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A podcast dedicated to stories, case studies and lessons learned of applying Lean Construction from around the world.
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Watch on Youtube.Progressive Design-Build (PDB) is an alternative project delivery method that has been gaining popularity in the construction industry. PDB is a variation of the Design-Build method where the owner hires a design-builder based primarily on qualifications, not price, and then collaboratively develops the project design and budget.Benefits:- Improved collaboration and communication- Increased flexibility and innovation- Better alignment of project goals among all parties- Progr...
Watch on Youtube.Evelyn M. Lee, FAIA, is an architect turned tech entrepreneur who blends her design background with a passion for innovation. As an angel investor, startup advisor, and fractional COO, she helps drive growth for architecture firms, embracing new ways of practicing. Lee is the founder of Practice of Architecture and hosts the Practice Disrupted podcast with over 50,000 listeners globally. We think you’ll enjoy her insights on integrating technology, leadership development, and...
Watch on Youtube.Victor Sanvido has been thinking about better project delivery since he worked in his family’s business in Cape Town. He came to the States to study with many of the luminaries in production delivery at Stanford University and later taught many of the leading lights in the lean community at Penn State University. Victor was thinking about more effective and more collaborative delivery models in the 1980s, more than a decade before the formation of IGLC and almost ...
Watch on Youtube.Daniel H. Pink is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including his latest, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward. His other books include the New York Times bestsellers When and A Whole New Mind — as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. Dan’s books have won multiple awards, have been translated into more than 40 languages, and have sold millions of copies around the world. He lives in Washington, DC, with his f...
Watch on Youtube.Glenn Ballard, Research Associate, P2SL - UCBerkeley began lecturing on productivity and quality improvement at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and was named Research Director for the university’s Project Production Systems Laboratory (P2SL) in 2005. He co-founded the International Group of Lean Construction (IGLC) in 1993, the Lean Construction Institute (LCI) in 1997, the P2SL in 2005, and Lean in the Public Sector in 2007. Glenn is currently working on a TVD...
Watch on Youtube.Vince Chapman started his tenure at the University of Texas as a philosophy major. He didn’t do well in his first accounting course, so like a never fail Longhorn would do, he decided to master that degree. In the interim, he has become one of the best known auditors of IPD and other construction delivery contracts. Join us as we explore the three major transparency questions in IPD: overhead, hourly rates and profit.
Watch on Youtube.Howard Ashcraft is the most recognized and most honoured currently practicing lawyer in the Lean Design and Construction Community. He has been thinking about and drafting collaborative contracts (most usually IPD) since 2005. Join us for a thoughtful chat on where he started, where he’s been and where he wants to go.
Watch on Youtube.Luciana Burdi returned to Southern Italy after receiving her masters in Architecture from Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV) in Venice, Italy. She had developed a passion for using architecture in the public sector and so turned her attention to the United States. At the age of 28, with no experience in English, she moved in with family in Chicago and began a career in public service and the built environment that has been remarkably success...
Watch on Youtube.Mark Van Buren came to Queens University in Kington, Ontario looking for a degree in Architecture. He stayed 8 years and ended up with Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, concentrating on water management. He spent the next decade or so in California and Milwaukee on large water management projects, largely storm run-off systems. Turns out the storm was in the contract delivery system and not in the pipes. Disgruntled with the delivery process, he jumped at th...
Watch on Youtube.Stuart Eckblad has been thinking divergently since he left home for Kent State to pursue a degree in architecture. That led him to the University of Wisconsin where he received a masters degree in Environmental Design. He was particularly interested in the effect of color on human beings. That kind of curiosity inspired a long career dedicated to moving from traditional delivery to a new vocabulary in the built environment, one that focused on collaboration...
Watch on Youtube.Jessica Kelley lives in the Pennsylvania farm house she grew up in, and that her Mom also grew up in. Her two-year-old son is the fourth generation in that house. While she is obviously honours her traditions, she is also one of the great pioneers and innovators in our lean community. She participated in the first IPD project with Sutter, helped drive the most successful Community of Practice in Northern California for LCI and worked with mechanical design/b...
Watch on Youtube.There is much talk these days about women in construction. How about a woman who’s name is synonymous with thought leadership in construction? Iris Tommelein describes herself as a secular humanist. She balks at being called the high priestess but she surely is a Grand Dame of lean construction. She leads, and founded with Glenn Ballard in 2005, the Project Production Systems Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley. At Berkeley, she has guided, ment...
Watch on YoutubeWill Lichtig is Executive VP and Chief of Staff at The Boldt Company. Many know Will by his informal title, "Chief Provocateur." Will was the author of the original Integrated Form of Agreement and has been central to the development and implementation of lean processes for target value design, lean production planning and control, Built in Quality, lean problem solving, and other key processes that provide innovative approaches to project delivery. Saying that he ...
Watch on Youtube.Dr. Andreas Phelps is an original thinker of the first order. He has a phd in Construction Management from Penn State University and is the CEO of the Collective Potential. He lives with his talented wife and two incredible kids off the grid in a tiny house in the Bay Area. His Tiny House Presentation at the 2021 LCI Congress was so popular he was brought back to this year’s Congress to keynote the opening of the Congress, speaking on intentionality and lead...
Watch on Youtube.Mike Casten started his construction career as a carpenters’ apprentice before attending Colorado State University as an Industrial Construction Management major. He was working with Hensel Phelps when he was introduced to time lapse photography and Greg Howell. He was an early pioneer in the quest for improvement of the productivity of the work at the construction crew level overall as well as overall project performance. Over the last forty plus years he has pro...
Watch on YoutubeGerry McCabe is the Managing Director of Turner and Townsend in Canada. He was a founding member of his own company that was acquired by Turner and Townsend in 2010. He grew up in Belfast during the “troubles.” He came to Canada to visit relatives originally and decided to stay. He’s a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and one of the most interesting people you’ll meet. Come join as we chat about how to estimate the cost of something that hasn’t been de...
View the PPI website:https://projectproduction.org/Watch on Youtube.Gary Fischer is currently the Executive Director of the Project Production Institute (PPI). After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University he spent 40 years in Chevron’s capital projects organization. Gary was responsible for Chevron’s project management system and led the group that provided functional expertise across the corporation’s capital projects portfolio. He pioneered ...
Watch on Youtube.Rex Miller was a successful manager for a major office furniture manufacturer when he got down-sized—as in out of a job. He knows hard times. He also knows resilience, perseverance, creativity and leadership. Rex has coached hundreds of teams in North America to understand their strengths and deliver on their commitments. He kicked off a lot of people’s thinking around lean construction when he wrote the Commercial Real Estate Revolution with a team of like-minded...
Watch on Youtube.Jennifer Kahn has been working at Ellis Don for more than a decade, focusing on inclusion, diversity and people and culture. In April, she was named Vice President with that same portfolio. “I am proud to be part of the ongoing education, awareness and real conversations on Inclusive Diversity at EllisDon,” she says. “As a working mother of two boys, a visible minority with immigrant parents, who’s married to a Canadian Muslim, diversity is part of my everyd...
Mark Konchar learned how to collaborate, growing up playing hockey. He is one of the PhD’s that Victor Sanvido turned out of Penn State that has so influenced our community. He and Victor collaborated on an early Design Build Study sponsored by the Construction Industry Institute. He’s a co-author of Change Your Space, Change Your Culture with Rex Miller and others. Mark served as chair of the Board of the Lean Construction Institute and was Balfour Beatty’s Chief Inno...
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