Lean Construction Ireland National Conference 2018

Lean Construction Ireland National Conference 2018

20th November, Croke Park Dublin

Deliver Projects Better, Faster, Together

Lean Construction Ireland will host a unique one day symposium in Croke Park Dublin on the 20th of November 2018. The theme of the event is “Lean Innovation – Inspiring our Future in Construction“. The aim of the event is to gather experts in the field of lean construction to both inspire, and challenge the industry to implement lean practices on their projects. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from others how they can leverage the benefits of lean concepts to deliver quality projects that are safer, faster and more profitable leading to increased stakeholder satisfaction and value for money.

Jones Engineering are involved at a number of different levels in this year’s National Conference:

• We have a trade stand at the event to showcase our continuous improvement and learnings at all levels throughout the group
• Our own Rob Hughes will be speaking in one of the presentation rooms about new initiatives in his area of geo surveying and laser scanning
• We are sponsoring one of the keynote speakers at the event Rafael Sacks Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He is the Vice-Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and he was Head of Structural Engineering and Construction Management from 2012-2015. Rafael’s research focuses on the synergies of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Lean Construction. Recent work at the Seskin Virtual Construction Lab at the Technion, which he leads, has included: development of BIM-enabled lean production control systems; statement of the requirements for good work flow in construction and the Construction Flow Index;  semantic enrichment of BIM models using machine-learning and rule-processing, with application to BIM interoperability, model acquisition from point-cloud data, and code-compliance checking. He is a co-author of the “BIM Handbook”, currently in its 3rd edition, and the lead author of a new book on Lean and BIM implementation in construction, “Building Lean, Building BIM: Changing Construction the Tidhar Way”. He has a rich record of journal publications and was awarded the ASCE Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize for research in construction management in 2016.