From Broken Budget North America's Most Energy Efficient Lab Buildings

Lean Fix | Broken Budget to Championship Performance | lean-lab: "
March 1, 2016
Murray Guy

University of Winnipeg Richardson College for the Environment

By adopting LEAN project delivery our team was able to develop a unique design to target cost and deliver what we think might be North America’s Most Energy efficient laboratory project. What is amazing about this project is that LEAN enabled our TEAM to fix a $10M budget gap without sacrificing the clients commitment to delivering a signature building with high expectations for sustainability.

 58% less Energy, LEED Gold and fixed a $10M Budget gap

This was made possible by early engagement of a relational contracting team, jointly developed project requirement, collaborative decision making, open communications and early acceptance of the risks associated with getting in the ground early before we had completed the design."



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Target Value Design | An Assessment of the RCFE Project

Target Value Design | An Assessment of the RCFE Project | lean-lab:

March 2, 2016
Murray Guy

The University of Winnipeg Richardson College for the Environment project got into budget issues when project's Big Dream could not fit in the not so BIG budget. The financial reality was that there was $38.5M and not $50M that was estimated for the initial design concept. The team were then tasked with finding over $10M in our "Broken Buildings Busted Budget" reality. It just so happens that this book helped to convince the U of W to adopt a Lean Project Delivery approach, for this project.

Our team was successful in delivering this project. To see how we faired , we are going to compare our approach to Target Value Design best practices outlined in an article by Glenn Ballard. Glenn Ballard (2011) Target Value Design: Current Benchmark. Lean Construction Journal 2011 pp 79-84 www.leanconstructionjournal.org

Introduction
The University of California, Berkeley’s Project Production Systems Laboratory periodically publishes a description of the current benchmark in each project management process that is a subject of research.

In the building sector, it has been customary for architects to work with customers to understand what they want, then produce facility designs intended to deliver what’s wanted. The cost of those designs has then been estimated, and too often, found to be greater than the customer is willing or able to bear, requiring designs to be revised, then recosted, and so on. This cycle of design-estimate-rework is wasteful and reduces the value customers get for their money. Cost has been an outcome of design.


The following is an assessment of the process based upon this paper

Some of the project constraints that were non-negotiable were that this needed to be a signature high performance sustainable building, incorporate three science departments and meet the needs of a tight budget with high expectations on value and an aggressive schedule. Ideally the feasibility of the project is determined early in the project, ours was not. We needed to fix a budget with a project on the critical path to a two-year occupancy, with no design to meet budget. This was our challenge!

Once we had all of the key trades on board we rolled up our sleeves, set the target, defined the constraints and prioritized what represented value for the U of W stakeholder group. There needed to be an understanding and commitment to the budget as there was no pot of Gold at the end of the design process to top up any budget gap.

NO MORE MONEY | No Hidden Contingency to Save the Day"
To continue with full assessment

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How to Fix a Broken Budget and go GREEN

How to Fix a Broken Budget? | lean-lab: "
October 19, 2016
Murray Guy

At the tender opening there were no smiles as the lowest bid was $2.2M over on a $7.5 budget. To determine if we could fix the BROKEN BUDGET we assembled the team and quickly determined that the wood structure was the main issue.

Our contracting team were able to save $1.5M by changing to a concrete structure and found another $100k in value management alternatives. The balance of $600k was taken out of the $750k contingency. This left only $150k to deliver a $8.2M project and $50k of this was needed for environmental cleanup.

Can a challenging LEED Gold project be delivered with a $100k Contingency?

This project is included as one our LEAN case studies as it demonstrated WHY Lean Project Delivery can be applied at any stage of a project and HOW it can be effective delivering projects to budget with low contingencies. With the right team we not only fixed a Broken Budget but also proceeded to deliver a Saskatchewan’s first LEED project with a $100k contingency. When the TEAM committed to delivering the project they knew there was no more money and worked to deliver an amazing project for the target cost with minimal change orders.
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Recognizing Lean to be GREEN Pioneering Efforts in Canada

Recognizing Lean Project Pioneering Efforts in Canada | lean-lab: "Recognizing Lean Project Pioneering Efforts in Canada
October 19, 2016
Murray Guy

 

In 2008 the Churchill Northern Studies Centre was excited to announce the design and planning of a $15 million facility upgrade is underway.  “Integrated Designs Inc., a Saskatoon-based company with an office in Winnipeg, has been hired to coordinate design and to provide comprehensive project management for the duration of the redevelopment.”  

