Congress Delivers Value to the Design Community
Get the insider view of advanced industry best practices while networking with your peers, general contractors, trade partners, and clients. LCI Congress is where professionals from across the design and implementation spectrum come together to share ideas, challenges, and breakthroughs—and advance Lean practices. As a member of this community, you will leave San Diego with the latest know-how, ideas, and project planning tools to conceive and implement transformative design.
- See what your peers are doing and be inspired
- Find out how to drive a Lean-oriented culture shift among your leaders and clients with a metrics-driven approach
- Get tips, tools, and project management approaches to create and execute design that adds value
- Discover how you can bridge the gap from design to building
- Get up to speed on new and innovative design and implementation technologies
- Get the owner perspective on design and implementation needs and challenges

“Our designs and our design processes are better when we focus on the things that bring value and remove waste. I come to Congress to hear the latest stories and lessons learned from my peers on Lean in Design and Implementation. We can all benefit from sharing our stories and continuously improving our industry.”
Andrea Sponsel, Vice President and Process Improvement Strategies Leader, HKS
Program highlights geared towards your needs
The Congress program includes actionable content across functions, and that depth and breadth of content is key to your success. Stay tuned for highlights of sessions and Live Labs geared toward the design and implementation community.
Who attends from the design community?
Design and implementation specialists, architects, designers, and engineers from a wide range of settings, spanning large organizations to individual practices, attend Congress every year to bring back tools that enrich their work.
View last year’s design and implementation community attendees
2024 Design Community Attendees
- ACCO Engineered Systems
- Affiliated Engineers Inc
- Baisch Engineering
- Barge Design Solutions
- Bostwick Design Partnership
- Boulder Associates
- Buehler
- Burns & McDonnell
- CRB Builders LLC
- Cuningham Group Architecture
- DBM Vircon
- Degenkolb Engineers
- Devenney Group
- DLR Group
- Dunham
- DWL Architects
- EwingCole
- Farnsworth Group
- Fennick McCredie Architecture
- Fluor
- Freese and Nichols
- Functional Energy Solutions LLC
- Genesis AEC
- Gensler
- Hatzel & Buehler
- HDR Inc
- HED
- HGA
- HKS, Inc
- HMC Architects
- Hoefer Welker
- Hollis and Miller Architects
- Jacobs
- Jedson Engineering
- Journey Group
- Kimley-Horn and Associates
- Maloney Group
- Mazzetti
- MB BIM Solutions
- Myamo
- NBBJ
- Omni Design Inc.
- Page Southerland Page Inc
- Perkins+Will
- PIMSHQ | ESS,LLC
- Reimagine Architects
- Riley Projects
- Ruby+Associates Inc
- Saam Architecture
- Sazan Group
- SmithGroup
- SSOE Group
- Stantec
- Taylor Design
- Unity Design Studio
- ValSource
- Weft Strategies
- Windsor Engineers
- WSP Finland
- Woodward Design+Build
- WSP USA Buildings Inc
2023 Design Community Attendees
- Affiliated Engineers
- Anderson Mikos Architects, Ltd.
- Andy J. Egan Company
- Array Architects
- Bard, Rao and Athanas Consulting
- Engineers
- Barge Design Solutions
- Barr Engineering Company
- BDA Architects
- BLOX
- Bostwick Design Partnership
- Boulder Associates
- BSI Engineering
- Canam Group Inc.
- CannonDesign
- Carlson Design Group
- CASAIS, Engenharia E Construcao, S.A.
- CRB Builders LLC
- Cunningham
- Degenkolb Engineers
- Devenney Group
- Dunham
- EwingCole
- Fennick McCredie Architecture
- First Energy
- Genesis AEC
- Gensler
- Ghafari Associates
- Gresham Smith and Partners
- Hargrove Engineers
- Hasenstab Architects
- HDR Architecture, Inc.
- HGA
- HKS, Inc
- HMC Architects
- Hobbs + Black Architects
- HOK Inc
- Integrated Project Services LLC
- Jacobs
- Jedson Engineering
- KMD Architects
- LaBella Associates
- Lerdahl
- McKenney’s Inc
- NBBJ
- NuScale Power
- Odisha Works Department
- OMA
- Page Southerland Page Inc
- Populous
- Ruby+Associates Inc
- Sazan Group
- Senneca Holdings
- SmithGroup
- SRG Partnership
- SSOE Group
- SSR
- Stantec
- START Architecture
- Synchro
- THP
- Wightman