2025 LCI Engineering Design Award Announcement
Congratulations to Sutter Health and Team!
The Lean Construction Institute (LCI) is pleased to recognize the awardee of the third annual LCI Engineering Design Award:
Sutter Health
2506 Samaritan Court, San Jose, CA
- Sutter Health – Project Owner
- Boulder Associates
- Skanska
- Prime Electric
- Standard Drywall
About the Winning Project
The project was a tenant improvement in a three-story, 69,000-SF medical office building. The new clinic and surgery center at 2506 Samaritan Court allows Sutter Health to provide greater access to patient care in the South Bay and deliver affordable surgery options to the area.
The team used an integrated form of agreement (IFOA), which enabled the team to collaborate on initiatives including:
- Prefabrication and modularization planned early in the design phase
- Intentional standardization across all room types for consistency from construction through operational use
- Virtual punch list workflow conducted during design
Delivered three months ahead of schedule at a cost savings of almost $3M, this project had no lost time incidents.
About the Award
The Lean Construction Institute (LCI) Engineering Design Award recognizes delivering excellence in fit for use and engineering design while advancing the industry through collaborative Lean Project Delivery. The purpose of this award is to encourage Lean in Design and recognize the architects, engineers, designers, clients and constructors who work together to improve the design and construction process and produce design excellence in the built environment.
Submissions were scored by factor:
- Generation of Value Fit for Use (50%)
- How Lean tenets were used to achieve the final project (50%)
- Respect for People
- Optimize the Whole
- Continuous Improvement
- Removal of Waste
- Process/Flow
- Cost and Schedule Approach
Thank you to the 2025 LCI Design Award Planning Team Members and Engineering Design Award Jury Committee for their dedicated work:
2025 LCI Design Award Planning Team Members: Bernita Beikmann, HKS, Inc.; Stan Chiu, HDR; Robert Johnson, SSOE; Romano Nickerson, Boulder Associates; Neelanjana Sen, Stantec; Andrea Sponsel, HKS, Inc.; Annmarie Thurnquist, Jacobs
2025 Engineering Design Award Jury Facilitators: David Johnson, SSOE, and Annmarie Thurnquist, Jacobs
2025 Engineering Design Award Jury Committee: Rebecca Boyd, Jedson Engineering; Amanda Karling, Demain; Hal Plaag, Gresham Smith
Honoring the Awardees at the 2025 LCI Congress
LCI received many impressive submissions and would like to extend our appreciation to all those who submitted.
Awardees will be recognized on Thursday, October 23, at the 2025 LCI Congress Award Ceremony in Arlington, TX!