Introduction to The Lean Construction Training and Development Day
The Lean Construction Training and Development Day is designed to increase your knowledge and experience of implementing Lean by digging down and offering intensive work-based skills development sessions as well as an introduction to Lean Construction, to those entirely new to the practice.
Led by expert Lean practitioners, these intensive ‘deep-dive’ workshops will enhance your knowledge base, giving you the inspiration and confidence to drive Lean Construction forward in the workplace, and deliver greater value across your projects.
Using tools and techniques readily deployed on LCI-UK’s highly successful ‘Lean Construction Development Pathway’ programme you will learn essential skills to enable you to become an even better Lean practitioner.
Programme
Delegates can choose which training session to attend, select one morning and one afternoon session from those listed below.
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Training Room 1 |
Training Room 2 |
Training Room 3 |
08:00 |
Registration and networking breakfast |
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09:00 |
Introduction to Lean |
Problem solving, including choosing by advantages |
Assessing the value & benefits of improvement projects |
Are you curious to find out how lean principles, tools and techniques can dramatically improve productivity in design and construction and learn why projects delivered with a high lean intensity are 3x more likely to be ahead of schedule and 2x more likely to be under budget? If so, join Richard John and Paul Ebbs in this introduction to Lean Project Delivery. The workshop is very hands-on, interactive and fun through a mixture of simulations, multi-media presentations and group discussions. Following this workshop you will be able to: • Appreciate how lean principles apply to design and construction • Be aware of the latest lean tools and techniques being applied to lean projects • Understand where you can find out more information to start (or continue) your lean journey |
A practical appreciation of the ways in which Lean and collaborative facilitation can help those involved in the construction and operation of infrastructure, in other words: ‘I can do that.’ This session is an introduction to a range of problem solving approaches and tools across varying levels of complexity. It will focus on how they can be applied in the unique design and construction industry environment. On completion of this workshop you will be able to: • understand the underlying philosophy of Lean problem solving |
Developing a UK Construction Industry Improvement Benefits Standard (ROI) – A difficult topic • The Lean Construction Institute UK is currently collaborating with Highway England, CITB and six first tier suppliers on live projects to establish a comprehensive standard and approach to assessing, reporting and managing the benefits of continuous improvement on construction projects. |
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Trainer: Paul Ebbs, Lean Coach at WSP/ Richard John, Technical Director at WSP |
Trainers: Chris Wearne FICE, Head of LEAN & Collaborative Planning/ Robin Hendrich, Head of Business Solutions, Strategic Consulting |
Trainer: Brian Swain |
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10:30 |
Networking coffee break |
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11:00 |
Morning training continued |
Morning training continued |
Morning training continued |
12:30 |
Networking lunch |
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Training Room 1 |
Training Room 2 |
Training Room 3 |
13:30 | High performance using end to end value stream mapping | How to embed a Lean Culture on a major project |
Does Your Project Have a Pulse? Wrestling workflow into submission using Takt Time Pull |
This session introduces the concept of Value Stream Mapping (VSM) as a core and essential 'Lean' tool and approach for successful continuous improvement. VSM, when aligned to collaborative planning, becomes a powerful, effective problem solving process for all construction project for eliminating waste and improving productivity in terms of quality, cost, delivery and safety. Learn by doing: To embed the learning delegates will be invited to prepare a value stream map following a prescribed process and then challenged to come up with improvement ideas to reduce the overall cycle time. Rob Sanger & Neal Symmons will facilitate the session providing guidance on structure and method with a goal to eliminate waste in the process |
Why should I create & maintain a Lean Culture on a construction project? Is it worth my time and effort? Establishing a common, high performance culture across all aspects of a major construction project, only happens when skilled managers engage every person on that project in an individual and collective development engagement process. Nicole Preston will show you why it is worth your time and effort, using examples of highly successful lean projects and the benefits that could be realised by creating and embedding a lean culture • How to roll out a Lean Strategy • How to embed a lean culture • 4 examples of successful Lean projects • Lessons learnt/Benefits of maintaining a lean culture • Benefits realisation through lean implementation |
This session is aimed at site, construction, project and design managers who already have some experience of collaborative planning/Last Planner System. Using a combination of simulation and case studies we will explore the impact of variation on the sequence and logic of construction work and how to use location, batching and collaboration to balance workload and create synchronised flow. On completion you will take away 3 things to apply on your projects immediately and have a clear vision of an improved future state that you and your teams can work towards. | |
Trainer: Rob Sanger, Highways Division Lean Manager at BAM Nuttall / Neal Symmons, Lean Technical Manager at Highways England | Trainer: Nicole Preston, Head of Operational Excellence, A14 | Trainer: Christine Pasquire Professor of Lean Project Management Centre for Lean Projects at Nottingham Trent University and Dr Peter Court, Takt Consultancy |
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15:00 |
Networking coffee break |
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15:30 |
Afternoon training continued |
Afternoon training continued |
Afternoon training continued |
17:00 |
Close of day |
Trainers

Christine Pasquire
Professor of Lean Project Management. Centre for Lean Projects at
Nottingham Trent University

Nicole Preston
Head of Operational Excellence (A14)
Balfour Beatty, A14 Integrated Delivery Team
Christine Pasquire
Professor of Lean Project Management. Centre for Lean Projects at
Nottingham Trent University
Christine Pasquire has a BSc Quantity Surveying, a PhD in Construction Management and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. One of the original four directors of LCI UK Ltd, Christine has been a long standing advocate, researcher and teacher of Lean Construction.
