Lean to be 'GREEN' | lean-lab

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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

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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.

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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?

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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