Their are many Challenges facing Owners LEAN Facilities Management in terms of moving from theory to practice.
Achievement of LEAN Facilities Management requires greater focus upon change management as well improving overall owner leadership skills and competency.
In general, real property owners lack an understand of facilities life-cycle and LEAN construction best management practices.
Challenges facing Owners LEAN Facilities Management
Facilities life-cycle and LEAN construction best management practices …
- Collaboration will ALL project participants and stakeholders
- Common data environment (CDE) and standard data architectures (CSI MasterFormat, Uniformat, Omniclass) – Locally researched and shared/common line item unit price database
- Continuous improvement (not being satisfied with the status quo)
- Shared risk/reward
- Financial transparency
- Ongoing REQUIRED training and certification
- Design, implementation, and monitoring of LEAN collaborative construction delivery methods (Integrated Project Delivery – IPD, for major new construction, and Job Order Contracting – JOC, for renovation, repair, maintenance, sustainability, and minor new construction)
- Leveraging technology for lower cost implementation and consistent deployment and monitoring, versus being the driver
- Life-cycle versus first-cost decision-making
- Understanding the value of long-term win/win relationships