“We’re excited to take on the role of project managers for the CNSC and partner with an organization that is equally excited about developing a high-performance, practical, sustainable building project and utilize a lean and more integrated team based approach to delivering projects in Canada” says Murray Guy, founder of IDI a firm pioneering Integrated Project Delivery in Canada.

After reading the book “Broken Building Busted Budgets” our sponsor Michael Goodyear and the Executive team agreed to try the Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) approach based upon the fact that it creates better value, delivers projects at less cost and risk.  It also helped to meet the challenging Infrastructure Funding spending requirements.

Lean Project Delivery works because it brings together people, systems, and business practices into a process that harnesses the talents and insights of all participants. The process increases value to the Centre, by reducing waste and creating efficiency in work flow.  One of the top priorities for this project was also to achieve extremely low operating costs as the CNSC needs to cover operating costs as no additional funds are available."



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Lean to be 'GREEN' | lean-lab

Lean to be 'GREEN' | lean-lab: "

Lean to be 'GREEN'
October 20, 2016
Kathleen Lausman

Traditional design and construction practices are wasteful and fall short on value to the Owner. 

Avoidable wastes equate to 50-65% of a traditional project cost while another 25-35% is unavoidable waste inherent in processes that are required to support design and construction such as accounting. By contrast, the actual value produced in a traditional design and construction project is a mere 10%.

Figure 2: Waste in Building Industry

In short, creating waste is not a sustainable practice.

The good news is the building industry is improving through Lean Project Delivery principles and methods. Lean Project Delivery is based on the Toyota system used in manufacturing.

While Lean Project Delivery has been in practice in the US and a number of European countries for the past two decades, it is a relatively new practice in Canada that is showing impressive results toward sustainability - increasing value through waste reduction or elimination.

Lean design and construction methodology works to minimize the waste of materials and labour efforts resulting in the generation of greater value. The most effective ways to satisfy Owner requirements define value.

“Norman is Broken. There is a better way,” says Dennis Cuku, owner and visionary for the Mosaic Centre.

Projects like the Mosaic Center in Edmonton, Alberta have achieved high sustainability targets in both the processes of project delivery and the resultant facility performance through the Lean Project Delivery approach. The five main Lean principles applied on this project: indentify value; map the value stream; create flow; establish pull; and seek perfection. Lean methodologies reduced waste, increased value and delivered a 'net zero' energy facility three months ahead of schedule and 3% under budget!

The Mosaic Centre is the first triple bottom line commercial building incorporating three dimensions of an organization’s performance: social, environmental and financial.

[Review details of this Lean Integrated Project Delivery at www.themosaiccentre.ca.]

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LCI-C Rolls out Lean Project Facilitator Certification Workshop in Saskatoon

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The Saskatoon Community of Practice organized and delivered the first Level 1 Lean Project Delivery Fundamentals course and participants will be pilot testing the exam and certification process. 

Murray Guy of Lean Lab designed and presented the first level course with the simulations facilitated by Ron Cruikshank and Karen Chovan, members of the Lean Team, a coaching and training group. The three hour LPD 101 Lean Project Fundamentals Course was well received with fifteen participants including two members of the LCI-C board, Heather Morgan and Ken Smith. The work shop included: 

The Business Case for Lean Project Delivery
Why Lean? 
What is Lean? 
How Lean improves Project Performance as demonstrated on five case study projects 

Introduction to Lean Principles and Practices 
Value, Flow and Efficiency 
Learning to See and Eliminate Waste 
Creating Flow and Eliminating Variability with Hands On Simulations (Airplane Game, Dice Game) 

A high level overview of Lean Project Delivery Systems 
Last Planner System 
Target Value Design 
Pull Planning

Murray Guy
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Canada's own Lean Project Delivery Certification Program | lean-lab

Canada's own Lean Project Delivery Certification Program | lean-lab: "Canada's own Lean Project Delivery Certification Program
October 20, 2016
Murray Guy | Lean Lab

LCI-Canada is rolling out a lean training and certification program to help build Lean Project Delivery (LPD) capabilities across Canada. The program will provide training in core lean competencies and include a certification process to recognize the accomplishments of lean practitioners. Certification will involve three levels.