She is currently Professor of Lean Project Management in the Centre for Lean Projects at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Christine’s route to lean began 20 years ago with research into offsite manufacturing particularly in the Building Services sector and has grown to encompass the practicalities of lean implementation in both project and organisational transformation. Current research projects include applications of Takt and other forms of lean construction planning; measurement of the impact of Lean on human performance; investigations into waste that is institutionalised within the systems and structures of design and construction and developing pathways for common understanding as a flow.
She has published over 110 peer reviewed papers and completed in excess of £2,000,000 of funded research work in the field of construction management.
Nicole Preston
Head of Operational Excellence (A14)
Balfour Beatty, A14 Integrated Delivery Team
Nicole has worked as a Civil Engineer for Balfour Beatty for 10 years. She started as a Section Engineer in 2009 working her way up the Engineers grades, now achieving Head of Operational Excellence for Balfour Beatty Southern Regional Investment Programme. She is lucky enough to be managing Lean on the A14, the country’s largest infrastructure project, valued at £1.5b.
Since she arrived on the A14 project three years ago, she has led the continuous improvement culture, embedding the Operational Excellence Strategy, starting with rolling out a new ideas process, encouraging improved innovative ways of working, giving everyone the ability to add value and reduce costs for all parties involved. She then linked this into the Risk and Opportunity process, ensuring all good ideas/efficiencies have business cases and commercially assured by the client.
The aim of Nicole's Operational Excellence team on the A14 is to lower operational risk and lower operating costs, creating value for customers, supply chain and stakeholders, whilst beholding the highest safety and quality standards. Operational Excellence goes beyond the benefits model of improvement, towards a long-term change in organisation culture. By empowering the delivery team to identify a smarter way of working enables cost savings to be realised, and critical programme demands met or improved upon. Through a Lean methodology using Lean tools and techniques to enable bottlenecks to be identified, measured and mitigated. Nicole lead a team that focused on meeting customer expectation through continuous improvement of the operational delivery, mapping construction processes, finding the root cause for non-completion and error proofing repeated activity. It is described as doing the right thing, the right way, every time, reducing waste and increasing productivity.
Nicole has led the A14 project through ISO44001 accreditation, through strong project collaborative relationships, scoring industry high Collaborative Performance Framework (CPF) scores and hitting the Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). Proving they are world class and industry leading.
Robin Hendrich
Head of Business Solutions, Strategic Consulting
Jacobs
Robin is an experienced efficiency expert, LEAN practitioner and leader who brings innovative thinking and standardised production style operations management to complex projects and programmes. She also brings extensive transformation and change experience, leading teams and projects to high performance and operational excellence.
Her philosophy is that people want to do a good job, and that it is her job to listen, clear the way and provide them with the tools to do so. This drives the priorities of transparency and visual management as a tool for uncovering waste and process breakdowns and driving safe ways of working and being.
She has implemented Lean across sectors including buildings, highways, nuclear, aviation and advanced facilities as well as across geographies including the US, the UK and in Europe as well.
Chris Wearne FICE
Head of LEAN & Collaborative Planning
Jacobs
Chris Wearne, FICE, is a Chartered Civil Engineer who has been at the forefront of the effort to adapt LEAN techniques to infrastructure Projects. Prior to working in Lean he accumulated over 25 years Project Management experience in highways, heavy civils and waterways, in Construction, Design and Client roles. Since 2010 he has successfully introduced Lean techniques such as Process Improvement, Collaborative Planning and Choosing By Advantages into work for major clients such as Highways England, Environment Agency, United Utilities, Thames Tideway and the Qatar Government. He has developed several original applications of LEAN techniques to infrastructure and is recognised as a specialist trainer.
Brian Swain
Chairman
The Lean Construction Institute UK
Brian Swain is Chairman of The Lean Construction Institute UK, and an organisational development consultant with twenty five years’ experience working in construction, manufacturing and service companies throughout the UK and Western Europe.
