Presentation Abstracts
panelists:
Jimmie Hinze, University of Florida
Kevin Smith, Dick Corporation
Sam Thurman, Southern Company
Jimmie Hinze, University of Florida
Kevin Smith, Dick Corporation
Sam Thurman, Southern Company
How do construction firms and projects develop, structure, and successfully implement effective programs to prevent or to address specific types of jobsite hazards? How do you move to the next level beyond just good safety management? How do you achieve the “zero incident” objective that top construction programs seek?
Having already examined safety programs to see how overall safety management has been used to pursue the zero injury objective, CII investigated implementation details of programs that are designed to prevent specific types of injuries — target safety programs.
Target safety programs are techniques or approaches employed to reduce or eliminate specific types of hazards. These programs are implemented by firms that are proactive about construction safety.
This session will focus on the procedures utilized to ensure successful development, implementation, and management of target safety programs that can be effectively implemented on commercial and industrial projects.
Manuel Garcia, Construction Industry Institute
CII can assist you in the execution of your projects. See where tapping CII resources is key to project success. Update yourself on the latest CII programs and resources.
Manuel Garcia, Construction Industry Institute
CII has identified over 40 project-improvement practices. Where do you start? What are CII Best Practices? What information can you tap to improve your projects? This session will answer these questions and show you where they fit in the life cycle of your projects. See why it is important to implement CII Best Practices and how they affect project performance.
During this interactive session, the audience will be shown a film highlighting the announcement of a high profile project that needs to be done safely, on time and for a specific cost. As we advance into the future, the audience will see that the project didn’t go anywhere near as well as it should have.
The audience will become CSIs: Construction Scene Investigators. Participants will conduct an autopsy in CSI fashion, analyzing what went wrong with the help of seasoned crack investigators with extensive CII knowledge. The teams will determine what could have been done differently to see a completely different outcome. Different perspectives will be analyzed, introducing and enforcing the Practices and Tools available to all CSIs who are willing to take full advantage of the CII Product Implementation Workshops. The creative juices of Warner & Kanteres Enterprises will once again stun you.
Tracie Griffitt, Jacobs
Humans innately resist change. How do you identify the real barriers to implementing high performance work processes? At this important working session, participants will identify the most common barriers to implementing new practices within their organizations. Facilitators will assist participants in pinpointing the most commonly encountered and significant barriers.
The two-hour session on the new CII Implementation Planning Model that occurs at 2:15pm on April 1 (see below) will address these findings and provide a roadmap for successful implementation.
Many industry participants allocate construction risks, unfortunately, by the process of aversion. Owners have a tendency to shift risk to the primary contractor, who in turn pushes risk to the lower-tier parties in the contracting arrangement. As a consequence, parties with the least amount of control and influence over many of the risk-producing factors and decisions often carry the majority of the construction risk burden. The construction industry, despite extensive research into risk allocation, has yet to accept a conclusive and widely accepted practice. The current perception is that prevailing risk allocation strategies are ineffective and detrimental to overall project performance and success.
In response, CII took on the issue of risk allocation by forming the Contracting to Appropriately Allocate Risk Research Team. Composed of a wide representation of industry players including public and private owners, contractors, subcontractors, attorneys, insurance/risk management representatives, and A/Es, the research team developed several useful risk allocation tools during its investigation. Formally, the research team bunched the tools together and called the complete package “the Two-Party Risk Assessment and Allocation Model.”
This workshop session will summarize the model produced by the research team and how its application will encourage risk identification, assessment, and ultimately allocation in a compromising and educated manner, recognizing the unique circumstances of each specific project. Understanding that many interested parties may not have found the time to read the over 600-page research report, this session will help summarize how and when to use the developed model in a simplified manner.