Level 1 Lean Project Delivery Fundamentals: Practitioners would be knowledgeable about the business case for Lean Project Delivery, lean principles and practices and have a good understanding of the systems that have been developed by the Lean Construction Institute. To become certified candidates would take courses, read suggested reading materials and pass an online exam.

Level 2 Lean Project Coordinator: Applicants will have taken second level training and developed lean competencies and implemented a number of the lean methods and systems with-in their organizations and/or on projects. The goal is to recognize the development of competencies in organizational improvement, design, construction, procurement and or supply chain management. Certification will require an exam, experience with lean methods and systems, written application outlining competencies that are supported by references.

Level 3 Lean Project Facilitator: At the facilitator level you would be expected to be able to take a leadership role in delivering a Lean Project. With successful implementation of advanced lean methods and tools you will have demonstrated success by achieving much higher levels of performance on a minimum of three projects. Lean Project Facilitators would also have completed soft skills training on leadership, team building and and establishing highly collaborative work environments. Certification will require an exam, advanced level experience with a written application outlining competencies that are supported by references.

If you are interested in learning more about the program contact Lean Construction Institute - Canada of if you would like to arrange a Lean Lab Workshop or need Lean Team Consulting

services. 

Murray Guy
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Improving Conditions for Green Building Construction In North America | CEC

Executive Summary 

Recognizing that green building requires specialized skills and capabilities on the part of many actors in the building industry, this report reviews education and training opportunities throughout North America and compares those opportunities to the skills and capabilities that are needed now, or are likely to be needed over the next decade. It also identifies gaps between the educational offerings and anticipated needs in the industry, and makes recommendations for bridging those gaps. 

Improving Conditions for Green Building Construction In North America | CEC

All workforce sectors need specific technical skills, such as the ability to work with certain tools or install certain systems, as well as interpersonal skills—the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively. Beyond skills, however, all parties to a green building project will be most effective if they also embrace an ecological mindset of interdependence and interconnectivity and shift their thinking from the conventional, sequential hand-off paradigm of design and construction. 

Successful education and training programs typically have one or more of the following characteristics:

• Knowledgeable, charismatic trainers with experience in the field 
• Peer-to-peer mentoring
• Online education that is accessible whenever the students can make time for it 
• Short-format instructional videos 
• A focus on the “why” of green approaches in addition to the “what”

The recommendations include specific suggestions for disseminating these best practices, along with steps for addressing the following gaps: 

• Ecological mindset and awareness 
• Soft-skills training and mentoring 
• Financial benefits and evaluation
• Training in specific technical fields 
• Cross-disciplinary education and training 

In addition to these industry-specific education and training needs, the report points out the value of educating those who can drive demand for green building, especially corporate clients in the United States and Canada, and government officials in Mexico.
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If you are interested using lean project delivery practices to deliver high performance green building and working on getting all new building to be NetZero Energy by 2020, please contact me with an email supporting this initiative.

For more information on Commission for Environmental Cooperation 

Thank you for your support in helping to make the Building Industry more Sustainable

Murray Guy @Lean_tobe_Green
Learn: LEAN LAB. … Design: Integrated Designs … Build: EcoSmart
For inquires: Mguy@i-designs.ca or 306.934.6818

4 Ways the Future of Learning is Changing | Randy Swearer

As the world becomes increasingly complex, the old Industrial-Age approach to higher education—studies of siloed individual subjects such as math, language, and science—has to change.

4 Ways the Future of Learning Is Changing: "

One of the hallmarks well-regarded universities share is their history as longstanding institutions of education and tradition. But disruption of how people make (and how they learn to make) things is erupting everywhere. So in the future of learning, if universities don’t ride the waves of change, they (and their students) won’t be able to keep up with the evolution of industries and jobs—and more broadly, the demands of a complex, global society.

Higher education must adapt to the 21st century—in learning, in culture, and in developing future leaders. And it won’t look anything like the current college experience.

1. No More Lectures. That’s right: The days of showing up to an hour-long lecture at 8 a.m. will slowly diminish. Traditional teaching pedagogies are ripe for disruption, and it’s starting with the new idea of “flipped classrooms.”

2. Not Just a Degree: Micro-credentialing. The boundaries of having just “one” role in a career is eroding: Skills and knowledge across disciplines is becoming more evident and necessary. Unbundling of degrees is gaining traction as an approach to actually get multidisciplinary education into practice.

