Project Controls and Lean Culture (New York State CoP)
April 20, 2022 @ 5:00 pm – 7:15 pm
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Clarkson University graduate students will present project delivery solutions to a mock project using Lean tools and processes that address the following problem statement set by the New York State CoP Leader:
How do leading + lagging controls impact Lean culture?
Students will present their draft solutions for feedback and discussion with the CoP. Comments will be integrated into their final submission due April 27th.
Speakers:
- Sam Spata, Adjunct Professor, Clarkson University
- Elizabeth Brown, Clarkson University graduate student
- Michael Mieczkowski, Clarkson University graduate student
- Juila Nicotra, Clarkson University graduate student
- Aidan Kooy, Clarkson University graduate student
FPI Mechanical Fabrication Facility Tour (New York State CoP)
March 3, 2022 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
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Join us for a tour of FPI Mechanical’s fabrication facility and to learn more about the challenges and benefits of offsite manufacturing on their projects.
FPI Mechanical will be providing light refreshments.
Supply Chain Challenge and Solutions (New York State CoP)
January 25, 2022 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
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Struggling with Supply Chain issues? Long lead times? Escalating costs? We all are. Join us Jan 25th for a virtual conversation/discussion. Yes, we’ll commiserate, but more importantly we’ll all share what we are doing to work through and around these issues, AND gain a few new ideas.
The format for our session is simple. Show up, we build a list of things we want to talk about, select the 3-4 most common topics, break into small groups and talk about them.
Just one prerequisite: you have a project to deliver. (A&E’s are welcome too, are you having to make substitutions or design to alternate means & methods?)
Holiday Party Featuring... Maximizing the Productivity of the Trades via Optimized Construction Flow (OCF) (New York State CoP)
December 14, 2021 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
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Come join the New York State Lean Construction Institute Community of Practice for a fun filled night of networking and learning. We will begin the evening by networking with drinks (cash bar) and appetizers (provided) follow by a presentation that was featured at the LCI National Congress in October of 2021. Following the presentation there will be a cash bar mixer for all attendees to continue networking. This event is limited to the first 50 people to sign up. Don’t wait around to register or you will miss out on the opportunity to spend this holiday evening networking and learning with your fellow NY State Lean Construction Practitioners!
Feature Presentation:
Maximizing the Productivity of the Trades via Optimized Construction Flow (OCF):
Challenge your project execution strategy with OCF. You may be asking yourself……What is OCF? OCF stands for Optimized Construction Flow. It’s not only a methodology but it’s a way of “project execution” life. The 7 Principles of OCF include employing strategic integration and planning, target tactical planning, collaborative process, constraint management, maximizing pre-fabrication, controlling installation start, and ensuring installation flow. Our presenters based this approach on research presented at IGLC and executed with an overall mission to reduce cycle time by 50% on average without adding overtime or more resources. They had to develop an approach that challenged the entire supply chain of the project to ‘bow to the constraint’ of trade resources, while also meeting our lofty production demands. Planning is not the Key! It’s EVERYTHING…more importantly it’s the strategic planning BEFORE the pull planning. This means that well before the Last Planner’s attend their first pull plan the supply chain must prepare all the critical inputs to ensure their success. Trade Productivity is a primary focus of the OCF. One of the driving tenants is not just to improve the efficiency of the workflow and productivity but that overall project durations would be cut which would translate to increased PROFITS by using the core capabilities of our trade partners! Can you imagine more than 250 projects being OPTIMIZED to remove over 50% of the waste?
Target Value Delivery (New York State CoP)
November 9, 2021 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
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Staying within the allowable budget and ensuring the team’s innovation decreases waste and increases value to the customer are attributes of successful project delivery and can be achieved through Target Value Delivery (TVD). TVD is a disciplined management practice with several phases (Business Case Planning, Validation, Value Delivery and Value Post Construction) meant to be applied holistically to obtain maximum value. The phases of TVD can be supplemented by core components like team organization, Big Room, project planning, cost modeling, continuous estimating and conceptual design.
Start your journey towards mastering each of the TVD phases and all of the core components through simulation, group discussion and step-by-step guidance in the 8-hour Target Value Delivery education course to align your project deliverables with customer-defined value.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe attributes of a team culture required to support TVD.
- Understand how to align project deliverables with customer-defined value.
- Define the major phases in the TVD process and how they relate.
- Gain first-hand experience with the types of challenges and decisions which typically arise in TVD.
Presenter:
Julie Glassmeyer, Glassmeyer Construction Consulting & Coaching, LLC (G3C)
Recommended Reading:
Target Value Delivery: Practitioner Guidebook to Implementation
This course is registered with AIA CES for 7 LU credits
Lunch and coffee will be provided
6 Lean Leadership Actions (New York State CoP)
September 16, 2021 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
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“Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, 'Look, you’ll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.' ”
—Shigeo Shingo, author of the Toyota Production System
The purpose of this NY State LCI Event is to enlighten and encourage the Lean Leaders throughout our industry to “Think Lean” and “Do Lean” to help their companies deliver greater value to their customers. To successfully implement and maintain Lean in companies, it requires Lean Leaders! Everyone is a leader. All of us lead at least one person – ourselves. Many of us, naturally or by designation, lead other people. The session will present six key concepts for Lean Leaders to help them “Do Lean”.