Owners and Contractors:
Jim Ealy, Aker Kværner
Mike Farley, Mustang Engineering
Allan Johnson, Cargill
Thad Konopnicki, U.S. Department of Energy
Greg Thomas, Fisk Electric
Jim Ealy, Aker Kværner
Mike Farley, Mustang Engineering
Allan Johnson, Cargill
Thad Konopnicki, U.S. Department of Energy
Greg Thomas, Fisk Electric
During this session, a group of industry experts will share their experiences on identifying, allocating, and assigning risk in their contracts. Audience participation will be encouraged. Bring your concerns in this area and see how your peers — contractors as well as owners — approach contract risk allocation.
CII Implementation Strategy Committee
Meet top implementers, exchange experiences, and gain insight to tackle implementation barriers.
Paul Chinowsky, University of Colorado–Boulder
Apply what you learned in the “Hot Pursuit” session (below) and walk through an implementation planning process for individual implementation projects. Case studies will be presented to assist attendees in relating their implementation plans to previous implementation efforts.
Paul Chinowsky, University of Colorado–Boulder
New ideas and processes frequently encounter initial resistance. Successful implementation requires careful planning for ultimate success.
In this session, attendees will be introduced to the new CII Implementation Planning Model. The strategies and measurements used to determine progress in implementing new practices will be introduced together with how to develop a plan for successful implementation.
Paul Hochi, Jacobs
How do you complete projects on time in today’s environment of craft labor shortages and challenging schedules? CII research has shown modularization to be the correct approach in many situations. But how do you determine whether a project is a modular candidate?
CII Implementation Resource 171-2, Prefabrication, Preassembly, Modularization, and Offsite Fabrication: Decision Framework and Tool, was developed to facilitate decision making. This session will present a Jacobs Engineering adaptation of the CII Strategic Level II Decision Tool presented in IR171-2. The refined tool reduces the number of questions from 100 to 25 while still incorporating the summary features of the original. The participant will learn about the benefits of modular construction and under which situations it is appropriate to use.
Maria DeIsasi, Smithsonian Institution
This case study presents the early phases of a best practices program for the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Engineering Design and Construction, as seen from an Implementation Champion’s perspective. Workshop participants will learn how to apply the CII Implementation Model in the context of organizational culture and management expectations, to address real problems and make positive change.
Barry Rittberg, Fluor
Organizations in the engineering and construction industry cannot afford to make repetitive mistakes on major projects. Conversely, great benefits come from repeating positive project experiences. This need for institutional memory is amplified by the reality that in the course of normal turnover and retirement, people with years of experience leave their organizations. When organizations are able to transfer knowledge through a lessons learned program [LLP], they can increase project efficiency — an important capacity in the fast-paced engineering and construction industry.
This session will present a Maturity Model Matrix and Self-Assessment Questionnaire to assess LLP effectiveness with respect to seven key characteristics. A Jump Start Guide will be reviewed and a sample Transactional Work Flow Diagram will be presented as a roadmap for typical lessons learned transactions. These tools form a framework for organizations to integrate a lessons learned program into their current work processes.
Erwin Kiess, CSA Group
Performance excellence is not negotiable — it is required for survival in today’s highly competitive construction industry.
This session will introduce a proposal for integrating The Baldrige National Quality Program Criteria and CII Best Practices to accelerate business results.
Understand how Baldrige Program Criteria promotes performance excellence; recognize the synergy between CII’s Mission and Vision and the Baldridge Criteria; see how CII Practices work within the context of the Baldrige criteria.
CII was founded in 1983, to research methods to achieve safe, top quality, cost effective, and schedule-certain projects. This effort has resulted in over 80 publications on the topic of effective Business and Project Processes.
Organizational and Performance Excellence frameworks, as we know them today, were initiated some years later. While CII published SP31-1, Implementing TQM in Engineering & Construction in 1994, the concepts have evolved and new approaches emerged at the turn of that decade.
Likewise, the “Excellence” frameworks started evolving from a “Quality” mindset to an Organizational mindset and from a manufacturing focus to a services focus. An example is the evolution of the ISO 9000 series of standards and how they have been adapted to many industries, including EPC.
This session will focus on the framework proposed by the Baldrige National Quality Program through its Criteria for Performance Excellence and its applicability to the construction industry, particularly through the application of CII research findings.