3. It’s the Student Experience That Counts. Universities must adapt to the idea of expanding learning opportunities outside of campuses—to local businesses, major corporations, nonprofits, and other institutions.

4. No More Grades. The grading system started around 150 years ago, and it requires more than evolution; it needs a revolution. How do you quiz a business student interning with a company as part of their real-world application of materials in a flipped classroom? How do you take all of those multi-channels that students are confronted with and bring them together into a graded experience? Right now, you can’t.

Integration of education is the key because learning happens everywhere—in the classroom, in outside experiences, and online. It’s not about the knowledge channels; it’s about the connections between them. So each university must bring that integration to bear on the needs of its students.


If you interested in trying an Online course to develop your Lean and Green project skills, you may want to check out Lean Lab.

Murray Guy aka @Lean_tobe_Green
Learn: LEAN LAB. … Design: Integrated Designs … Build: EcoSmart
For inquires: Mguy@i-designs.ca or 306.934.6818

Is it Time to FLIP the Education System?

The Flipped Classroom - Education Next : Education Next: "The Flipped ClassroomOnline instruction at home frees class time for learning
By Bill Tucker 

Four years ago, in the shadow of Colorado’s Pike’s Peak, veteran Woodland Park High School chemistry teachers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams stumbled onto an idea. Struggling to find the time to reteach lessons for absent students, they plunked down $50, bought software that allowed them to record and annotate lessons, and posted them online. Absent students appreciated the opportunity to see what they missed. But, surprisingly, so did students who hadn’t missed class. They, too, used the online material, mostly to review and reinforce classroom lessons. And, soon, Bergmann and Sams realized they had the opportunity to radically rethink how they used class time.

It’s called “the flipped classroom.” While there is no one model, the core idea is to flip the common instructional approach: With teacher-created videos and interactive lessons, instruction that used to occur in class is now accessed at home, in advance of class. Class becomes the place to work through problems, advance concepts, and engage in collaborative learning. Most importantly, all aspects of instruction can be rethought to best maximize the scarcest learning resource—time.

The Benefits of Flipped Classroom Learning

• Fostering better relationships, greater student engagement, and higher levels of motivation.
• Creating videos forces instructors to pay attention to the details and nuances of instruction—the pace, the examples used, the visual representation, and the development of aligned assessment practices.
• Course redesign offers an opportunity to reengage students and improve their motivation
• Instructional videos are powerful tools for teachers to create content, share resources, and improve practice.

Flipped classroom teachers almost universally agree that it’s not the instructional videos on their own, but how they are integrated into an overall approach, that makes the difference. 

It is TIME to Flip the Education systerm on it's head?

Murray Guy aka @Lean_tobe_Green

Learn: LEAN LAB. … Design: Integrated Designs … Build: EcoSmart

For inquires: Mguy@i-designs.ca or 306.934.6818

Add some Discipline to the Building Design Process | Murray Guy

Target Value Design is a disciplined design management system that turns the traditional design process upside down. Unlike traditional design processes where teams often design in silos and the final cost is not known until after the tender, target cost design is a dynamic process that involves the contractors that are going to be doing the work. It involves establishing a clear target, developing fully integrated design solutions with the whole team that meet the requirements and testing assumptions to the requirements and cost. Simple as that!

The target cost design process requires that the design team completely understands the Project Requirements and what represents value for the owner, tests design assumptions early and regular for value, keeping all options open until the last minute and finally choosing and integrating the best concepts that create the best value for the target cost. 

In this four-hour work shop, you will participate in the design of a Smart Building Net Zero project that will be a building of the FUTURE. Through collaborative and the adoption of lean and more integrated practices we hope to establish a conceptual DESIGN to meet the TARGET requirements and cost while provide exceptional VALUE.

The design workshop will include six clusters of 4 to 8 people organized around building systems including foundations, structure, envelope, interiors, mechanical, electrical and communication systems.

1. The first round of the simulation will include an assessment of the Project Requirements document and a testing of assumptions with the Owner’s representative.

2. This will be followed by a short pull planning session to plan the afternoon, establish milestones and deliverables.

3. The cluster groups will then proceed with 20 minute refinements of design, followed by 20-minute report outs of the cluster groups to the overall design cost to the target.

4. Finally, we will collaborate, integrate and innovate until we develop a solution that meets or exceeds the project requirement at or below the target cost.

