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LCI has four awards that are presented at the annual LCI Congress event in October. These awards constitute an essential aspect of LCI programs, recognizing the accomplishments of individuals in the Lean environment who have provided extraordinary service on behalf of LCI and/or the industry as a whole.
Pioneer Award
The LCI Pioneer Award recognizes individuals who have moved the design and construction industry forward in embracing and implementing Lean tools and techniques.
Board Achievement Award
The LCI Board Achievement Award recognizes individuals who have moved the Lean Construction Institute forward in meeting its mission of transforming the design and construction industry. The awards are given out during LCI’s Annual Congress where awardees are recognized by the Lean Design and Construction community.
Design Award - A Team Award
The LCI Design Award recognizes project teams that are delivering outstanding design while advancing the industry through collaborative Lean Project Delivery. The purpose of this award is to encourage the adoption of Lean approaches and methods to improve project outcome and elevate design.
Engineering Design Award – A Team Award
The LCI Engineering Design Award recognizes project teams (architects, engineers, designers, clients and constructors) who work together to improve the design and construction process and produce design excellence in the built environment. Selection of Engineering Design Award winners is based upon how the projects implemented the tenets of lean (50%) and generation of value/fit for use (50%).
2025 LCI Board Achievement Award Recipient
Dan Heinemeier
Executive Director, Lean Construction Institute (LCI)
Dan will retire in December 2025 after serving as LCI’s executive director since 2013. During that time, he has exemplified exceptional leadership and dedication while spearheading LCI’s programmatic, budgetary, and organizational success. His unwavering commitment to the principles of Lean design and construction, as well as his outstanding contributions to LCI, make him a deserving recipient of the 2025 Board Achievement Award.
2025 Annual Design Award Recipients
The Lean Construction Institute (LCI) is pleased to recognize the awardee of the fifth annual LCI Lean in Design Award:
Cone Health Medical Center Asheboro
Asheboro, North Carolina
- Cone Health: Project Owner
- Perkins & Will: Architect
- AEI Affiliated Engineers: MEP Engineering
- Walter P. Moore: Structural Engineering
- Robins & Morton: Construction
Cone Health’s Ambulatory Clinic and Cancer Treatment Center in Asheboro brings their vision for a healing, patient-centered campus to life. Surrounded by preserved forest, the design creates a calming, nature-integrated experience that supports physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. Through careful site placement, open views, and a welcoming porch, the team prioritized patient comfort, community connection, and environmental stewardship. Delivered through an Integrated Project Delivery approach, the team aligned the project’s vision, budget, and schedule using Lean methodology.
Driven by speed to market, future flexibility, and a commitment to becoming a destination for health and wellness, the Ambulatory Clinic and Cancer Treatment Center’s success was measured by its ability to quickly deliver 51,000 SF of oncology and ambulatory care services while minimizing site disturbance.
Partners include:
- LIPD Consulting
- Stimmel
- Rock City Mechanical
- Mid-Atlantic Infrastructure Systems, Inc.
- Adams Electric Company
2025 Design Award Honorable Mention
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Arthur M. Blank Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta: Project Owner
- Esa, Page, FLAD, Hendrick: Architects
- Brasfield & Gorrie, JE Dunn: Builders (CM/GC)
- DaVinci-Winstead, Adams: Program Management Support
- Lowe: Civil Engineer
- HGOR: Landscape Architect
- Walter P Moore: Structural Engineer
- WSP: M/E/P/FP Engineer, Lighting Design
2025 Design Award Honorable Mention
Canadian Nuclear Labs (CNL) New Builds
Kingston, Ontario
IPD Team:
- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories: Owner
- Sullivan Chandos (CNL) JV Corp.: Contractor
Design Partners:
- HDR Architecture Associates, Inc.: Architect
- LEA Consulting: Structural
- Introba: Mechanical
- Jp2g Consultants: Electrical and Civil
Trade Partners:
- Nordic Structures: Timber
- JMR Electric: M/E Contractor
- Flynn Canada Ltd.: Envelope
- Marcantonio: Drywall and Drywall System
- ABI/Advanced Building Interiors: Furniture Systems
- Siemens: Controls
2025 Annual Engineering Design Award Recipient
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
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. Delivered three months ahead of schedule at a cost savings of almost $3M, this project had no lost time incidents.
Previous Award Recipients
2024
Board Achievement Award
Dave Hagan, Devenney Group Ltd.
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Design Award
Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin Campus, Austin, Texas
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Engineering Design Award
Merck B63A, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
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2023
Pioneer Award
Keyan Zandy, Skiles Group
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Board Achievement Award
John Zachara, Integrated Facilities Solutions, Inc.
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Design Award
Joan and Paul Rubschlager Building, Chicago, Illinois
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Engineering Design Award
Ultium Cells Battery Cell Manufacturing Facility, Warren, Ohio
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2022
Pioneer Award
Howard Ashcraft and Lisa Dal Gallo, Hanson Bridgett
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Chairman’s Award
Douglas Lee, Brasfield & Gorrie
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Design Award
Joan and Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building
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2021
Pioneer Award
Albert Manshum, Advocate Aurora Health
Chairman’s Award
George Zettel, Turner Construction Company
Design Award
Dr. Anne Anderson High School
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2020
Dean Reed, DPR Construction
Christian Pikel, The ReAlignment Group
2019
Victor Sanvido, Senior Vice President Southland Industries
Felipe Engineer-Manriquez, Lean Director McCarthy Building Companies
2018
Henry Nutt, III Sheet Metal Superintendent Southland Industries
Rebecca Snelling Vice President and National Lean Director J.E. Dunn Construction
2017
Michael Bade Associate Vice Chancellor Capital Programs & Campus Architect University of California, San Francisco
Bevan Mace National Vice President Operations & Lean Balfour Beatty US
2016
Sutter Health
Hal Macomber President Macomber Consultants, LLC
2015
Iris D. Tommelein Director Project Production Systems Laboratory (P2SL) Professor, Engineering and Project Management University of California, Berkeley
Bernita Beikmann Principal Director of Lean Strategy HKS Inc.
2014
Walt Disney Imagineering
Romano Nickerson Principal Boulder Associates
2013
Leo Linbeck III Executive Chairman Linbeck
Dick Bayer President The ReAlignment Group, Ltd.
2012
William A. Lichtig Senior Vice President The Boldt Company Paul Reiser Executive Vice President The Boldt Company William R. Seed Director, Design & Construction Universal Health Services
2011
Glenn Ballard LCI Co-Founder Greg Howell LCI Co-Founder
