EGLC Meeting - Our Experience aplying the Last Planner System

The EGLC Meeting took place last Wednesday May 8th and I was there presenting. A great event, a pity not more people showed up.
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The Universitat Politècnica de Valencia and the Spanish Group for Lean Construction, hosted last Wednesday, May 8th the Industry Day of the 16th Meeting of the European Group for Lean Construction in Valencia. Me and my colleague Xavier Pallàs were asked to come and talk about our experience applying the Last Planner System at two of the projects we've been managing. Xavi is the one who has led this process on the biggest of the two projects, a 9M€ renovation project in Tarragona. I am trying to share the Prezi presentation that Xavi prepared for our lecture, but I am having some problem uploading it to the cloud, so for now, I'll just share the brief intro I did to his presentation.

Xavier is the one that has done more on this Lean journey we started back in 2011. I have supported him on the initial stages of the implementation of the Last Planner System, and applied it myself in a smaller project in Vic. Nevertheless the true potential has been seen on this later stages of Fase II of the Tarragona project, with a reduction of the construction time and a construction site that has worked much smoother, more stable and with a much better relationship amongst the different trades on site.

Next week I'll share some more pictures and insight about the meeting.

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EGLC 16 :: European Group for Lean Construction Meeting

The Meeting of the European Group for Lean Construction will take place in Valencia, Spain, next May
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The coming 8th, 9th and 10th of May, 2013, the European Group for Lean construction will hold its meeting in Valencia, Spain. Top Lean Construction Experts like Prof. Glenn Ballard (creator of the Last Planner System), Paulo Napolitano and Alan Mossman will be there sharing their experience.

To register, access this page.

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First Pull Session of the Last Planner System™

Just sharing a short summary video of our first Pull Session.
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One of the reasons I haven't been blogging in the past month is that I have been very busy at work. One of the two reasons (the second one I will explain soon if I can) I've been so busy is because we have been implementing the Last Planner System™ (LPS)at one of our projects to control the works on site.

I am not sure yet if I will share this type of information on this site in the future or if I will start a new blog on the topic somewhere else, but for now, let me share a short summary video of this 1st Pull Session. See below.



The Last Planner System™ is a set of processes to improve predictability of construction works through a series of planning and controlling conversations between the stakeholders of the project. We have been for now testing the LPS in one of our projects and we are trying to turn it soon into the standard methodology to plan an control the works on all of our construction projects.

We are proud to be of the few pioneers who are implementing this in Spain, and we will be sharing our experiences on the coming meeting of the Spanish Group for Lean Construction that will take place in Madrid on February 14th.

What you see in the video might be the first Pull Session in the history of Spain, so it might become a historic document ;-). The Pull Session is the first meeting to collaboratively agree on a schedule of the works were the Last Planners (those who actually will perform the tasks on site) share their insights and opinions on what is the best sequence to be able to do their tasks.

This is of course a very simple way of describing a Pull Session, if you need any help or more information or if you want a Construction Company that can / wants to work with this system, please do get in touch with me.

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