How a Yurt Project developed into a Lean Journey and the creation of an Online Lean Project Facilitator Course

1. YURT Building 101

3. The BOSS
Prefab
Construction

5. Amazing Everything Fits

6. Wow So Fast

10. The Candle Lake Yurt
• Learned to think differently about construction
• Yurt Prefab Home (450 ft2
in 14 hours)
• Everything Fit … No trips ... Nothing missiong
• Relatively unskilled labour in Yurt Building

11. Intro: Lean Project Facilitator Course
Modules
• Business Case
• Build a Lean Foundation
• Create a TEAM
• Implement SYSTEM for “Getting Work Done”
• Collaboration for Delivering WOW projects

12. WE know “The PROBLEM”
Bad behavior and inefficiency are the two main
reasons we have $500 Billion per year in waste.
We can fix this!
There is a Business Case!
Championships on a Low Budget

13. Toyota kicks butt! … 3x more profitable & 100 mpg
WHY not apply the same principles to construction?
We know how to get Lean & Green Done

14. We want to train YOU to get
Lean & Green Done

15. Glen Ballard and Greg Howell took it upon
themselves to develop
a disciplined SYSTEM for “Getting Work Done”.
We have a SYSTEM …. It is called Lean Project Delivery

16. In the book Drive we find out what really MOTIVATES a Team
All teams need to be FIT that is why we
put them through BOOT Camp
Learn HOW to put a TEAM together

17. We create great stories like the Mosaic Centre.
Net 0 at Net 0 additional cost… WOW
In this module we adds Tools to the ToolBox
Learn How to COLLABORATE

18. I just finished listening to the “Rock the Casbah” a song by
the CLASH, one of the most influential band of the eighties. (Rolling Stone
Magazine)
They had an awesome Playbook & YOU need one too
Create your own PLAYBOOK

19. We will work together on “the PROJECT”
We are going to create a Smart Building PROJECT that one of us is going
to build .
Deliver your own PROJECT
the Smart Building Project
As a recently graduated Lean Project Facilitator I want to demonstrate that we can
build Lean & Green smart buildings that set a new standard in the building industry …
and I will.
(Build by someone ….. Yet to be Determined)

20. We know it works … Lean & Green Projects
the Mosaic Centre
We wanted to demonstrate that triple bottom line
economics works for the commercial real estate
… and it does! Dennis Cuku
the EcoSmart Home
We wanted to demonstrate that
Net 0 homes are economically viable …
and we did! Taylor Guy
the Trades Center
We wanted to be sustainability leaders in our
community by building Net 0 … and we are!
Kathleen Lausman

21. Summary
•Establish the Business Case
•Build a Lean Foundation
•Assemble a TEAM
•Implement the SYSTEMS that “Get Work
Done”
•COLLABORATE to deliver WOW
•Create a Playbook for Success
•Learn from successful Lean & Green
Projects

22. That is the “Lean Project Facilitator” Course
In a Nutshell!
www.LeanLab.ca or mguy@i-designs.ca
U-tube Video link
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=MtBkA1zayF0