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Thoughts on the programme
Programme themes:: Design for Construction and Green Construction
lean implications of the design stage
Traditionally the IGLC focus is on construction management, whereas lean has a much wider focus. In the past European members have brought up issues that relate to more upstream decisions, such as the value question. If creating value is the mantra of lean, it immediately raises the question ‘Value for whom?’ While constructing a built environment this question is less straightforward to answer than manufacturing consumer products such as cars. If we create more with less we create more value. It is common wisdom that we can steer on costs with decisions made early in the process. Once the design is accepted the major decisions with regard to the total costs are made, cost control and cutting costs require considerable effort with many times marginal results. That is where the last planner operates. How can we connect the first planner to the last planner, or using the car metaphor: what is the importance of the car concept design for an efficient production process?
Time - Effect diagram
Green construction: how does lean construction relate to a sustainable future?
Some people say that the climate changes, others think that the oil price goes up. Whatever, it occupies our minds. There is much to be said for not depleting our natural resources. Lean production has been abstracted to lean thinking, adopted by lean construction and passed on to other project based industries such as oil drilling and shipbuilding. Is there a next step we can contribute to? If Lean construction is project based, sustainable building is process oriented. Can we contribute to sustainable building? At the same time sustainable building is an enormous body of knowledge lean construction can build on. This relates to the design topic as well as to the construction process.
EGLC8 Sessions
Our intention in this meeting is to ask presenters to consider the implications of their research for the future of life on the planet and the role of design and designers in whatever research they are presenting. Of course we welcome presentations about design & lean and green per se. We will ask session chairs to focus discussion on the design and green issues emerging from the presentations. The final session on Tuesday morning will seek to draw these ideas together. We have included an hour at the end of the programme for a formal discussion of EGLC futures.
Programme
day |
time |
topic |
detail |
Monday |
1000 |
Registration |
refreshments |
Monday |
1030 |
Welcome & check-in |
Participants quickly share current issues, design and green research interests, concerns and news Agree agenda for this meeting Agenda options: Christine Pasquire: early contractor involvement. Fritz Gehbauer IFC Data Modelling for automated building construction. Sigmund Aslesen: Findings from a case study of one shipyard’s effort to improve the flow of communication. Video Obayashi ABCS, Automated Building Construction System. Ype Cuperus: Singapore presentation: An Introduction to Open Building and Lean Construction. Doing Research on Design in the context of the end-to-end construction process. |
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1200 - ish |
Session 1 |
Setting the stage. The basics of Lean construction (Alan Mossman), responses asked from the first time Spanish participants. |
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1300 |
Lunch |
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1345 |
Session 2 |
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1515 |
Tea |
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Monday 17 Nov |
1530 |
Session 3 |
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1700 |
Close |
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dinner |
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Tuesday 18 Nov |
0900 |
Session 4 |
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1045 |
coffee |
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1115 |
Session 5 |
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1300 |
lunch |
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1400 |
Sessio 6 |
Plus/delta |
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1500 |
EGLC8 close |
tea |
Ype Cuperus
Alan Mossman
Katarina Mrkonjic
Potential sub-topics include:
- Target cost design
- Set based design – new book out from Michael Kennedy
- Developing the production process alongside the product design
- Using A3s for knowledge management - one new book out and another imminent
- Eliciting client requirements
- Role of contracts
- Management and leadership of design - incl. use of LPS in design
- Developing a research strategy for lean design
- Effect of eu procurement rules
- Research methods - if, as some are suggesting, industry is leading the way & doing the research (albeit informally) how can the academic community best study, validate, develop and disseminate that learning. This could discuss research methods and might help us draw on research experience from a variety of disciplines at future meetings.