Why Your Company Needs a Lean Champion

Every construction company should have someone who has a driving passion for the Lean Construction practices. Why? Because these practices can have a positive effect on every entity involved in the project. Project owners want to see tangible results for their investment, and contractors and designers want to do their job well and efficiently.

What is Lean Construction?

Lean construction is a set of ideas that are rooted in the holistic pursuit of continuous improvements, which are aimed at minimizing costs and maximizing value to clients in all dimensions of the built and natural environment. These improvements fall under the following categories:

Planning
Design
Construction
Activation
Operations
Maintenance
Salvaging
Recycling

There are many benefits to implementing Lean Construction practices into your day-to-day work. For example, your company could benefit through:

On a corporate level, Lean is most effective when embraced by all areas of the company. To do so, senior management must understand the need for and advantages of Lean implementation. However, Lean is also an individual journey. All project team members must work together on a daily basis, incorporating Lean principles into their most basic work, to see the true benefits of Lean.

Become a Lean Construction Champion

Lean transformation is most effectively driven by individuals within an organization. The CM-Lean courses are intended for those individuals who will design and implement a Lean transformation strategy within an organization, and become their company’s Lean Construction Champion. Following completion of all seven units of the Lean Construction program, participants will be qualified to sit for an exam to earn AGC’s Certificate of Management – Lean Construction (CM-LC).Here at MBI, we believe that Lean Construction processes will bring value to each of our members. That is why we are offering these courses in May, and why we have committed to becoming a registered testing site. Use the link below to learn more about MBI’s upcoming Lean offerings.