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Session 2: Traditional Productivity Improvement Techniques
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February 4, 2010 • 1:00 - 2:30 PM EST
Presented by:
Michael Casten, Construction Concepts®
The
Practical Approaches to Improving Construction Productivity
series looks at traditional and contemporary techniques for improving productivity on construction projects. For both projects underway or in the planning phase, small improvements can have a major effect. Improving labor production or construction processes that saves as little as five days on a one-year project translates to a 2.5% savings. Assuming a planned 10% profit, that's a 25% increase in profit. In today's tight bidding, low-margin environment, the profit increase is even more substantial.
Incorporating productivity concepts at the design stage can provide even greater benefits;
owners, design-builders and construction managers can all benefit.
Join nationally know construction experts to learn how to
identify and measure current production
and begin implementing improvements. Learn what to look for and where to get the most significant gains. Employ traditional techniques of
tuning crew sizes,
work flow,
support resources,
trade coordination
and
right-sizing equipment.
Learn how
lean construction techniques such as prefabrication and material logistics
can be applied to jobs already underway. Explore team problem-solving approaches that are enabled by
integrated project delivery concepts
and technology approaches like building information modeling.
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Session 2 — Thursday, February 4, 2010 • 1:00-2:30 EST
Traditional Productivity Improvement Techniques
Michael Casten, Construction Concepts®
Construction productivity expert Michael Casten presents his views and techniques for development and management of productivity improvement. The average construction operation underperforms production capacity by a factor of three or four times. Careful study of work at the crew level will reveal massive amounts of delays, wasted effort and inefficient and ineffective use of resources. Casten provides solutions to help project managers, supervisors and engineers find opportunities for reengineering
process and resource utilization that can almost immediately double the output of many operations.
You'll learn successful productivity techniques Casten has developed in over 30 years of specialized project management consulting to dozens of ENR top 100 contractors, including:
- Limitations of output measurement and cost reporting systems
- Crew level analysis
- Importance of project and corporate management leadership
- Why average construction operations underperform three and four fold
- How to turn underperformance into measurable improvement over current "acceptable" performance levels
- Eliminating delays and wasted effort, and inefficient and ineffective use of resources
- Applying the process of "purposive discovery" to uncover opportunities to double output
- "Operations engineering" techniques such as Operation Economics and proactive Operation Engineering and Design
- Setting exceptional performance expectations and well engineered work area to ensure average craftsmen can achieve the potential of the resources used
- And much, much more!
The best cost control system ever devised is the effective implementation of an engineered potential production solution. Register today to start your company on the road toward increased production, higher performance projects and a greatly improved bottom line.
YOUR PRESENTER:
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is the founder of Construction Concepts®, a construction production management consulting firm in Greensboro, North Carolina. Mike is an internationally recognized expert in the facilitation of breakthrough performance for contractor clients of all sizes. The construction project production management and control system Mike has developed over 30 years of consulting is a unique approach to managing for improvements in both employee performance and the quality of service and product. Working closely
with the senior leadership of each client organization, Mike focuses on the development of construction project leadership teams capable of planning for and completing construction projects with exceptional safety, quality and productivity. With his help, client project leadership teams are educated and trained in improved pre-construction planning, project operation and value stream production planning and control, work area preparation and ongoing operation observation and analysis skill sets.
Mike has authored Supervisory Training Program (STP) units for the Associated General Contractors of America, three of the five Carolinas AGC Project SuperVISION forty-hour core courses, the Contractor Guidelines for Career Development and has trained many of the instructors for the core courses. Additionally he has compiled, edited, written and helped teach the very successful Supervisors Institute, an intense week-long course for construction project leaders, with more than 2,000 graduates. Recently
Mike has co-developed and taught Construction Performance Improvement at Virginia Tech.
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Session 3: Thursday, February 11, 2010
Using Lean Techniques for Measurable Productivity Gains
James Choo and Roberto Arbulu, Strategic Project Solutions, Inc.
While many of us are familiar with the concepts, few of us have taken the time to actually attempt to implement lean construction techniques, often due to misconceptions that it is a total project commitment. James Choo and Roberto Arbulu show how lean construction can be implemented, with the level of optimization determined by what you want to achieve. Some prefab and logistics planning is better done and implemented ahead of the project starting, but lean construction can be implemented at multiple
levels. Join Choo and Arbulu to learn more about synchronizing supply with installation, logistics design, production control, prefabrication and virtual operations design, and other lean concepts you can apply to your project.
Session 4: Thursday, February 18, 2010
Integrated Project Delivery: Opportunities for Productivity
Improvement With or Without a Full IPD Contracts
Will Lichtig, McDonough, Holland & Allen PC
Gavin Keith, DPR Construction, Inc.
Will Lichtig has been heavily involved in successful facilitation of Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) efforts, including the California Prison Health Care Receivership’s $8 billion design and construction program to update and expand the state prison medical infrastructure and the Sutter Health program. Learn how overall productivity can be improved with the project team involvement, including owner, operator, designer and builder by overcoming instictive organizational impediments.
Instill the need to seek and document knowledge (A3 thinking, Concurrent Design Sets) during the design stage as well as during construction. Join Will and Gavin as they provide information on IPD contracts and implementing IPD without full risk-sharing agreements.
Gather your team for maximum benefit! Your investment is for one dial-in.
There is no limit to the number of participants at your location.
Don’t miss out on this fascinating session – register TODAY!
To Register
ONLINE
click here, for the
FAX-BACK
registration form, click here. To reserve your space by PHONE
call (301) 765-9525.
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Can't Make the Live Event? Missed Session 1? Reserve your Recorded CD Copy of Any Event on CD or, better yet, Order the Entire Series and Save 40%! Click Here.
Attendees registering for the complete series will receive the audio/webinar CD and materials from all four events!
Session 1 — (Recording of the January 21st Session):
Productivity Identification and Measurement -- Finding Areas for Substantial Gains and ROI
CD available two weeks after the event
Instructor: Dr. William Ibbs, University of California Berkeley
Listen as Dr. Ibbs provides the starting point for a productivity improvement effort: the identification and measurement process — and a review of the fundamentals of capturing labor productivity and the importance of establishing baseline models. Topics to be covered include:
- What does productivity mean and why should you care?
- Different ways to measure productivity
- Planned vs. actual productivity vs. performance ratios
- Trending and forecasting
- Measuring loss of productivity
- Productivity in design and its relationship to construction productivity, which is especially important for design-build projects.
- and much, much more!
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