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LCI Community of Practice

Northern California

Welcome to the LCI Northern California Community of Practice. Our community serves Lean practitioners from the Bay Area to the Central Valley. Currently we hold monthly events. Most events are virtual (held over zoom). Every third month we hold a single joint event at a more neutral location in Walnut Creek. We take the month of July off so that members of our CoP can enjoy some summer vacation time with family. We also take October off to enable folks to attend the National LCI Congress.

Our Impact

Our Purpose

As you know, the design and construction industry is transforming into a more collaborative culture through the application of Lean principles and integration project teams. Our goal is to create an environment where owners, architects, designers, contractors, trade partners, suppliers, academics and industry organizations can all come together to share, learn, and explore Lean principles and processes with a common goal of improving our industry and delivering value to our Owners and community.

Get Involved

Each November and February our Core Group meets to outline our monthly event topics that are inspired by LCI’s vision to transform the Built Environment through Lean Implementation and to ultimately increase stakeholder satisfaction and maximize project delivery value.

For any membership questions, or for general questions and/or comments, please contact CoP Leader, Felipe Engineer-Manriquez. If you have a topic that you would like to present, please contact CoP Vice/Events Leader, Tom Martin. For CoP Annual Sponsorship opportunities, please contact Sponsorship Lead, Juan Restrepo.

Core Group Members

Northern California CoP - 2025

Leader - Tom Martin, Sutter Health
Vice Leader - Glen Sullivan, McCarthy
Sponsorship Leader - Juan Restrepo, The Boldt Company
Education & Training Leader - Vic Ortiz, Ortiz Consulting
Marketing Leader - Kandice Lee, HED
Treasurer - Karen Conrod, Herrero Builders
Leader Emeritus - Felipe Engineer Manriquez, The Boldt Company
Member and Leader Emeritas - Dan Goodman, UCSF
Member / National Practice Team Core Group / Leader Emeritus - Angela Bowman, The Boldt Company
Member - Paz Arroyo, PhD, DPR Construction
Member - Bill Andrews, Buehler Engineering
Member - Jeff Long, JW Long Consulting
Member - Mark Napier, Southland Industries
Member - Kevin Ng, XL Construction
Member - Larry Summerfield, Buehler Engineering

Annual Sponsors

The Northern California CoP would like to thank our 2025 Sustaining Sponsors whose contribution help fund local events and workshops to promote awareness and adoption of Lean.

Northern California CoP Sustaining Sponsors - 2025

Field Crew Huddle

Explore the Field Crew Huddle website to see how community of practice members are contributing to a platform for sharing methods, improvements and lessons learned on project sites or shops. Want to be featured? Now accepting submissions.

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