Program Overview

This track showcases best practices for developing Lean skills and a Lean mindset. It features topics and stories to elevate Lean principles and collaborative communication while covering strategies to gain buy-in on Lean initiatives. You’ll learn the latest Lean tactics to add value to individuals, teams, and projects, along with best practices for scaling Lean within your team or organization. And you’ll hear first-hand from experts sharing their successes, setbacks, and solutions.

Through sessions and Live Labs, engage on topics including:

• How to create high performing teams and support your people for project success.
• How to bring together project partners, including owners, designers, general contractors, and trade partners, at project onset.
• Metrics that measure improvements derived from Lean practices.
• Best practices for developing the Lean mindset within your team or organization.
• Strategies and approaches for developing Lean leaders and inspiring others to start their journey.
• Tools and processes that add value and drive improvements—Onboarding, Team Health Assessments, Conditions of Satisfaction, Retrospectives, Scrum, and more.

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Engage on lessons learned and best practices for collaborative design and preconstruction efforts that deliver value to all project stakeholders.

Through sessions and Live Labs, dive into:

• Stories of implementing and measuring Lean innovation in the design space.
• How Lean tactics such as Target Value Delivery and Conditions of Satisfaction influence the overall design process.
• How design can drive Lean delivery during the preconstruction process and bring in relevant parties from conception to closeout.
• How to ground teams in the fundamentals of Lean delivery.
• How the design community can support better flow in the field.
• How design and preconstruction leaders can support a learning culture on projects and in the office.
• Tools and processes that add value and drive improvements—Big Room, Target Value Delivery, CBA, Concurrent Engineering, P3, and more.

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This track focuses on processes and tools that drive continuous improvement and better outcomes on projects.

Gain actionable Lean tools and concepts in areas including:

• Insights on leveraging prefabrication and industrialized construction to deliver more value to clients and project teams.
• How to implement BIM Modeling and Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) with a Lean mindset.
• How to leverage technology to improve planning and collaboration.
• Tools and processes that add value and drive improvements—Big Room, Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA), and more.

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Learn how Lean practices are improving efficiency, productivity, and safety on the jobsite.

Topics covered in sessions and Live Labs include:

• How a Lean program can develop the next generation of field leaders.
• Innovative practices that can optimize production, decrease waste, and promote safe practices.
• How all stakeholders (the design community, general contractors, owners, trade partners, and consultants) can influence Lean practices in the field to deliver better results.
• How to get multiple trade partners to row in the same direction and at the same pace.
• How to support a learning mindset in the field.
• How to leverage some or all aspects of the Last Planner System®: Milestones, Constraints, PPC, Variance, Making Work Ready, and more.
• How a Lean mindset and creating a culture of respect for people are increasing team morale and improving workflow.
• Tools and processes that add value and drive improvements—Last Planner System®, Takt Time, 5S, Daily Huddles, Gemba Walks, A3 Thinking, Just In Time Delivery, Problem Solving, Visual Controls, and more.

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In one of our two new Journey to Mastery Tracks, take a deep dive into Lean Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). Continue your journey to mastery of Lean tools and concepts with these advanced sessions.

Immerse yourself in topics including:

• Overview/Contract
• Partner Selection and Onboarding
• Co-location/Big Room Concept and Visual Management
• Last Planner System® (including Daily Huddles)
• Target Value Delivery
• Building a Cost Model, Set-based Design, and How to Settle on a Target Value

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In one of our two new Journey to Mastery Tracks, take a deep dive into Enterprise-Wide Lean Transformation. Continue your journey to mastery of Lean tools and concepts with these advanced sessions.

Immerse yourself in topics covering:

• Aligning leadership
• Are We There Yet?
• Measuring the Data and Using It
• Lessons Learned, Celebrate the Wins (Milestones) and the Losses (Roadblocks), and Continuous Improvement

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Geared towards advanced practitioners, these four hands-on sessions feature exceptional facilitators and open discussions among participants. Learn, collaborate, and develop ideas with others experiencing similar challenges. You’ll gain new knowledge from the expertise, perspectives, and experience of everyone in the room.

