Program and Social Program

Conference Scope
13th Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction

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Editor of proceedings: Professor Russell Kenley, Unitec New Zealand, Construction and Engineering

IGLC 13
For each area, we are interested in research and practice that supports the goals of lean production at every level of the design and delivery process. Visit the IGLC 12 site to gain an understanding of the breadth of our interests at www.iglc2004.dk/13386

Theory
What are the theories that underpin our understanding of lean construction/production and how can we leverage them to improve our understanding of what happens on construction sites. We are interested in both production and social science theory that informs our understanding of lean planning, implementation and practice.

Project delivery
Management of people and teams.
Waste is created through the lack of alignment between the parties working side by side on construction projects. This translates into dysfunctional teams, poor levels of cooperation and lost opportunities for the optimum use of resources. We are interested in research and practice in creating alignment, in creating trusting, open working relations, in developing effective teams, in effective collaboration between companies and their personnel on construction projects.

Flowline
Flowline is a new sub-topic which includes elements from Management of People and Teams, Production planning and control, IT support for Lean Construction and Buffer Management and Work Structuring. It brings these components together in an emerging methodology, which includes new technologies to support the efficient planning and control of projects. Drawn from line-of-balance technique, repetitive scheduling method, location-based scheduling, etc. the suite of techniques presents a management system for planning and control of projects to achieve work-flow through aligning production rates and buffer management.

Lean Supply Chain Management
The application of the concepts of supply chain and value stream mapping to production analysis across the supply chain as the basis for improving the efficiency of procurement and production and the development of more closely integrated supply.

Safety, Quality and Environment Management Systems New management and collaboration ideas and tools are changing planning, implementation, feedback and process improvement in relation to safety, quality and environmental management in the construction phases of project delivery. These are providing the opportunity for industry leaders to radically improve their outcomes.

Performance measurement
One of the main drivers of continuous improvement or learning is performance measurement and benchmarking, organisations that focus on key performance drivers measure their progress towards their goals continuously. Research and lean practice is eliminating waste and improving efficiency at every level of the process.

Minimising Waste
Production planning and control
New management and collaboration ideas and tools are changing production planning and cost planning and control in both the design and construction phases of project delivery. These are leading to substantial improvements in performance.

IT support for Lean Construction
IT through its rapidly developing potential for visualisation and collaboration is supporting the transformation of processes within design, planning and production. Interorganisational collaboration integrating IT across functions in the supply chain offers opportunities for process re-engineering.

Buffer Management and Work Structuring
The efficiency of processes depends on the design of the overall production system, batch design and the structure of specific work packages. We are interested in research and practice in the area of production systems design and tools that support more efficient process design.

Prefabrication, Assembly and Open Building
Production ideas such as modular production, tolerance mapping, dimensional coordination and prefabrication in lean production strategies are explored under this theme.

Maximizing Value
Product Development
This theme explores issues throughout the product development process from client briefing, design management, target costing, standardisation, mass customisation, procurement of design services and whole life approach including building in use disassembly and recycling.

Strategy and Implementation
Projects that achieve the ideals of lean production are set up to succeed from the outset. We are interested in research and practice in establishing procurement frameworks that are conducive to lean delivery, strategies for initiating lean oriented projects in both the design and construction phase, in improving our understanding of the elements of contracting strategies for alignment. We welcome examples of successful implementation presented in the lean context.

Accompanying Persons

Construction 2005 does not have an official program for Accompanying Persons. However we are pleased to announce that Mrs Marti Marosszeky and Mrs Anne Crowe have kindly offered to be the main point of contact for any Accompanying Persons wishing to get together to see the sights of Sydney, have lunch or be part of a shopping tour etc. Accompanying Persons wishing to be part of a small and informal group should contact Mrs Anne Crow at the following email address crowconsult@bigpond.com.au

Marti and Anne look forward to hearing from any Accompanying Persons wishing to meet up and see the sights of Sydney.

Social Program

HMS Pinafore / Trial By Jury (Gilbert & Sullivan)

Date: Wednesday 20 July 2005
Time: 1930 hours
Venue: Sydney Opera House
Presenter: Opera Australia

Tickets: A$107.00 per person
Final date for payment: 20 June 2005
Bookings: To reserve your tickets for this event, please proceed to the Registration page of this website.

SUNG IN ENGLISH

OPERA AUSTRALIA CHORUS and AUSTRALIAN OPERA AND BALLET ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR ANDREW GREENE / JULIA de PLATER / BRIAN CASTLES-ONION DIRECTOR STUART MAUNDER Musical theatre superstar Anthony Warlow is at the helm as the ‘right good captain’ and ‘the good judge too’ in Opera Australia’s first new productions of Gilbert and Sullivan in nearly a decade, joined by an inspired group of Opera Australia Savoyards. All aboard for Gilbert and Sullivan’s light-hearted take on how power and influence turn marriage into a mating game with more than love at stake. Trial by Jury meets TV soap opera Dynasty, while HMS Pinafore is given a gorgeous, opulent ‘Titanic’ look. A hummable, lovable (and hilarious) night at the theatre.