The work shop will conclude with a discussion on how collaboration and integration can be used to deliver higher performance at less cost enabling teams to be more competitive.

Murray Guy aka @Lean_tobe_Green

Learn: LEAN LAB. … Design: Integrated Designs … Build: EcoSmart

For inquires: Mguy@i-designs.ca or 306.934.6818

WHY we need to Fix the Construction Industry | Murray Guy

Customers will first buy WHY you are in business. In the building industry customers are looking for VALUE that our industry fails to deliver on most projects due to inefficiency and bad behavior.

With the right team everyone wins. The Owner gets better VALUE! The Team benefits from higher PROFIT margins! The Planet wins with much higher levels of sustainable PERFORMANCE!

WHY Not adopt a more collaborative and productive approach like Toyota that has enabled them to become 3X more profitable than their closest competitor? 

There is evidence that our industry is inefficient and that productivity has been declining. In the Book Broken Buildings Busted Budgets we learn that this inefficiency costs the North American Building Industry, $500 Billion per year. When there is waste there is also opportunity for companies to take advantage through innovation, integration and the adoption of new processes.

In our case study projects, we explore how lean can be applied to any type of project to fix broken budgets or to take a new project to much higher levels of performance. With lean practices we can deliver exceptional value at less cost, with less stress and with much smaller contingencies.

Where there is waste, there is also opportunity to achieve much higher levels of performance. The Lean Construction Institute (LCI) has developed a system that enables TEAMS to deliver project with 200% improvements in productivity, 40% reductions in capital cost and 30% reductions in operating costs.

In a survey conducted by AIA, the top five reasons building owners are adopting Lean Project Delivery (LPD) are:

1) Market advantage as industry leaders

2) Managing cost predictability

3) Schedule predictability

4) Reducing or managing risk

5) A higher degree of technical complexity is feasible

With government and business leaders motivated to improve productivity and address climate change, LPD is a solution that does both. Industry leaders are able to deliver buildings that have #NetZeroEnergy use at no additional cost as demonstrated on NetZeroEnergy projects like EcoSmart Prefab Green home, Okanagan College and the Mosaic Center.

If you are interested in becoming a leader in the Lean Construction market consider joining the Lean Construction Institute - Canada or arrange for a workshop or training at Lean Lab.

Murray Guy aka @Lean_tobe_Green | mguy@i-designs.ca

Integrated Designs  | EcoSmart  | Lean Lab   

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How Lean is your Project?

The adoption of Lean principles and practices can be applied to any project. The level of performance improvement will be dependent upon the level of team integration and how well the team collaborates and implements lean methods and strategies.

Through a workshop process led by Professor Paolo Tombesi, Chair of Construction at the University of Melbourne and Markku Allison, resource architect for AIA, they determined key markers that define a lean and fully Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) team.  They organized the characteristics into Markers unique to IPD projects and the key strategies employed and published these in an  IPD Case Study 

They are as follows:

IPD Markers

• Relational Contracts 
• Protection from litigation 
• Aligned project goals (Jointly Developed Project Target Criteria) 
• Informed and balanced decision-making (Collaborative Decision Making) 
• Open Communication 
• Risks Identified and Accepted Early 

IPD Strategies

• Key Participants Bound Together as Equals (Multi-party Agreement) 
• Budget & create team for design intensive work 
• Early contribution of expertise (Early Involvement of Key Participants) 
• Pre-existing relationships between parties 
• Champion/ Facilitator (Leadership by All) 
• Shared Financial Risk and Reward Based on Project Outcome 
• Liability Waivers between Key Participants 
• Fiscal Transparency between Key Participants 
• BIM - virtual rehearsal of construction and ongoing constructibility reviews 
• Lean Construction processes 
• Co-location 

They also studied the motivations for selecting Lean Project Delivery:

• Market advantage:  IPD may give the firms valuable experience upon which to market themselves as industry leaders. 
• Cost predictability: All projects would like to meet budget, however, for some the predictability of cost is a notably driving factor. 
• Schedule predictability: Similar to cost, all projects share the goal of meeting their planned schedule, but for some projects this is a major factor. 
• Risk Management: Reducing or managing risk can be tied with cost or schedule, but also may include transactional risk inherent to project type, site or other conditions. If risk management is a critical factor, the increased communication in IPD may be of particular advantage. 
• Technical Complexity: A high degree of complexity will usually demand integration of expertise and require a level of coordination that is achievable in an IPD environment. 