He often typifies his approach as individual, organisational and corporate coaching.
Brian’s work is focused on the Lean Transformation of companies through team building and personal development within the context of process management, continuous improvement and organisational design. He works at all levels in large and small organisations but with a primary focus on Value Stream Development in regard to a company’s strategic and operational imperatives.
Additionally, Brian has project managed and co-authored textbooks and manuals for work-based management development. He is a founding Director of Rubicon Associates, Brian Swain Ltd, Lean Construction International and The Lean Construction Institute UK (LCI-UK).
Rob Sanger
Highways Division Lean Manager
BAM Nuttall
Rob has been a Lean Manager for BAM Nuttall for 5 years and
has developed a successful team of Lean practitioners supporting
Highways Schemes.
He has a passion for Lean and facilitates lean and collaborative
planning workshops, delivers lean training, co-ordinates HELMA
and SLCA assessments as well as site responsibilities for project
controls and Collaborative Performance Framework (CPF).
Prior to this role he had 24 years of engineering and project
management experience with BAM working in Highways, Rail,
Water, Coastal protection and for private developers.
This broad based site experience has given him a solid
foundation, understanding the challenges we face in construction
resulting in a very practical approach to implementing lean tools
and techniques on site.
Neal Symmons
Lean Technical Manager
Highways England
I am a highly experienced and disciplined Civil Engineer and Continuous Improvement leader, with a proven track record having worked on and led a variety of multi-million pound major schemes in the United Kingdom and the Middle East.
I have over 10 years’ experience in the deployment of Lean-Sigma in the construction industry gained working for both Contractors, Consultants and large government Clients. My knowledge base covers: Highways; Airfields and airports; Retail and Technology Park design; Residential Layout design; Restaurant and Hotel designs; Large scale agricultural developments; environmental engineering and waste management facilities. I am an accredited Black belt in Lean, Six Sigma and TRIZ with major litigation leadership and professional witness experience.
Paul Ebbs
Lean Coach
WSP
Paul is an advocate of integrating project teams and implementing lean through action-research to improve productivity. He has worked on a variety of infrastructure, decommissioning, healthcare, residential, bio-tech and educational projects as a tradesman, project manager, lean coach and researcher. Paul’s currently supporting WSP and external teams start and sustain their lean journeys. He is passionate about sharing current best practice and research in Lean Project Delivery around the globe and is co-author of ‘A Facilitator’s Guide to the Last Planner® System’, International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) conference papers, blogs and industry articles. Paul was chair of the 2019 IGLC annual conference in Ireland and is a steering committee member of Lean in Public Sector. He co-founded Lean Construction Ireland in 2014 and the Construction Innovation Lab in 2013.
Richard John
Technical Director
WSP
A Continuous Improvement Leader with over 15 years’ experience in Business Transformation, Change Delivery and Programme Management. A proven track record of successfully delivering and implementing complex transformation programmes within the engineering, communication, financial services and transportation sectors. Leading global dispersed teams of change agents to successful certification including Brazil, Poland, Asia Pacific region and the US. A highly accredited change professional including Certified Black Belt, Certified Master Black Belt, University of Warwick Accredited Green Belt trainer, ISO 18404 accredited Lean Practitioner and Robotics Process Automation Business Analysts
Dr. Peter Court
MEP Delivery Leader
Takt Consultancy
Peter is an MEP delivery leader and has an Engineering Doctorate in Lean Construction. With over 40 years in the Construction Industry, Peter has delivered a wide variety of projects across various sectors both in the UK and overseas, including Australia and the French speaking province of Quebec in Canada.
Peter is a professional and highly motivated engineer, project leader and lean construction practitioner (and consultant) with a track record of achievement across a portfolio of large, complex multi-discipline within the building, civil engineering and transportation sectors, and has led numerous Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health (MEP) projects from bid stage to successful handover.
Peter’s passion is to share and apply the knowledge he’s gained and contributed to lean principles and methodologies to the projects he delivers, to drive efficiencies in cost, labour and productivity, and to improve current health and safety performance, thus transforming the way we construct. As such, in 2017, Peter decided to build his own specialist consultancy business to widen the application of lean thinking into MEP project delivery.
Rob Andrewes
Lean Area Manager.
Highways England
Rob is an experienced Lean expert and has been working as a Lean Practitioner for 12 years. He has been working for Highways England for the past 6 years and, prior to that, worked for the Department of Work and Pensions.
Rob supports Lean projects and skills development both within Highways England and also in the Supply Chain, conducting a variety of Lean assessments, delivering Lean improvement projects and delivering a range of training events.
