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Lean Construction and the Last Planner System

A practical course for site managers, planners, engineers, foremen and subcontractor supervisors on construction, EPC and oil and gas projects. Learn why a site needs its own form of Lean, how to run each level of the Last Planner System from pull planning and constraint logs to weekly commitments, daily huddles and Percent Plan Complete, and how to plan repetitive work in takt zones. It also covers prefabrication, the Lean site, collaborative contracts, target value design and how to introduce the method on a project; it awards no belt or certification.

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Modules
8
Lessons
35
Duration
7h 12m
Level
Intermediate
Quizzes
8 graded

Course content

8 modules · 35 lessons · 7h 12m

Who this course is for and how it fits together, why a construction project is a temporary production system with high variability and many trades, the wastes of a construction site, and the transformation-flow-value view of production.

  • Construction as a Temporary Production System
    Preview
    12 min
  • Variability, Many Trades and Unreliable Plans12 min
  • The Wastes of a Construction Site12 min
  • Transformation, Flow and Value12 min
  • Why construction needs its own Lean — quiz6 questions · pass 70%

Topics covered

Lean Construction
Last Planner System
Pull Planning
Takt Planning
Percent Plan Complete
Construction Planning

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