Collaboration and integration can occur with any project delivery method, however, IPD sets up structures that make it more likely to occur than not.  

For more information on Lean Project Delivery, you can arrange for a work shop or take a course at LEAN LAB .  If you would like help implementing lean on your project, Integrated Designs can join your team as a facilitator.

Murray Guy @Lean_tobe_Green
Mguiy@i-designs.ca

Lean Lab | Integrated Designs | EcoSmart 

How to Fix a Broken Budget with Target Value Design

At the Richardson College for the Environment project we turned the design process on its head as we needed to try and meet the expectations of project stakeholders that were initially told to “Dream Big” on a not so BIG budget. The financial reality was there were only funds for a much smaller dream of $38.5M and not the $50M that was the price tag for the initial design.

Our team was tasked with finding over $10M in savings, as there was no money to be found to build the dream. We were living the "Broken Buildings Busted Budget" reality which was the book that was used to convince the U of W that we needed to adopt the Lean Project Delivery approach.

As a framework for assessing how well the process worked for the design phase, I have adapted an article that was written by Glen Ballard one of the founders of the Lean Construction Institute. My reason for doing this is that our team delivered an exceptional project and I was interested in knowing how close we came to implementing what would be considered best practices for Target Value Design (TVD). 

Project Summary

Target Value Design together with a Relational Contracting enabled the RCFE team to fix a BIG Dream project on a Smaller Dream budget and deliver an exceptional project that did achieve the project requirements within amazingly tight time and budget constraints. The team needed to get started with shoring and foundations before the project was designed, deliver a $43.8M 70% laboratory building project with 65 fume hoods, vivarium, green house with only a $750,000 contingency. This was achieved which is amazing considering that $450,000 of the contingency was used on one code related issue that emerged on an interpretation of stairwell pressurization to meet fire code. 

Our team exceeded the LEED Silver requirements, Got Gold and through Innovation and Imagination in Laboratory design deliver one of North Americas most energy efficient laboratory projects at 58% less energy that MNECB.

For the full article Lean Lab Blog

For a workshop on Target Value Design 

Lean-Lab | Target Value Design | An Assessment of the RCFE Project: "Target Value Design | An Assessment of the RCFE Project

March 2, 2016

Upon review of the TVD process, our team did pretty darn good!

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The New Moneyball: Net 0-0 is the Game | Murray Guy

As portrayed in the movie Moneyball, Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) the GM for the Oakland A’s implemented a performance metrics system that enabled his team to become one of most successful low budget teams in baseball! By finding undervalued performance with on-base percentage players, young and older talent, the Oakland A’s have consistently outperformed the competition. In doing so the A’s have completely dispelled the myth that there needs to be tradeoffs between cost and performance.

If we were to adopt this same thinking for the building industry, could we deliver a CHAMPIONSHIP building that produces as much energy as it uses at no additional cost? (Net 0-0)

Why Net 0-0?

A common theme amongst all GREAT Teams is that they succeeded because they were working towards some higher purpose like fixing our worlds greatest challenge, climate change. In a recent Fast Company post of “The Top 9 Info Graphics of 2014”, the first graphic paints a potential scary vision for our future if we do not address climate change. “In 1000 years if civilization collapses most of the buildings and bridges around today will have fallen.” I think this means there would also be no more baseball!

Why risk all of this, when we currently have the ability to eliminate 40% of all GHG in North America by building to Net 0 energy performance! Europe has already committed to a Net 0 energy standard by the year 2020. Net 0 is coming and so why not start practicing now? Our industry is currently able to deliver Net 0 performance at a 10% cost premium. We just need to find a way to tweak and tune our processes to get to Net 0 additional cost.



Net 0-0 is a GREAT target and at no additional cost there can be NO EXCUSES.

We need to stop acting like the Big Budget Teams!The problem with the building industry is that we act like the New York Yankees when it comes to delivering GREEN building projects. We get out our checkbooks buy sexy green technologies, field a team of disintegrated high priced performers that stumble their way to Net 0 energy performance at a significant cost premium. It doesn’t have to be this way, as there are masters in the industry that know how to get GREEN done on a beer budget!

We can learn from other industries that have proven that quality and performance can be free. We need to adopt similar processes as Billy Beane did in baseball or Edward Deming, who proved that “Quality is Free” in the automobile industry. With new THINKING we can break down barriers to high performance

Is there a PLAYBOOK for the Building Industry?

