Featured Presentations
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LPS® During Design
A 1-Hour Panel Discussion Regarding the use of the Last Planner System® During the Design Process. A panel of expert production planners including Cynthia Tsao (Navilean), Bill Whipple (Sutter Health), Eric Ubersax (Devenney), (Dean Hendry (Orcut|Winslow), Sabrina Odah (Suffolk), Matthew Jogan (vPlanner), and Samir Emdanat (vPlanner) participated in the discussion and shared their best practices and lessons learned.
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Production Management for IPD
Sutter Health leads the way in advancing IPD thinking. Have you ever wondered how they do it? This presentation by vPlanner, HerreroBoldt, and California Drywall features three IPD case studies of Sutter’s largest projects. See how vPlanner helped the team manage the project production strategy, which was key to improving collaboration, transparency, and the ability to reliably forecast the future and detect the variation.
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Recovery Planning with Takt
This webinar gives an overview presented by the vPlanner team and Walbridge, a Detroit-based GC, to show how vPlanner and our lean management services approach were used to bring this complex renovation project to a reliable completion while maximizing labor utilization, improving collaboration, and reducing rework.
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Advanced LPS® Metrics
Watch Samir Emdanat, President of vPlanner, and Digby Christian, Executive Director of Project Delivery at Sutter Health, discuss the advanced Last Planner System® Metrics available in vPlanner, which are now part of the Last Planner System® 2020 Benchmark (formerly known as LPS® 2.0 metrics).
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The Hubbard Center for Children
Watch this excellent overview of how the IPD team for the Hubbard Center for Children of Omaha decided to move mid-construction from CPM scheduling to Production Planning, Takt, and vPlanner and leveraged our lean management services to complete this project ahead of schedule and under budget.
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Solving the LPS® and CPM Conundrum
In this webinar, the lean champions team from Turner Norcal discuss their lean journey, their decision to use vPlanner, and how their thinking evolved as they continue to address the challenges of bridging the gap between the need to satisfy owner's CPM reporting requirements and their desire to manage production using the Last Planner System®.
Mega Projects Planning
It has been stated that over 70% of megaprojects fail to meet their targets. There is a better way! Listen to this 2-minute summary by Tom Guardino (Herrero Builders) of takeaways from a recent webinar featuring how to build high-performing teams. See above for the entire presentation.
Planning the Stanford Hospital
“What does it take to build a brand new hospital?” “How do you keep the focus on a project that goes for years and years?” Listen to the stakeholders involved in the planning of this state-of-the-art multi-billion-dollar hospital as they decided to use vPlanner solutions and our lean management services mid-construction to bring this highly complex project to a reliable completion.
Managing complexity!
Hubbard Center for Children
A walkthrough of the Hubbard Center for Children in Omaha during construction. Listen to the project team describe how they had decided to use vPlanner mid-construction to complete this complex IPD project ahead of schedule and under budget.