need high-level detail to set the big-picture strategy. We need detailed quantities to understand production at an individual trade partner’s level. We need ways of describing progress through areas to generalize sequences and know if we’re improving over time. At the same time, measuring production and gathering all this data is expensive. In this session, Adam will discuss how Doxel and tools like it may be the answer to gather the data we need to move the industry forward and get much more quantitative with Takt planning in construction.
In this session Tim will explore mindsets and actions you can take to ensure your project team is continuously improving. Attendees will leave this session with a better understanding of how to create a continuous improvement culture on their projects and within their project teams.
How can we succeed in applying Lean Construction in the field? What are the main hurdles and how to overcome them? How to get buy-in from management and workers out in the field? How has Lean Construction improved the way we build? This and more will be discussed in the Project Managers panel, with real hands-on experiences and lessons learned from the field.
The construction sector has a big impact on our society but compared with other industries, the productivity has been much lower historically. Traditional project management and Lean management are two approaches for running projects. In this session, Manuel will present the similarities and differences between the two approaches, and help you understand the relationship and use cases.
In this session, Juan Felipe Pons will share examples of how to apply 5S and Visual Management in construction projects. He will go in-depth on why you should use these practices and how they can help your projects achieve flow and more predictable production.
In this session, Michael will directly address the struggles most lean initiatives have in the construction industry. He will also provide a strategy that can overcome the push-back while providing actions taken to move lean forward.
As lean builders, we focus on eliminating waste and improving systems but are we looking in the right place? How often is a root cause we've identified just an effect of the problem but not the cause? This session attempts to look at the "whole" picture of a project and how each outcome is the result of the information being put into the system. Justin will discuss some common bias such as fundamental attribution error, planning fallacy, and confirmation bias and how identifying and overcoming those bias can help us become better problem solvers
O’Shea has been learning and developing Lean since 2017 and structuring Lean into their projects since early 2020. O’Shea believes that Lean emerges from a project culture of highly engaged people solving problems continuously. In this session, Nick will take you through O’Shea’s Lean journey and explain the structure behind their current production system. He will also discuss investments, actions, lessons learned, and development that has led to Lean success.
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The Lean Construction Blog Conferences are one of my favorite ways to connect with others working to improve project delivery. I personally loved how the participants engaged in live Q&A after each set of themed sessions and continuously interacted throughout the entire proceeding. People were still talking about the learnings months later. I highly recommend attending these events to keep your skills growing for your teams.
In 2020 we saw many conferences and events restructured due to the need for a virtual platform. In my opinion, the Lean Construction in the Field Conderence in September did a great job organizing and planning for a 100% live event. Watching and hearing from the subject matter experts from around the world allowed for real time feedback, questions and answers. I look forward to the upcoming European Lean Construction Conference.
The team at Lean Construction Blog understand how to facilitate a virtual conference. As a speaker, we were able to engage with attendees, receive feed back, and answer questions in real time. This conference provided me with key take aways that I can use to improve workflow on my construction projects. Their conferences are highly interactive, highly engaging, and brought together some of the leading experts in the industry.
