Engaging with Industry A Lean Construction Special Interest Group

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Engaging with IndustryA Lean ConstructionSpecial
Interest Group
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What is a Special Interest Group?

• Small group of employers
• Shared interest e.g. efficient processes
• Discuss and address work-related issues
• Facilitated by CKE NW
• Assisted by SCRI
• Funded by NWDA and ERDF

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Who is in the Lean Group?

• Construction Managers
• Designers
• PDA Partnership
• Downs Variava
• Paddock Johnson Associates

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What have they done?

• Focus on action learning
• Good and bad practice
• General discussions
• The theory of lean construction
• Industry practices
• Planned the future of the group

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Useful questions

• What is your issue?
• Problem, opportunity, concern, project
• Why is it important?
• How will you recognise progress?
• What have you done?
• What are you planning to do?
• People, processes, philosophy

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Ground Rules

• Share experiences
• Listen and question
• Support and challenge
• Respect Confidentiality
• Show Commitment
• Focus no mobile phones

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Issues for Action

• Generating dialogue on soft issues
• Promoting pre-fabrication
• Development of competent professionals
• Problems around the design phase
• Sharing good and bad practice
• Management of on-site work
• Communication between offices

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Impact

• More of this kind of thing should be done.
  Its better to have a dialogue than to be given
  information. In the past its been difficult
  total to talk about construction problems because
  of the entrenched positions of people in
  construction. Now were talking and finding out
  more about each other

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Moving Forward

• More structure
• More members
• More groups
• Working with the university
• Interface with researchers
• Plan implementation of tools
• Influencing policy
• Develop evidence-base
• Funding

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Questions?
Veronica Jones v.c.jones_at_salford.ac.uk
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Moving beyond

• Factory visit
• Access to modules

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What have they done?

• The basics of lean construction

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Previously

• Feb-28
• Lean-related problems
• Lean theory
• Opportunity for case studies
• Implementation issues
• Apr-05
• Good and bad practices
• May-11
• Academic reflections
• Individual issues

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Why did you join?

• Find out what other people are doing, exchange
  knowledge and learn
• Specifically
• Learn about construction
• Explore potential for lean in process and product
  
• Make contacts for joint projects
• Answer PQQs
• Develop CPD modules

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Has it worked for you?

• To some extent (x2)
• Yes, but (x2)
• Yes, generally (x3)

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Issues Arising

• Stop talking and start doing focus on practical
  matters agree actions
• The exchange should be more focussed
• Need to learn from failures as well as successes
• The composition of the group could be better
• Would have liked more input from civils
  perspective
• Could do with wider representation
• Could have done with more people from the design
  team

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Opportunities

• Education and Training
• CPD modules development
• PQQ workshops
• Research Enterprise Collaboration
• 3D to nD modelling development and
  implementation
• Consultancy
• Lean case studies site management
• Other
• Research advisory body
• Lean forum / progress network

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Useful questions

• What is your issue?
• Problem, opportunity, concern, project
• Why is it important?
• How will you recognise progress?
• What have you done?
• What are you planning to do?
• People, processes, philosophy
• What were the lessons?
• Success factors main obstacles
• How have you managed your knowledge?

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Ground Rules

• Share experiences
• Listen and question
• Support and challenge
• Respect Confidentiality
• Show Commitment
• Focus no mobile phones
• Be punctual