Registration / Cancellation Deadline: Monday, July 6th by 12:00 Noon. We’re sorry, but there will be no add-ons or refunds after this time. Each person must register and pay to attend the meeting and dinner. Please help us save time, expense, and avoid people showing up at the last minute… plan ahead and register early! We cannot keep costs reasonable and caterers cannot plan their food without 3 days advanced notice.

Program Abstract

A panel of practitioners will feature Digby Christian from Sutter Health and  Samir Emdanat of Ghafari Associate will lead the discussion with members of the firms on this project’s Integrated Form of Agreement (IFOA). “IFOA” is the name of Sutter’s Contract for multi-party Integrated Project Delivery (IPD).

A thirty minute overview presentation will cover at a high level the various areas in which this team has been trying out new things as they plan, design, and deliver this 130 bed, 320,000 square foot hospital in the East San Francisco Bay community of Castro Valley California. ( Southeast of Oakland, east of Dublin, I-580. )  They will illustrate how they are approaching the detailed planning of design and construction of a fast-tracked project that is one of the first to use the OSHPD phased plan review process.  The overview includes:

Contract

Work Planning & Re-planning

Model based quantities

Visual control

Controlled file sharing system

Use of Big Room

Use of Remote Meeting Technology

This leaves the bulk of the meeting time for open discussion and interaction with questions from the audience. 

Value-Added Proposition (i.e., how it benefits attendees)

Attendees will leave with a better understanding of what Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) tools and methodologies that the Sutter Castro Valley IPD Team is using on the project. Team members will share the successes that they have realized / measured so far. They will explore the lessons that they have learned and provide suggestions for others starting similar projects. Attendees will also leave with an understanding of how the Sutter Castro Valley IPD Team used the OSHPD Phased Plan Review process.

Agenda:

1) Introductions: Welcome to LCI – NorCal Chapter

2) Salad Chat: Discuss what you have learned or observed about lean since the last meeting.

3) Introductions and Share Salad Chat Highlights: A "lightning round" report-out of your table’s lessons learned in using lean concepts on projects and in your offices.

4) Featured Program

5) Questions: A “lightning round” to share your comments and ask questions about the featured program.

6) Next meeting overview

7) Training opportunities – Coming events

8) Plus / Delta: Feedback to improve each meeting.

Next Meeting Preview:  Wednesday, August 12th, 2009. Join us for an animated panel presentation and discussion by the Sutter Mills Peninsula Hospital project team, status report, lessons learned, suggestions, and value stream mapping applied to start-up / commissioning, and other current best practices.       

Registration Assistance:  lci-nor-cal@leanconstruction.org

** Special Registration Discounts: If you are not an LCI Member, you may sign up today at the LCI Member rate for this event if you purchase a one-year individual membership for $200. Go to: http://lci-individual-membership.eventbrite.com to read about the benefits and sign up today. Then, enter the words "New Member" when prompted for your “individual membership number” while signing up for this event at the LCI Member rate. Thanks!

Individual LCI Members may bring one guest to each LCI event at the Member Rate. Corporate LCI Members may bring any guest at the LCI Member Rate, including employees, clients, trade partners, etc. Need help looking up your individual membership number? Please contact nor-cal-support@leanconstruction.org

The Clubhouse at Rancho Solano - Fairfield
3250 Rancho Solano Parkway
Fairfield, CA 94534

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PT)

LCI Nor Cal Community of Practice

The Lean Construction Institute (LCI), a non-profit research organization, was founded in August 1997. LCI's purpose is to develop and disseminate new knowledge regarding the management of work in design, engineering and construction for capital facilities. LCI has developed the Lean Project Delivery System© (LPDS), and the Last Planner® System of production control. Lean Construction is a production management-based approach to project delivery - a new way to design and build capital facilities. Lean production management has caused a revolution in manufacturing design, supply and assembly. Applied to construction, Lean changes the way work is done throughout the delivery process. Lean Construction extends from the objectives of a lean production system - maximize value and minimize waste - to specific techniques and applies them in a new project delivery process extending from project definition through design, supply and assembly.

The Northern California Community of Practice (CoP) of LCI  provides local lean support to owners, architects and designers, engineers, contractors, specialty contractors, and suppliers.  We invite owners and project delivery team members to meet together as a Community of Practice to learn, share, and develop a lean community in Northern California. As a regional forum for conversations among practitioners, the CoP will help create a new common sense for the AEC industry as LCI continues to build knowledge in design and construction.

Registration Assistance:  nor-cal-support@leanconstruction.org