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Mark Skender attends
his first LCI Conference
in Chicago and begins
incorporating some of
the ideas at Skender.
LCI
1997
1998
Translation of lean
manufacturing principles
to construction begins
1999
2000
First LCI Congress took
place in Denver, CO
A group of companies encouraged LCI to form and
donated money to found the Lean Construction
Institute
2001
2002
Relational contracting
discussion in Las Vegas
led to Sutter Health
interest in lean
2003
Skender ‘Healthcare’ implements
Last Planner on their projects and
monitoring PPC
Begins meeting to discuss best
practices and Last Planner weekly.
2004
Sutter Health commits to lean
principles for their multi-billion
dollar building program
First LCI Chapter forms in
Northern California as an offshoot of the Sutter commitment
2005
2006
P2SL formed by Glenn Ballard
and Iris Tomelein at UC
Berkeley as the first
university-level research
program associated with LCI
Skender ‘Healthcare’ begins tracking PPC on all projects
Skender Healthcare starts working on their
first ‘Target Value Design’ project
2008
2009
Communities of Practice form across the
United States, growing to 5 Communities
in 2007, 10 Communities in 2009, to
more than 20 Communities by 2012
2010
Skender’s Lean champions become
the co-founding members of the
LCI Chicago Community of Practice.
2011
2012
Dick Bayer named as Interim
Director of LCI, signifying the
transition from the founders
Dan Heinemeier named as
Director of LCI
Joe Pecoraro
Afshan Barshan
Lean Perspectives – an in-house
blog on day-to-day lean
experiences was introduced
All teams consolidated to form One Skender.
LPS Training for teams implemented.
2007
Mark Skender
A cross functional Team of
Skender employees develop a
deeper and more
comprehensive Last Planner
system training program to
promote consistent application
of LPS company wide
2013