October 8, 2026
Last Chance to Join Us for LCI Congress 2026!
The 28th Annual LCI Congress is almost here! Register now to join more than 1,600 Lean professionals in Atlanta, October 12–16, for practical learning, fresh ideas, and opportunities to connect with peers from across the industry.
Congress Session Spotlight: From Algorithm to Assembly
How can AI support Lean project delivery without losing the human collaboration at the center of the work?
At LCI Congress, Bernita Beikmann and Anthony Montalto of HKS will explore how AI and computational design can help teams identify constraints earlier, improve decision-making, protect flow, and strengthen whole-team performance from design through construction.
Make even more of your time in Atlanta by adding Learning Day courses on October 13 or Gemba Day site visits on October 16 to your Congress experience. The October 12 Golf Tournament is already sold out!
Still Time to Shape LCI Weekly
What do you want more of? What’s missing? Please take a few minutes to tell us, and your answers will help shape future issues.
Stop Revisiting the Same Project Decisions
LCI’s Choosing by Advantages: A Four-Week Virtual Cohort will give participants a practical framework for making sound decisions based on the importance of real advantages. Through guided practice and real project decisions, participants will learn simpler CBA methods, strengthen decision conversations, and build toward using the Tabular Method for more complex choices.
Build Smarter. Lead Stronger.
Help your field teams reduce waste, improve workflow, and lead more effectively on the jobsite.
Lean in the Field: Build Smarter, Lead Stronger is a three-week, hands-on workshop covering Lean foundations, 5S and visual management, production studies, and coaching.
Colorado CoP Hosts Congress Presentation Team
The Colorado Community of Practice recently hosted a Taste of Congress event titled Empowering the Field: Improving Collaboration & Retention featuring Katie Hegarty of Adolfson & Peterson Construction and Aaron Nuland of Ruder Built Construction.
Katie and Aaron complemented each other well as presenters. Their strong supporting data offered a distinctive look at how pull planning can keep trade partners engaged and empowered while helping reduce attrition in the skilled trades.
Aaron shared an engaging account of his shift from a directive, controlling superintendent to a leader who facilitates planning and involves others in shaping the work. He measured the transformation with humor: his name appeared less often on the portable restroom walls.
Katie captured the central lesson by describing a change in her approach as a project manager. Instead of asking, “How do I solve these scheduling challenges?” she began asking, “How do we solve them?” That shift led the team to develop the pull plan collaboratively with the trade partners on the project.
The space was full of people engaged in the conversation, laughing, asking questions, and connecting what they heard to their own experiences. Those are the elements that make a CoP event successful and bring a Congress presentation to life.
This presentation connects to LCI’s mental health research around feeling valued and connected at work. When trades actively shape the plan, bring their experience into the conversation, and influence decisions about their work, pull planning becomes an opportunity to put respect for people into practice. It gives the people doing the work a voice and a meaningful role in determining how it gets done.
If you are attending LCI Congress, you can see this presentation live on Thursday, October 15 at 1:15pm ET. Be sure to add it to your agenda in the Congress App!
LCI Communities of Practice welcome you and look forward to connecting at an upcoming event.
Member Connections:
Why LCI Corporate Membership is Critical to Southland’s Mission
Supporting people means investing in the systems, communities, and ideas that help organizations do their best work.
In this video, Henry Nutt III of Southland Industries shares how LCI corporate membership supports Southland in strengthening leadership, supporting its teams, and staying actively engaged in moving the industry forward.
Interested in learning how LCI corporate membership can support your organization’s Lean journey? Reach out to Maryann Fiala or learn more at https://leanconstruction.org/join-lci/
Coming to Congress? Say Hello!
Calling LCI Corporate Members coming to Congress. Make sure you stop by the Registration Desk and meet the newest member of the LCI Membership team, Julie Threet! She would love to connect, and share a Lean book with you while supplies last. See you in Atlanta!
Upcoming Learning
LCI Practice Lab: Gemba Walks
Eric Lusis, Aecon Group, Kerry Beth Johnson & Tammy McConaughy, Lean Construction Institute
October 8, 2026
11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET
Thank You Renewing Member!
Bear Construction Company
Thank You Signature Sponsors!
2026 Congress Exhibitors
2026 Congress Sponsors
