The Texas A&M College of Architecture’s Center for Housing and Urban Development hosted the first Texas Lean Construction Summit June 30 - July 2 at the College Station Hilton Hotel & Conference Center.
Lean construction, hailed as a new way to design and build capital facilities, emphasizes maximum value and minimum waste applied to specific techniques and applies them in a new project delivery process.
The conference was aimed at those responsible for and interested in the management and improvement of work in design and construction, managers or project team members, suppliers, and organizations in the construction-related industries that support design and construction activities.
CHUD hosted the event in partnership with Linbeck, an international Houston-based construction company, FIATECH, a consortium of organizations in the capital projects industry, and the nonprofit Lean Construction Institute.
Lean construction, according to the event website, challenges the belief that there must always be a trade between time, cost and quality and is particularly useful on complex, uncertain, and quick projects.
Participants in this first-of-its-kind summit in Texas were exposed a theoretical foundation for lean construction, and offered a roadmap for its implementation.
