A Common Work Environment for Real Property Owners, AEs, Builders, and Building Users
Best value facility and asset management can be achieved through the application of LEAN planning, procurement, and project delivery methods. LEAN methods assure alignment of facilities/infrastructure needs with organizational objectives and provide an operational framework for best value planning, procurement, and project execution.
Benefits of LEAN integrated project delivery …
- Demonstrate cost effectiveness to management, clients, building users…
- Defined best value acquisition strategy
- Integrated program and project management
- Common data environment, language, and shared locally researched detailed construction cost data
- Risk reduction
- Integrate previously fragmented areas of expertise – roles, units, elements
- Eliminate duplicated activities
- Shared work breakdown structure
- Consistent proven workflows
- Allocate more dollars towards repair, renovation, maintenance, and construction versus administration and waste
- Full traceability, single, audit worthy source of current and historical information
- Defined schedules
- Acceptance criteria
- Defined workflows, approvals, documents, and packages
- Variance mitigation and reporting
- Tools, training , and support services
Fundamentals of LEAN facilities and asset management… Knowledge & Practices, Competences, Standards, Workflows, & Metrics
- Value definition across multiple participants and stakeholders
- Leverage expertise of those doing the work
- Global oversight and use of KPIs
- Common data environment
- Life-cycle versus first-cost perspective
- Define workflows, roles and responsibilities, deliverables
- Owner leadership and competency
- Long-term mutually beneficial relationships
- Shared risk/reward
- Mandatory initial and ongoing training for all participants
- Continuous improvement
- Regular independent audits
- Actionable current information