Leaders in our industry are utilizing Lean and more integrated processes to deliver high performance building at less cost, in less time while providing a better quality product. 

Interested in a workshop or online training on HOW to deliver Lean & Green projects?

You will learn how to: 

• Assemble a winning TEAM: With the right players, practice, discipline and focus we can deliver much higher performance at less cost. 
• Adopt SYSTEMS like what Toyota used for manufacturing but adapted for construction. This is called Lean Project Delivery.
• Collaborate on creating creating flow and efficiency

When we create a PLAYBOOK that focuses on winning strategies that creates VALUE for the customer everyone wins. The Customer wins with better value at less risk and cost, the Designers and Contractors win with happy customers and repeat business and the planet wins with less resource use and emissions

Cowboy Math: Is Net 0 -0 Feasible?

Current estimates are that there is a 10% to 20% cost premium to get to NetZero energy use for the cost of renewable energy systems and higher performance building systems. By tunnelling through the cost barriers with integrated designs and lean project delivery there is the potential to deliver projects at 40% less cost.

When we do the cowboy math the potential saving are greater than the premium, so yes we can convert the waste of traditional approaches to high performance Net 0 levels buildings at Net 0 additional cost.

Who will win the Net 0-0 Championship?

There are two projects in Canada that have adopted Lean Project Delivery to deliver Net 0 levels of performance:

Okanagan College Trades Complex

Mosaic Center for Community and Commerce. 

Integrated Designs is fortunate to be working on both of these projects for information on The Mosaic Center or Okanagan College 


In our search for world-class performances we will discover the secrets to win the TOUGHEST GAME in town, Net 0-0.

Murray Guy aka @Lean_tobe_Green | mguy@i-designs.ca

Integrated Designs  | EcoSmart  | Lean Lab   

You made it to the end ... Have an Awesome Day

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Murray the "Net Zero GUY" | Building the FUTURE

Murray Guy, MBA, P. Eng., PMP, LEED AP

One day two Donkeys from Maui, stopped Murray and requested that he stop having so dam much fun wave sailing and do something to fix the extreme effects of climate change.  The locals were starting to get a little pissed that the grass wasn't as GREEN as it should and decided to approach warriors that love to play in the beautiful outdoors to join forces and make the difficult changes needed to secure the future.

Murray being knowledgeable and passionate about high performance buildings decided that he had better listen to these very determined and tough characters and went forth and started three companies to Build the Future. 

Integrated Designs, EcoSmart Developments and Lean Lab are companies that have a purpose and up to the challenge of changing a very inefficient and wasteful building industry to achieve Factor 10 levels of performance improvement.  We accomplish this through the adoption of lean and more integrated practices and by promoting more sustainable behavior. This in not an option, it is required to sustain life on a planet that is headed to 11 Billion people by 2100.

By helping our clients to Get Green Done they become recognized as leaders, benefit from a positive return on investment and together we can feel real good about creating a more sustainable building industry. 

Our goal is to make all new buildings NetZero Energy by 2020

Why so Passionate about Green?

When you love to play in the outdoors you become very motivated to protect your playground. When you know there is a better way, it is our duty to do the best we can with what we have.  It helps when you have a team of passionate talented hard working people that are committed to fixing an industry that is hugely wasteful and resource intensive. 

We have the expertise to build NetZero & provide a Positive Return on Investment 

Why Lean?

With the Integrated Design process  we we were able to deliver LEED Gold projects that used 55% less energy at no additional cost. This is not good enough!  With Lean we get to integrate the efforts of the whole team and do battle on the up to 40% waste that is inherent with more traditional design-tender-build processes.  

If you need evidence check out the book "Broken Building Busted Budgets"

How do Lean to be Green ECOnomics work?

With Lean we will save as a minimum the 15% extra it may take to get to NetZero. Masters in Lean are able to save up to 40% of the cost of a project. That is how we can deliver NetZero buildings at less cost with lots left over for profit and our wish list.

What is the NetZero Revolution?

There is growing excitement about going NetZero!  We are experiencing this as we just passed an awesome milestone of participating on our fifth NetZero targeted project. The NetZero REVOLUTION is about making NetZero homes COOL like the i-phone so everyone wants one. 