Take Aways:
- Knowing Why and What - key to success
- Don’t do Lean to Workers
- Lean Basics before Technology
- The importance of GO & SEE
- Managing to Lean Priorities
- No Problem is Problem
A Lean "Brew" (New York State CoP)
May 11, 2021 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
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Join us for a Lean "Brew." Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our construction community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned. Share your experience with Lean Project Delivery, or come ask how to get started. No previous Lean experience is required. And this being a "brew", you are welcome to attend with a beverage your choice (adult or otherwise!)
Our facilitator is Brian Winningham, Owner/Coach at Field Driven Lean, LLC. Brian has more than 20 years industry experience, and is the master at facilitating virtual discussion and planning sessions.
Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed.
Come as you are and be ready to learn.
A Lean Brew - CoPs Joint Event (Southern New England / DC Metro / New York State CoP)
July 14, 2020 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
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Join Lean practitioners from several communities of practice in the Northeast region for a Lean Brew. We are bringing together three Communities of Practice from different regions to support and learn from one another. Participants from a take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required.This is going to be an interactive session and joining from your mobile device may be frustrating. For that reason, we are only allowing attendees to join from your computer. We also ask that everyone #turnyourcameraon! It will enrich the experience for all participants.
Facilitator: Brian Winningham, Field Driven Lean
The Last Planner System® – Out of the Classroom and Into the Field (New York State CoP)
June 2, 2020 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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Most “classes” on The Last Planner System® describe the what and why, and include a simulation…but we are left with the question: How do I actually implement this on my project? The focus of this session is answering that question.
Speaker:
Kyle Price has 15 years construction industry experience managing teams executing >50 IPD/IFOA Projects combined value >$1 Billion. Kyle’s experience covers a wide range of industries including commercial, high-rise, health care, bio- laboratory, higher education, and high-tech semiconductor construction projects. Kyle is passionate about providing maximum value to the customer by engaging and empowering his project team to drive continuous improvement and eliminate waste.
Registration Fee - $10.00
Target Value Delivery: Global Foundries "Real World" Success (New York State CoP)
April 23, 2020 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
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Case Study describing success in delivering ~$500M scope, 3 yr multi-faceted program on schedule and within 1% of the target value.
Speakers:
Dean Jones is Deputy Director of Facility Design and Construction at GlobalFoundries, responsible for Basebuild and MEP construction. He is Clarkson University graduate with 25 years Construction Management experience in leadership roles as a CM and now as an Owner. Instrumental in the Lean Construction transformation at GlobalFoundries, Dean excels in the application/implementation of Last Planner and Construction team collaboration.
Ed Haldeman, PMP is the Eastern NY Business Manager and Project Executive at JW Danforth. A graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he began his career as an IT project manager, transitioning to Construction Management 8 years ago. Ed built the Project Controls foundation for GlobalFoundries construction and is now a member of the executive team leading transformation of JW Danforth's Eastern NY operations.
Steve Thompson is Sr. Director of Facility Design and Construction GlobalFoundries. Old enough to have mastered the slide rule and typewriter, he is a University of California, Berkeley grad with 40 years of experience in the Semiconductor Industry. Steve spent his first 20 years in the science and manufacturing of computer chips, and is now a thought leader in Construction Program Planning & Integration with a keen focus on what brings value to the customer.
Learning Objectives:
- Conduct project reviews using Conditions of Satisfaction to define value propositions and objectives for occupant well-being.
- Develop Design solutions using Target Value Delivery process with continuous cost-modeling to enable stakeholder collaboration in selecting building systems that support occupant needs.
- Conduct Construction Administration using tools and behaviors that support the owner's occupancy goals
- Conduct Construction Administration using tools and behaviors that support the owner's occupancy goals
Registration is Free. Capacity is Limited
POSTPONED - Target Value Delivery (New York State CoP)
March 24, 2020 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
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Staying within the allowable budget and ensuring the team’s innovation decreases waste and increases value to the customer are attributes of successful project delivery and can be achieved through Target Value Delivery (TVD). TVD is a disciplined management practice with several phases (Business Case Planning, Validation, Value Delivery and Value Post Construction) meant to be applied holistically to obtain maximum value. The phases of TVD can be supplemented by core components like team organization, Big Room, project planning, cost modeling, continuous estimating and conceptual design.
Start your journey towards mastering each of the TVD phases and all of the core components through simulation, group discussion and step-by-step guidance in the 8-hour Target Value Delivery education course to align your project deliverables with customer-defined value.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe attributes of a team culture required to support TVD.
- Understand how to align project deliverables with customer-defined value.
- Define the major phases in the TVD process and how they relate.
- Gain first-hand experience with the types of challenges and decisions which typically arise in TVD.
Presenter:
Julie Glassmeyer, Glassmeyer Construction Consulting & Coaching, LLC (G3C)
Recommended Reading:
Target Value Delivery: Practitioner Guidebook to Implementation
This course is registered with AIA CES for 7 LU credits
Lunch and coffee will be provided
Lean Brew - (New York State CoP)
February 25, 2020 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
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Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.
Registration Fee: $10.00
Registration includes pizza and two drink tickets.