Sessions include:

• STCKY Safety & Lean Construction Are Better Together (Two Sessions): The New View of safety, often referred to as “STCKY (Stuff That Can Kill You) Safety” in the construction industry, aligns closely with Lean design and construction principles and practices. Brasfield & Gorrie and Sundt Construction have both adopted lean construction and STCKY Safety. Join a double session for an open exploration of the approach, its successful adoption, and the results possible.
• Solving the Workforce Crisis Starts by Treating All Workers As Humans (Two Sessions)The employment crisis in the construction industry, with people leaving at seven times the rate of new entrants, is a complex issue influenced by various interconnected factors. Join a robust discussion of how these conditions interact and possible levers to pull to turn the situation around.

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Fundamental

• LCI Introduction to Lean Project Delivery
• LCI Last Planner System® in Design
• LCI Lean in the Design Phase

Intermediate

• Industrialized Construction – A New Horizon for Lean Construction – Fundamentals
• LCI Target Value Delivery Module 1: Learning the Fundamentals (New!)

 Intermediate/Experienced

• Demystifying the IPD Contract
• Do What Matters Most (New!)
• How to Build a Lean Culture from the Ground Up for Specialty Trade Contractors
• LCI 5S in Lean Construction
• LCI Influencing Up for Lean Transformation Within Your Organization
• LCI Kaizen Events – Why, What and How
• LCI Ready Set Go Scrum
• LCI Target Value Delivery Module 3: Organizing for Flow & Efficiency (New!)
• Supercharge Your Influence as a Lean Champion (New!)

Fundamental

• LCI Introduction to Last Planner System®
• LCI Introduction to Lean Project Delivery

Intermediate

• A3: Root Cause Problem-Solving
• LCI Effective Big Room
• The Visual Decision Plotter ™

Intermediate/Experienced

• Getting Decisions That Stick in Design & Construction (NEW)
• Industrialized Construction – A New Horizon for Lean Construction
• LCI Bunches of Coaches: Coaching Coaches
• LCI Introduction to Lean Deployment Planning
• LCI Intermediate Last Planner System® for Design Practical Application
• LCI Target Value Delivery Module 2: Setting the Stage for Success (New!)
• LCI Target Value Delivery Module 4: Modeling for Predictable Outcomes (New!)
• Using Shared Visualization Skills for More Robust Constraint
• The Flow State Experience (New!)

Intermediate

• Creating, Managing & Sustaining a Lean Organization
• LCI Intermediate Last Planner System®: Practical Application

Intermediate/Experienced

• Creating a Culture of Accountability
• Takt Planning Workshop and Simulation (New!)

Hudson’s, a historic Detroit department store, broke ground in 1891 and closed its doors in 1983. Before then, it underwent 12 expansions, reaching a height of 25 stories and covering an entire city block. Bedrock saw an opportunity to restore the grandeur to Woodward Avenue’s 1200 block. The project, currently under construction and led by Barton Malow, includes 1.5 million square feet of office, retail, food and beverage, hotel, residential, event and meeting, parking, and activated open spaces designed by world famous architect SHoP Architects and local Architect of Record Hamilton Anderson Architects. Enjoy this fascinating tour of a historic site being brought back to life.

ProMedica Toledo Hospital’s 756,600-square-foot (70,290-square-meter), 13-story, 309-bed patient tower, needed to minimize waste, maximize efficiency, optimize functional performance, and provide the best possible patient experience in a patient-centered care environment. To fulfill ProMedica’s vision, HKS’ design and research teams worked collaboratively in a parametric-applied research project that informed the unit design to increase caregiver efficiency and time at bedside. The Gemba Walk will cover multiple floors and units of the ProMedica Generations of Care tower.

As customers have pushed to lower project costs and shorten delivery schedules, pre-fabrication operations have become a must in the industry. Superior Electric has invested time, effort, and capital to transfer construction labor hours from the field environment and put them into a controlled space where work is preformed more safely, and productivity is higher. These conditions allow the company to better control schedule, reduce installation cost, reduce material waste, and deliver a quality product to customers. Explore pre-fab shop operations on this valuable tour.

This project consists of the US point of Entry facilities associated with the new Gordie Howe International Bridge, the new crossing between the United States and Canada. The bridge spans the Detroit River. Although this project does not include the cable-stayed bridge itself, there will be a tour up the bridge tower on the Detroit side, as well as of buildings including toll gates, customs and immigration, inspection, and more.