2. Conference Topics

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The conference will be organized around 13 championships chosen by the 11th conference. The champions will participate in the review process and will organize and chair the paper presentation in their session as well.

Although the Conference is organized around the championships, any paper related to Lean Construction may be submitted.

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	THEORY
1.	Theory
	(Lauri Koskela, Sven Bertelsen and Carlos Bosch)
	IGLC 12 White Paper - Theory (7.7 KB)
	Refinement of operations management theories from the point of view of construction and project management (for example: transformation, flow and value generation oriented theories) Social science theories (for example: group dynamics, social capital, communication, cognition) Novel theoretical angles (for example: systems dynamics, complexity, chaos) Consolidation of the theoretical foundation of construction/project management
	IMPLEMENTATION AND LABOR RELATIONS
2.	Labor and Trades Management
	(Remo Matrionni and Gunde Odgaard)
	How to help develop lean skills Examples from companies that have implemented lean Opportunities for creating conversation and alignment Why are some things working and others are not? Building trust among team members from different companies Contracting strategies for alignment
3.	Implementation
	(Louis Alarcon and Juan Vasquez)
	Human issues and soft skills Team building down to craftsman communication Skills Information flows - what is working and how do we do it in the process of making buildings Management of innovation Change management Negotiation, conflict resolution Lean at the building site How to fix the whole system Put (local) "fix" into broader context Communicate the philosophy How to get the word out to others?
4.	Performance measurement
	(Takis Mitropoulos)
	IGLC 12 Champions Statement - Performance Measurement (8.9 KB)
	Benchmarking and implementation methods and practices What are performance measures? E.g. shareholder value Differentiation and realistic values
5.	IT support for Lean Construction
	(Lucio Soibelman and Vishnu P. Arakere)
	Develop IT methodologies, tools and systems that support the main Lean Construction goals and concepts: Focus on technology not being covered by the existing IT world/conference Research issues - study, track, optimize and management of materials, information and labor flows via: Simulation, modeling & optimization tools Sensors, GPS tools, scanning technology, wireless computing and RF ID's
	MANAGING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
6.	Commercial Management of Projects
	(Glenn Ballard and Steffen Goth)
	IGLC 12 White Paper - Project Financial Management (22 KB)
	Contractual structures & incentives Buy/Make decision making Designing to target cost
7.	Production Control
	(Carlos Formoso and Marton Marosszeky)
	IGLC 12 White Paper - Production Control (86 KB)
	$, quality, time learning Links to materials management Improving PPC
8.	Safety, Quality and Environment
	(Greg Howell)
	Safety improvement efforts all start from some underlying theory of accidents and from these efforts made for their prevention. Current approaches to accident prevention mostly propose that accidents happen because people are unmotivated and untrained. As a result people engage in unsafe behavior or encounter unsafe conditions. A different model based more in system dynamics has been put forward by Jens Rasmussen and adapted for construction in previous IGLC papers. IGLC 2004 offers us the opportunity to sharpen the distinctions raised in each approach and thus to advance both theory and practice. In this light, we invite authors in the Safety Track for IGLC 2004 to contrast the traditional worker centric theories with emerging approaches such as proposed by Rasmussen in Cognitive Systems Theory and as put forward in previous IGLC papers. This approach is not meant to limit the range of approaches to be discussed but rather to force us all to confront what we really believe and why. Authors are invited to present clearly and defend forcefully their most effective theories, compare different theories (such as Rasmussen’s model and the high reliability organizations), and identify and/or report on experiments that demonstrate these theories in action. Authors taking any stance are asked to explore in the paper the possible validity of other theories.
	FLOW MANAGEMENT
9.	Buffer Management and Work Structuring
	(Michael Horman)
	Current practices and what makes the happen from local perspective
10.	Supply Chain Management and Lean
	(Bill O'Brien and Kerry London)
	Creating long term relations Project procurement Which work best with lean
	OFF SITE MANUFACTURING AND SITE INSTALLATION
11.	Prefabrication and Assembly
	(Glenn Ballard and Owen Matthews)
	IGLC 12 White Paper - Prefabrication and Assembly (18 KB)
	Designing for prefabrication and assembly Prefabrication and modularization strategies Continuous flow assembly processes
12.	Open Building and Lean
	(Yves Cuperus and Iris Tommelein)
	Tolerances
	VALUE FLOW
13.	Product Development
	(Mike Kagioglou, Carlos Formoso and Stephen Emmitt)
	IGLC 12 White Paper - Product Development (114 KB)
	The focus here is on product development and design management within a lean framework:
	Design management Lean design - reducing downstream variability Collaboration and integration Designing to target costing Information management Capturing client requirements Values and client briefing Procurement and process management Outsourcing of design Standardisation and mass production Performance requirements Sustainability and the lean philosophy Whole life approach Building in use Disassembly and recovery management