2024 Congress Encore Presentations

Los Angeles & Orange County Community of Practice

 

Program Overview:

  • 7:30am – Breakfast and Networking
  • 8:00am – Opening Remarks / Keynote Presentation
  • 8:30am - What is Target Value Delivery (TVD)?
  • 9:15am - Living Big - Lessons and Life in a Successful Big Room
  • 10:00am – Networking Coffee Break
  • 10:15am - Mock-ups for Team Building, Communication, and Quality
  • 11:00am - Streamlining Field Communication: Daily Huddles in Trades
  • 11:45am – Closing Remarks & Plus/Delta
  • Noon – Ajourn (and Additional Networking Time) 

8:30am - What is Target Value Delivery (TVD)?
 
Presentation TeamStan Chiu, HDR | Katie Wells, Brasfield & Gorrie

 

Target Value Design steers design to a target project cost with rapid feedback and a focus on value. There are also a lot of misconceptions, and it can often devolve into the same Value Engineering (VE) cycle project teams try to avoid. This presentation would help clarify what TVD is and what TVD is not.


9:15am - Living Big - Lessons and Life in a Successful Big Room
 
Presentation Team: Diane Anglin, Carta Advisors | Brad White, Gensler | Stan Chiu, HDR | Jenny Han, Boldt

 

The Big Room environment is highly effective for promoting collaboration and the integration of teams. This live lab will demonstrate how to implement a few approaches that have been effective in some recent Big Room experiences. Come and see a Live Lab set up with demonstrations on how the setup of the workspace can affect the level of quality in the work, get the right people in the room at the right times, visual management tools, creating a safe and open culture, and the importance of in-person participation. 

Key Takeaways :
  1. Why does in-person collaboration matter?
  2. “Getting the right people on the bus” at the right stops
  3. Visuals - Low-Fi | High-Fi 
  4. Everyone “show up” Physically, culturally and mentally.

10:15am - Mock-ups for Team Building, Communication, and Quality
 
Presentation Team: Rudy Perez, Cedars Sinai | Nick Farano, Rudolph and Sletten, Inc | Kevin Spady, HDR | Tom Huberty, Strategic Building Services

 

The Cedars Sinai Marina Del Rey Replacement Hospital Project extensively used in wall mockups to engage the key project stakeholders in an open dialogue to determine requirements and expectations.  Weekly meetings were held until the Owner, Architect, Engineers, General Contractor, Subcontractors, Inspector of Record, and OSHPD fully understood the project plan and goals.  There is no equivalent in the ability to communicate project requirements and to prove constructability than a physical demonstration.  In addition, the weekly interaction of all of the project players let the team members interact with each other in a low-pressure environment prior to the construction in the field starting.  This allowed time for important relationships to develop and for people to learn how other team members work.  This early investment in team building and communication paid huge dividends when construction began in the field.  This process truly embodied the mantra that, “you have to go slow in order to go fast”.  It absolutely improved the flow of the project schedule by greatly reducing failed inspections, improved safety by being able to more easily identify potential hazards when constructing the mockups, improved quality by delivering exactly what the owner had previously seen and approved and eliminated costly rework.  This presentation will go through how the project team implemented this process from start to finish.

 

11:00am - Streamlining Field Communication: Daily Huddles in Trades

Presentation Team: Michael Villar, Nevell Group | Blake Tormey, KHS&S | Henry Nutt, Southland Industries
 
The Daily Huddle is one of the most powerful methods to inform, educate, and communicate to a broad and diverse team. For contractors, our workforce is inherently transient. It is very rare to have consistent crews from one month to the next. The Daily Huddle is the place where standards, Lean education, safety moments, and production goals can be communicated consistently and in a standard way that benefits the entire crew.