Lean Construction & Automation in Infrastructure Workshop

• April 24, 2007: 7:00am - April 25, 2007: 3:00pm
• More Information: Registration Site
• Contact: travisr@citris-uc.org
• Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley

 

This is a two day workshop that looks at the issues and opportunities in creating a more efficiently built infrastructure. Participants and speakers include government officials, contractors, technology firms and researchers. This workshop intends to facilitate a conversation that leads to a common understanding of issues, the role of technology, procurement models, and the problems preventing their adoption in the industry.

Conference Goals: Technology and processes are often developed separately. New technology innovations that are pushed onto the market often fail to make an impact. In the conference, owners, designers, contractors, researchers and technology developers share their knowledge from both sides of view – Lean Construction and Automation Technology. During the workshop participants will:

· Share information on Lean Construction and the latest innovations in automation technology in infrastructure

· Expand the insight of the participants on how to design project production systems for infra projects

· Find new potential common research areas

· Create new paradigms for:

- Process development

- Technology development

- Business development and procurement

- New services for users/costumers

 

The goal of the workshop is to converge the two points of views, Lean Construction and Automation, for developing infra project production systems so that the projects will

· Decrease variation in production

· Decrease waste

· Encourage continuous development of new technologies

· Increase the productivity of the organizations

· Add value to the costumers

 

Outcome:

Joint understanding and agreement on the problems in the industry

Creation of a Industry Working Group with a plan for future action

White Paper report on workshop discussions

 

Hypothesis: The principles drawn from Lean Production Management can be applied to construction industry in general, and infrastructure projects in particular, through techniques tailored for application over the life of a project. Taken together these principles and techniques form the basis for a Lean Project Delivery System.™

Automation of technologies and standardization of processes are the tools for improving productivity and quality and reducing waste. In Infra sector automation means that 3D models have to be carried out from the beginning of a construction project to the end of the project (as–built model).

 

Please register for the workshop here: Registration Site

 

 

 

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Agenda for April 24, 2007

290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley

 

8:00 a.m.

 

Lean Construction: Principles and Experiences

Chair: Dr. Glenn Ballard

8:30 – 9:10 Introduction to Lean Construction: Dr. Glenn Ballard, UCB P2SL

9:20 – 10:30 Lean Construction in Practice: Andrew G Apostolik, Sundt Construction Inc.

Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:30 Towards automation - How to change the models of procurement: Markku Tervo, Finnish Road Administration

11:30 - 12:15 Information systems in Infra Sector: Dr. Arto Kiviniemi, Pekka Montin Rapal

 

12:15 – 1:00 Lunch Break

 

Automation in infrastructure

Chair: Dr. Rauno Heikkila/ Dr. Ty Lasky

1:00 - 1:30 Automation in construction, process model and emamples: Dr. Rauno Heikkila, Pekka Kilpelainen

1:30 - 2:00 Data Driven Automation in Highway Maintenance and Construction: Prof. Bahram Ravani

Coffee Break

2:15 - 4:15 Technology companies present: Tekla, WSP, Andament, and Trimble

4:15 – 5:00 Open discussion: Dr. Glenn Ballard

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Agenda for April 25, 2007

Clark Kerr Campus, UC Berkeley

 

Visions and practices

Chair: Dr. Arto Kiviniemi

8:00 - 8:45 Owners and Lean Construction Revolution: Dave Pixley, Sutter Health

8:45 - 9:45 Integrated agreements for Lean Project Delivery: Will Lichtig, McDonald Holland &Allen, PC

Coffee Break

10:00 - 11:20 Contractors and Lean Construction: Dean Reed, DPR, Paul Reiser, Boldt

11:20 - 12:15 Automation in practice: Lauri Merikallio and Mika Jaakkola, Destia

11:15 - 12:15 Information systems in Infrastructure: Dr. Arto Kiviniemi, VTT, Pekka Montin, Rapal

12:15 – 1:30 Lunch break

 

What we have heard and learned

Chair: Dr. Glenn Ballard

1:30 - 3:00 Invited conclusions and impressions from

 

3:15 - 4:00 Round table/action plan for future: Dr. Glenn Ballard

 

Presentations