Lean Construction Institute ( LCI ) - Ireland Community of Practice ( CoP ) Launch

Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Time: 7:30 PM to 9:15 PM

Location: Glenroyal Hotel Maynooth, Co. Kildare

Agenda

7.40 Introduction – Logistics ( John French )

7.50 Owners Perspective ( Joe Foley )

8.00 Official Launch of LCI Ireland CoP ( John Pemberton - LCI Board )

8.20 How CoP’s Mould the Lean Journey in New England Region ( Nick Masci )

8.40 What is Lean, & Ireland Current State (Paul Ebbs, Dr Arlene Egan, Kevin White )

9.00 Owners/General Contractors/Trades/Designers Perspective ( All )

9.00 Questionnaire ( All )

9.15 Close ( All )

Purpose

The purpose of the event is to raise awareness of Lean Principles in the Irish Architectural, Engineering & Construction (AEC) Industry and demonstrate how we can implement Lean as a collective group (CoP)

through knowledge sharing, innovation through research and deep collaboration between the 4 main sectors – Owners, Designers, Contractors and Trades.

Connections

Keep in touch with us through our LinkedIn

. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Lean-Construction-Ireland-4332330/about

LCI Home Page

http://www.leanconstruction.org/

LCI UK Home Page

http://leanconstruction.org.uk/events

Core Team

Lean Construction Ireland Core Group Corporate Members include John French (Intel); Kevin White (Jones Engineering); Paul Sexton (SCEG Ltd); Raymond Turner (Construction Innovation Lab); and Paul Ebbs (PhathomHQ).

Mission of LCI:

• The mission of the Lean Construction Institute is to transform design and construction through new approaches to project design and delivery. Lean theory, principles and techniques, taken together, provide the foundation for a different, more collaborative, and more effective form of project management. Lean design and construction represents a transformational way to design and build capital facilities. The Lean approach generates significant improvements in schedule with dramatically reduced waste, particularly on complex, uncertain and quick projects.

• Five Major Focus Areas or Value Indicators Guiding our Efforts Include: • Grow and sustain members

Develop knowledge Create industry capacity Develop collaboration & distribution channels Create industry demand and cultivate relationships with other key associations

• The purpose of the Lean Construction Institute is to act as the catalyst to transform the industry to deliver projects using a lean operating system centered on a common language, fundamental principles and basic practices.

Purpose of an LCI Community of Practice

• LCI believe that deep application of lean principles improves the definition of needs, design, construction, and operation of capital facilities. We also believe that application of lean principles to run the day-to-day operation of any organization improves the ability of the organization and its employees to deliver better services to their customers.

• To apply lean principles, we must have conversations that include all members of the industry. We have discovered that holding meetings to share what we have learned with representatives of the Owner, Designer, Contractor and Trade supply chain in a given region accelerates the benefits to the people and the projects in that region. As processes continue to improve, these too are shared to advance the benefits to companies and projects. A Community of Practice (CoP) therefore accelerates and expands improvements to facilities, projects and companies in its geographic area.

• The CoP helps the supply chain in a region make this new way of doing business the “new common sense”. It enables the supply chain to learn rapidly and to continue to improve the value delivered to customers of capital projects, as well as the value to all who use the facility in the future.

Copyright LCI CoP FORMATION GUIDELINESLCI Communities of Practice (CoP) March, 2014