Over the years Rob has trained and coached a large number of staff in Lean continuous improvement techniques and is passionate about the impact Lean can have on an organisation’s people – giving them not just the power to change, but the power to see the change that is needed.
Why / Who attends
The training day will enhance your knowledge base of lean techniques, giving you the inspiration and confidence to drive Lean Construction forward in the workplace and deliver greater value across your projects. There will also be further opportunities to network and to share knowledge and practices with fellow Lean practitioners on an informal basis.
Job titles
- Project Directors & Senior Project Managers
- Commercial Leads
- Tier 1 Suppliers & Sub-Contractors Lean Practitioners
- Business Unit Directors
- Industry Experts
Sponsors / Partners
We are Royal BAM Group one of Europe’s largest contractors, established for more than 150 years. We deliver exceptional engineering, construction and investment services across private and public sector projects, in the UK and abroad. BAM Nuttall is one of 10 operating companies specialising in Civil Engineering in the UK. Our projects range from road, rail and airports, to marine, tunnelling, and energy schemes. We’re driven by a desire to make a difference to communities, the environment and people’s lives. Our goal is to build sustainable infrastructure that helps economic growth and allows us be kind to our planet – today and in the future.
At BAM, we do things differently, we’re a catalyst for change across the industry. We continually seek new ways to improve productivity, sustainability and safety. We understand the importance of Lean thinking and practice Lean, to increase value for the customer and support future sustainability of BAM. We’re unrelenting in our drive to eliminate waste – wasted time, effort and materials. Eliminating waste creates value for everything we do. Tasks taking less time, and teams getting it right first time, makes working at BAM safer, more enjoyable and fulfilling for our people. And customers learn about, and experience, delivering value, when working in partnership with BAM.
Galliford Try is a FTSE 250 business and one of the UK's leading housebuilding, regeneration and construction groups with revenues of £2.8billion.
We operate through three strong businesses: Linden Homes, Galliford Try Partnerships and Construction & Investments. We make an important contribution to meeting the demand for new homes in the private and affordable homes sectors, regenerating neighbourhoods and working to improve the UK’s built environment, delivering positive, lasting change for the communities we work in on behalf of our clients.
Our company is founded on our values of excellence, passion, integrity and collaboration, and our vision is to be leaders in the construction of a sustainable future.
Orbital Fasteners are the largest and marketing leading INDEPENDENT distributor of fixings, fasteners, hand and power tools, handrail systems, channel and bracketry and site consumables.
Strategically located just off Junction 17 or 18 of the M25, they offer guaranteed NEXT DAY delivery in to Central London and the neighbouring Home Counties on our their fleet of vehicles.
They deliver nationally on DPD or DX couriers and have a “CLICK AND COLLECT” service available from 7.00AM Monday – Friday from their Trade Counter in Watford.
With over 27,000 product lines, unmatchable customer service and a great sales team with excellent product knowledge and technical knowhow, you can entrust Orbital Fasteners with all your fixings, fastener and site consumable requirements.”
We're invested in you and your success.
What we do is more than a job, we work every day to make the world better for all. Everything we do – from addressing water scarcity and aging infrastructure to ensuring access to life-saving therapies and protecting against sophisticated cyberattacks – is more than projects outlined in proposal requests. They’re our challenges as human beings, too.
That’s why we bring a thoughtful and collaborative approach to every one of our partnerships. We know we can help our partners make a positive impact on the world. We lead large project teams with many different companies and agencies – but make sure everyone’s voice has a chance to be heard and respected.
Our purpose is to improve people’s lives by delivering integrated leading edge smart infrastructure solutions to meet national needs across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets.
Bourton Group is an operational management consultancy who help their clients transform and improve their ways of working. For over 50 years they have listened closely to their clients to understand their needs and collaborated to ‘help make their business better’.
As experts in business transformation and change management they engage leaders and teams and drive measurable and sustainable improvement in business processes and people performance.
They make operations more efficient, eliminating waste and increasing customer satisfaction by using Lean and Six Sigma methods and by building our clients ability to carry on improving.
In its 5th year, UK Construction Week (UKCW) takes place on 8-10 October and brings together all stakeholders within the built environment across design, build and supply; promoting innovation, projects, learning and networking.
As the largest event dedicated to knowledge sharing, best practice, problem solving and product sourcing, it is the environment for the whole industry to discover, develop, discuss and do business; providing all the answers for how we build for our future. UKCW is FREE to attend and welcomes 650+ exhibitors, 35,000 visitors, over 300 expert speaker line-up and over 150 hours of CPD content.
With a single registration, visitors can enter the co-located sections including: Build, Building Tech, Civils, Energy & HVAC, Surface & Materials, Timber and Grand Designs Live (free entry is for 9-10 October only) and newly launched Concrete Expo (8-9 October only).
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