For the NETZero Revolution to Happen, we need to make NetZero #COOL and #Affordable

Murray'S NetZero Targeted Home

What are your Capabilities and how do they create VALUE?

At Integrated Designs we utilize lean integrated practices to turn waste into high performance buildings. We have the capabilities to deliver NetZero buildings at very little if any additional cost as demonstrated on five NetZero targeted projects.

At EcoSmart we  build homes that are high performance, unique and planet friendly. With #prefab #passive and #integration we can deliver affordable #NetZero projects that provide a positive return on investment.

At Lean Lab  we share knowledge with online courses on Lean Project Facilitation, Target Cost Design, The Art of Commissioning and the Last Planner System.  Our hands on workshops demonstrate that lean works and how it can be used  get deliver GREEN high performance projects. 

What types of projects and experience?

We tend to work for people that understand total life cycle economics, want to continually improve and adopt new processes

• NetZero: More than 5 NetZero targeted projects ranging in size from a  $400k residence to a $25M Trades Centre building for Okanagan College
• Lean: Participation on over 10 projects ranging in size for a $1.5M multi-unit residential to an $80M development for the University of Winnipeg. Five lean projects with U of W
• EcoSmart: Design and Build of a $1.2M duplex that is my NetZero home and are currently working on the design of our seventh home. Five of them being Factor 10 or Net Zero
• Innovation Place: Started a High Performance Building Program (1997-2004) that includes three LEED Gold facilities
• First Nations & Northern High Performance Projects: $18M Churchill Northern Studies Center, $3M NORTEP Multi-unit large family high performance double wall residential 
• Energy and Renewals: $7.5M POS Building Renewal, $5M SRC Analytical Lab, 
• Commissioning & Controls: Saskatchewan Centre for Disease Control, Design of Control Systems for Innovation Place, City of Saskatoon and 10 years controls engineer Honeywell

Education

• Masters in Business Administration; University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, 1997
• Bachelor of Engineering; Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, 1984
• Engineering Technology Diploma; SIAST Kelsey Institute, Saskatoon, SK, 1975
• Project Management Professional (PMP) designation, 2010
• LEED accredited professional, 2004
• LEAN Design certified instructor, 2015

Lean Training & Workshops:

• Lean Construction Institute National Conferences 2012/2013/2014 
• Last Planner System, Pull Planning, Study Action Teams & Choosing by Advantages by Lean Project Consulting on the Okanagan College project
• Integrated Project Delivery/Multi-party agreements training with DPR Construction (Dan Reid) & Howard Ashcraft on the Mosaic Center project
• Moose Jaw Hospital Big Room/Target Cost Design & Takt Time Planning at the Lean Leadership Conference
• Lean Transformation - 2 Day Boot Camp with Hardy Hartwig & Dennis Cuku of Oil Country Engineering
• Lean construction training audits of America General Contractors (AGC) Module 4 Last Planner Process & Module 6 Lean Design & Pre-Construction 

Presentations & Publications

• NetZero is Cool, Let's Start a Revolution
• Lean Lab | Introduction to Lean Project Delivery Video
• NetZero Building Revolution: How to Get Started with NetZero
• Lean Project Delivery | Empowering Teams to Deliver WOW Projects Blog
• LeanCx: Commissioning for Performance, Productivity and Profit Workshop & Blog
• EcoSmart Building the Future: How to Deliver NetZero Blog
• The Art of Commissioning Blog
• CleanTech Champions | Celebrating Start-up Companies Blog
• Triple Bottom Line | Leadership Blog
• Presentations to LCI, PMI, BOMA, IFMA, SAVE, PCL, CCA, CPC, EMTF & Defense Canada
• The BIG IDEA (Lean to be Green): How to achieve high performance buildings at less cost
• Published Introductory Guides on Lean Project Delivery & Commissioning (LeanCx) 

Associations

• Lean: Founding member LCI-Canada & Board Member, LCI member, 4 National conferences
• Green: CaGBC, Founding member Build Saskatchewan Green conference
• Project Management: PMI
• Design: APEGS, APEGGa, APEGM & ASHRAE

Awards and Accomplishments

• Leadership in Green Buildings - 2015 Build Saskatchewan Green
• Saskatchewan Slalom Windsurfing Champion: 2010, 2012

   Murray Guy aka @Lean_tobe_Green | mguy@i-designs.ca

Integrated Designs  | EcoSmart  | Lean Lab   

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