JUNE 2016NEWSLETTER | Volume 1

A TWO DAYS MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (MDP) ON “APPLICATION OF LEAN CONSTRUCTION CONCEPT FOR PROJECT PROFITABILITY” WAS CONDUCTED ON 22ND & 23RD APRIL, 2016 BY NICMAR - CISC HYDERABAD.

Various topics were delivered by Venkatesan

Renganaidu, Prof. Ramana, Prof. V.R.K

Murthy, Prof. K.Srinivas (all from NICMAR) and Er

Tony Jacob , PMP (Director, Constask

Management Solutions)

The objective of the programme is to spread the Lean Construction approach to manage and improve construction processes with minimum cost and maximum value considering the customer needs. Thus bring down the prevailing inefficiencies and minimize the wastages.

2 days MDP Program byNICMAR Hyderabad

In-spite of short notice, the programme is attended by a medium size group from divergent background such as from developer organization, contract organizations, consulting organization and faculty from educational institutes.

The programme covered the topics such as Introduction

E V E N T S U P D A T Eto Lean Concept, Application of Lean Thinking in Construction, Importance of Lean Culture, Lean Project Delivery System (LPDS), Value Stream Mapping and Exposure to various Lean techniques along with Application of Lean tools such as Last Planner and Value stream mapping with multiple case studies. Finally the practical way of implementing the Lean Construction was discussed.

All the sessions went very interactive and live. Participants gave very good feedback expressing that the course is very informative and useful. Also they expressed their interest in implementing the Lean Construction concepts and the learning immediately at their works.

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Mr. V. K. Natarajan from L&T highlighted how his site is successfully operating in a measurement based payment system and how it turned out to be a win win situation for the contractor and labour crew provided-

EVENTS

ILCE CHENNAIMONTHLY MEETINGThe ILCE Chennai Chapter's April meeting saw an active discussion on payment to sub-contractors. Summary of the meeting below. The meeting in May will be a discussion on "Critical Chain Project Management" and its application to managing construction projects.

Mr. Ishaan from KSV constructions presented the problems that he is facing with retaining labour crews and getting work done profitably. He was experimenting with a time and

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• All gangs are evenly loaded on all days

• work front is made available for all the crews in a timely manner

• Materials, drawings are all made available well in advance

• On time payment is made and also address crew's concern of non profitable work in certain areas.

pay Vs measure and pay model - each having its own pros and cons. The afternoon was spent discussing

the same with participants sharing their experiences and offering suggestions.

He ensures smooth functioning of this site with a sunrise meeting to agree on the targets for the day and an afternoon meeting he tries to address sub-contractor's constraints and issues. The bottom line is, if the crew is confident that they can make consistent (and more) money, they will agree to a measurement based system.

An important point raised by Prof. Raghavan is that the unit of measure (UOM) should be derived keeping in

mind the over all progress of the site rather than having isolated UOM's for each crew that creates an imbalance in the system. He also insisted on the importance of creating a assembly line like flow in the site, which is one of the core principles of lean.

Mr. Shankaranarayanan and Mr.Lakshmi Narayanan of L&T talked about planning best practices (catch up planning, schedule crashing and resource leveling). The supervisor should be skilled enough to identify constraints and eliminate the route causes to derive effective output. Clearly communicating the weekly/monthly targets to all the contractors and closing the loop with plan Vs actuals discussions and systematically eliminating route causes for disruptions, will clearly pave the way for a very happy and satisfied work force.

The PMI Bengalore Chapter conducted a one day symposium on Engineering & Construction on April 22, 2016. The event was conducted at the Leela Palace hotel and was attended by around 200 attendees from the industry across Commercial and Residential Real Estate Developers, Capital projects, EPC contractors, PMCs and academics.

Kalyan Vaidyanathan from Nadhi Technologies had an opportunity to speak on "Lean Construction - An Indian Experience" about Nadhi's experience implementing lean construction practices across the country since 2010. The presentation was very well received and there has been a lot of interest from various companies in learning more about lean, and how it could be applied to their sites.

Constask Management Solutions in association with PMW conducted a two days Lean Construction workshop in Bengaluru (13-14 May 2016) received an overall rating of 4.6 out of 5 and 63% participants rated the workshop with 5 (Excellent).

Two days of productive learning and discussions on various ways &

TONY JACOB FROM CONSTASK MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS PRESENTED A PM POSTER SESSION ON LEAN CONSTRUCTION DURING THE SAME EVENT

E&C SYMPOSIUMBY PMI BENGALURUCHAPTER

GOLDEN JUBILEESEMINAR OFDIRECTOR GENERALNAVAL PROJECTS,IN VIZAC ONMAY 12

2 DAYS LEAN CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOPAT BENGALURU

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A paper authored by Dr Rastogi (BT & BT), Dr Yamini (NICMAR) & Four NICMAR Students, title "Technology Comparison of Key Construction Processes (Plastering, Blockwork, and Tiling”) is selected for publication and presentation at the Golden Jubilee Seminar of Director General Naval Projects, in Vizac on May 12.

unlimited opportunities to improve project performance are the key highlights. 21 professionals attended the workshop from Sterling and Wilson Ltd., URC Construction (P) Ltd, Brigade Group, Nagamani Constructions, CEC International Corporation, Karle Homes & L&T (B&F IC).

ILCE CHENNAIMONTHLYMEETINGS

U P C O M I N G E V E N T S

A paper written by Dr Rastogi, titled “SNAG PREVENTER: A LEAN DIGITAL™ SOFTWARE for paperless Quality Assurance”, is accepted for International Conference REDECON 2016 (International Conference on

Constask Management Solutions LLP in association with PMW announce the next workshop on Lean Construction @ Chennai, 15-16 July 2016. This the 5th such workshop being conducted in the last 18 months. For details contact tony.jacob@constask.com

a. BT&BT developing a Lean-Digital Platform, is now ready named SNAGGERR, to predict and prevent Snags, rather than finding and fixing snags. Formally to be launched in June 2016

ILCE Hyderabad hub organizing as a round-table discussions in June-July at Hyderabad, for showcasing the benefits of Lean Construction. For details contact dr_rastogi@btbt.co.in

ILCE Bengaluru hub is organizing a knowledge session on Lean Construction at Bengaluru on 10th June 2016. For details contact tony.jacob@constask.com

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ONRECENT DEVELOPMENT IN DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY FOR TALL STRUCTURES, BANGALORE,9-12 NOVEMBER 2016

2 DAYS LEAN CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP IN CHENNAI; 15-16 JULY 2016

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION ON LEAN CONSTRUCTION BY ILCE HYDERABAD

KNOWLEDGE SHARING SESSIONS ON LEAN CONSTRUCTION BY ILCE BENGALURU

H. O. : SP Center, 41/44 Minoo Desai Marg, Colaba , Mumbai - 400005 IndiaEmail: ppatil@ilce.in, verma.abhinetri@ilce.in

b. BT&BT started initial discussions with Business Schools for introducing a course on Lean Construction for their Real Estate Management Program in Executive MBA. Details will be announced soon

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Recent Development In Design and Construction Technology for TALL STRUCTURES], Bangalore, to be presented during 9-12 November 2016. For details contact dr_rastogi@btbt.co.in