Practical Training in Lean Management for Building Projects

Lean Construction Management (LCM) by Drees & Sommer ensures coordinated and accurate procedures and speeds up construction work. To achieve this, the process consultant transfers the Lean success model from stationary industry to building sites. In two-day hands-on training sessions across Germany, the experts will now demonstrate how the Lean Management model of success can be applied to individual projects. The sessions will start in Stuttgart in the House of Architects on 8 and 9 February 2010.

The first practical training in "Lean Management for Construction Projects" will be held on 8 and 9 February 2010 in Stuttgart. The event will show both the theory and practice of how the model for lean processes can be transferred from industry to the organisation of a building site. During these Lean Management training sessions, participants learn how to transfer Lean Thinking to their own project. Dierk Mutschler, Member of the Executive Board of Drees & Sommer AG, and Jörg Zirlewagen, Managing Director of
Drees & Sommer Munich, will give an impulse presentation on how LCM methods were implemented in the Campeon projects in Munich and the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. The Drees & Sommer process consultants will then work out, together with the participants, a process-oriented, waste-reducing construction procedure in four simulation rounds, using a model of the office building in Oberen Waldplätzen 13 in Stuttgart-Vaihingen.

LCM reduces construction time by up to 20 percent
Waste and poorly organised processes that unnecessarily increase costs and prolong construction are found on almost every building site. Often, for example due to wrong delivery times, incorrect volumes or wrong materials delivered, the building materials have already been handled several times before the actual process - for which the developer is paying - has begun. To identify inefficient processes, the process consultants at Drees & Sommer work together with the staff directly on site to analyse and eliminate the root cause of the waste. Through daily visual site inspections, the material, personnel and equipment required on site may be planned ahead as needed and disruptions anticipated and eliminated. This approach results in more secure project completion without increased demand for inspection. Through LCM, total construction times can be reduced by up to 20 percent.

Practical training: Lean Management for Construction Projects
The events take place at the following locations:
Stuttgart, 8 and 9 February 2010; Cologne, 26 and 27 April 2010; Hamburg, 29 and 30 June 2010; Berlin, 13 and 14 September 2010.

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