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ne of the leading Lean Construction conferences in the world, Lean Construction Ireland 2021 National Conference brought together a national community of learning and practice along with welcoming friends from all around the globe. The conference included presentations and plenary discussions from clients/owners, their professional service providers, contractors and their associated supply chain, Lean academics and Lean service providers. The event was structured around Lean Construction Ireland’s strategic breakthrough objectives of clients, contractual processes, and capability development, and its streamed presentations were kept succinct so as to optimise the opportunities for speaker and audience engagement and questions and answers.
Delivering Construction Projects Better, Faster & Together! On 3 November 2021 over 400 representatives from the Irish construction industry attended the Lean Construction Ireland national virtual conference – this is 10% up on the 2020 event.
Opportunity Attending delegates had the opportunity to learn about Lean in construction from national and international industry leaders, on how they can leverage the benefits of Lean concepts to deliver quality projects that are safer, faster and more profitable – leading to increased stakeholder satisfaction and customer value for money. The aim of the conference is to bring together leading experts in the field of Lean Construction from the Irish and international communities - to both inspire and challenge the industry to implement Lean thinking and practices on their public and private construction projects.
Maximise One of Europe’s largest Lean construction conferences, the 2021 event was structured in a way to maximise the time available and remove waste – providing attendees with multiple stream options which allowed for interactive engagement sessions; 6 parallel streams focused on: • • • •
Clients Leading Lean Adoption Lean and Contractual Processes ESG & Quality Capability Development
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collaborative approaches where projects are Delivered Better, Faster and Together Increased regulation around construction and the built environment, combined with international competition and the impact of Covid-19 has reaffirmed the importance of improving efficiencies to reduce project delivery costs and delays whilst ensuring the highest build quality is maintained. With many Irish companies in the Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector seeking to better understand those Lean tools and techniques that are available to assist deliver projects in a more efficient manner, as well as wanting to understand how these Lean tools and techniques are deployed and utilised, Lean Construction Ireland has developed a suite of resources that will assist companies understand and embrace Lean to deliver projects better and faster, and through effective teamwork and collaboration realise value for all involved in the project delivery process.
Lean Construction Ireland (LCi) is a not-forprofit, membership-based organisation with a vision to transform the Irish construction sector through the adoption of Lean thinking and practices as part of the design and construction process, and move the industry towards more efficient, cost effective and
Some of these resources include: The LCi Lean Pass Course, LCi Annual Book of Cases, LCi Annual Conference – all of which are available free of charge at www.leanconstructionireland.ie
• Modern Methods of Construction • Digitalisation Enabled Productivity Sponsors of the LCi 2021 national conference included; Ardmac, Autodesk, Crystal Lean Solutions, Exyte, Mace, Sisk Group, Philip Lee, Procore, Fluor, BAM, Jacobs, DPS and Jones Engineering. Featured among keynote speakers were: Minister Darragh O’Brien, New Children’s Hospital Project, Grangegorman Development Agency, Sutter Health, King’s College London, Waterford Institute of Technology, plus many more. Lean Construction Ireland, with over 1,700 members, continues to deliver practical support and knowledge to the Irish construction industry as more and more companies embrace Lean thinking and practices to deliver efficiencies within their projects as well as to achieve operational improvements within their organisations.
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