Modules
The ‘Introduction to Lean Construction’ course provides you a basic understanding of Lean principles and an awareness of the many established Lean tools and techniques, and how you can apply them to improve construction.
Once you understand the basics, you define your own learning pathway through delivering improvement projects based on you needs and opportunities. Our Instructors will help you plan how you can use these methods to resolve your current challenges and drive improvements on your project or business.
The conceptual building blocks below show areas in which you might focus your improvement efforts.
The Building Blocks of Lean Construction
Focus areas for learning and improvement projects
Introduction to Lean Construction
Your first step in becoming a Lean practionioner!
Learn about Lean Principals, tools and techniques, and how they can be used to lead continuous improvement. Then plan out your next steps.
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Core
Optimise
Leadership
Big Room
Establish a visual management big room, routines and behaviours as a foundation to drive improvement.
Last Planner System
Improve production reliability for better time and cost outcomes through collaborative planning
Practical Problem Solving
Provide teams a collaborative and structured approach to solve problems
Lean Design
Target Value Design
Produce a design that delivers the best value to the owner while staying within the target budget.
Lean and BIM / DE
Minimise project waste and improve collaboration by combining your Lean and BIM / Digital Engineering efforts.
Modular Construction
Enhance efficiency, reduces costs, and accelerates timelines by prefabricating components offsite for quick assembly
System Design
Process design for better business systems
Value Stream Mapping
Optimise your whole operations
Automation and Technology
Use automation and technologies to avoid abnormalities and empower people
Just-In-Time
The right products in the right quantity, at the right time
Pull Production
Production fundamentals to unblock your site activity and start creating flow
Takt Time
Location-based production design and management to optimise project delivery
Stabilise Operations
Deliver consistent results across your operations through variation control and standardisation
Policy Deployment
Align your organisation's strategic goals with its day-to-day operations, ensuring that every team member contributes to achieving long-term objectives through continuous improvement and effective resource management.
Procuring for System Change
Set yourself up for success by using procurement models proven to enhance efficiency, reduce waste, and improve collaboration among stakeholders, leading to cost savings and timely project delivery. Example models to enable better deployment of Lean include Alliance, Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Progressive Design-Build (PDB).
Decision Making
Make decisions easier, more transparent, objective, and effective, using the 'Choosing By Advantages' method.