1) Professor Glenn Ballard from UC Berkeley will give a public lecture at TUT on November 29th at 10am in room X-209 of the Faculty of Economics building on Lean management methods. 2) Professor Ballard is the research director of the Lean Construction Institute and has 25 years of experience in the construction industry. He is an expert in project performance improvement. 3) The lecture will discuss how lean production theories from manufacturing can be adapted to construction project management practices.

1. Prof GLENN BALLARD
UC – BERKELY
PUBLIC LECTURE in TUT
Akadeemia tee 3, aud X-209
November 29 at 10.00
Lean as a Management Method Applicable
to a Wide Range of Organizations
Prof. Glenn Ballard is co-founder and research director of the Lean Construction Institute (LCI),
a non-profit organization dedicated to applying Lean theory, principles and techniques to create a
new form of project management to design and build capital facilities. Dr. Ballard brings 25 years
of construction industry expertise to his role and is a recognized expert in the area of project
performance improvement. An accomplished educator, author and public speaker, Dr. Ballard is
currently a member of the construction engineering and management program faculty at UC
Berkeley and Stanford. His principle research interest is adapting lean production theory from
manufacturing to construction management practice.
Toward that end, he has developed a model for lean delivery of capital facility projects, the Lean
Project Delivery System™. Dr. Ballard is also a founding member of the International Group of
Lean Construction, which is dedicated to the development and application of production control
concepts and techniques in the construction industry.
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Economics, X-
The lecture is taking place in TUT, Faculty of Economics, room X-209. WELCOME!
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