CE 699 Lean Design & Construction Department of Civil Engineering University of Kentucky

CE 699 Lean Design & Construction D e p a r t m e n t o f C i v i l E n g i n e e r i n g University of Kentucky Spring, 2014

Instructor: Prof. William F. Maloney 151B Oliver H. Raymond Building Telephone: 859-257-3236 e-mail: [email protected]

Course Hours: 3:30 – 4:45 Tuesday and Thursday

Office Hours: 2:00 – 3:30 Tuesday and Thursday and by appointment

We all have extremely busy schedules. You have other classes and possibly a job. I have my research, committee assignments, and administrative responsibilities. I have set aside these hours to be available to meet with students to discuss class questions or issues, curriculum matters, program matters, or any other issue a student wishes to discuss. I make a commitment to being available during these times. If you are unable to come in during these times, please call or see me to make an appointment to come in. I want to be able to meet with you to answer your questions, so please make an appointment if my office hours are inconvenient.

I want to encourage you to use e-mail to send me questions you may have rather than our playing telephone tag or you coming by to see me and I'm not in. My e-mail address is given above. I check my e-mail periodically during the day and will answer any questions I receive immediately.

Course Description: The course the Toyota Way and the Toyota Production System, the basis for the discipline of lean systems. Business processes, in general, and processes specific to the design and construction of structures will be studied and analyzed in terms of process redesign and improvement within the context of lean systems.

Course Format: The course will use lecture, discussion, student presentations, and guest speakers to meet the course objectives listed below.

This is a graduate course that will emphasize reading and discussion of the assigned topics. Therefore, the schedule will be extremely flexible to allow us to spend time on topics of grater interest to the students.

Course Objectives: The objectives for the course are to develop the students’ understanding of:  The culture of lean  the nature of business processes  effectiveness and efficiency of processes  the nature of waste in processes  the principles of lean systems  the application of lean system principles to construction processes and projects

Course Outcomes: Upon completion of this course students will be able to:  discuss the fundamentals of lean systems  apply the principles of lean systems to construction processes and projects Page 2 of 5

Course Requirements: The work to be required in this course will consist of the following: Three exams – 25 points each 75 Research Paper 25 Total 100

Submission of Assignments: Completed exams are to be submitted electronically to [email protected] by 3:30 pm on the due date. The submission must be a Microsoft Word file. PDF files will not be accepted Do not zip the file. Please name the file your Last Name Exam 1.docx, your Last Name Exam 2.docx, and your Last Name Exam 3.docx.

No late submittals will be accepted without prior permission from me.

Course Grades: Final grades will be assigned according to the grading scale as shown below: A 90 and above B 80 – 89 C 70 – 79 D 60 – 69 E 59 and below

The University of Kentucky describes these grades in the University Bulletin as follows: A – represents exceptionally high achievement as a result of aptitude, effort, and intellectual initiative [Emphasis added].

To reflect this, 10% of the value of each paper assignment may be earned through intellectual initiative. Initiative is the ability to act and make decisions without the help or advice of other people. Your ability to identify and use materials and approaches that go beyond those specified in the course materials will be recognized and rewarded. In business, one of your goals must be to distinguish yourself and/or your firm from other engineers and firms. You do this by making your work different from that of your competitors. How you do this requires the exercise of intellectual initiative. Absent the use of intellectual initiative, the highest score that one could earn on an assignment is 90.

B – represents high achievement as a result of ability and effort. C – represents average achievement. D – represents the minimum passing grade. E – represents unsatisfactory performance and indicates failure in the course.

Attendance Policy: I consider you to be an adult, capable of making the decision whether to attend class or not. You are responsible for all material distributed and addressed in class.

Handouts will be distributed in class. Handouts leftover at the end of class will be placed in a box on the wall to the left of my office door. If you fail to obtain a handout because you missed class, it is your responsibility to obtain a copy of that handout from a classmate or from that box.

Accommodations due to disability: If you have a documented disability that requires academic accommodations, please see me as soon as possible during scheduled office hours. In order to receive accommodations in this course, you must provide me with a Letter of Accommodation from the Disability Resource Center (Room 2, Alumni Gym, 257-2754, email address: [email protected]) for Page 3 of 5 coordination of campus disability services available to students with disabilities.

Classroom Behavior Policies: All students, by virtue of having paid for their classes, have the right to learn without interference from others. As the instructors, it is ultimately our responsibility to protect this right by creating and maintaining an environment that is conducive to learning. Towards this end, we have developed the following set of Course Expectations. The Expectations, which clarify our basic expectations of students, is a compilation of statements obtained directly from several existing sets of expectations. Students unwilling to abide by this code of conduct should drop/add immediately. Failure to abide by this code will result in disciplinary action which may include administrative withdrawal from the class. 1. Students are required and expected to conduct themselves as mature, considerate adults  Students should be in class, in their seats, and ready to start taking notes at the scheduled class time  Class will extend the full scheduled period. Please do not start packing to leave before class is over as this is distracting to others who are trying to hear the last of the presented material  Students should not engage in behavior that detracts from the learning experience. Behavior such as talking in class while the instructor is lecturing, ostentatiously not paying attention, sleeping, reading a newspaper or other unrelated materials, moving about the classroom, or engaging in other disruptive behavior will not be tolerated. Students who are being disruptive may be asked to leave the class.  Cell phones, pagers, timers, etc. should be turned off before class starts.  Students should not text, tweet, read email, work on assignments for other classes, or otherwise engage in activities not related to this class.  Students should not leave the classroom early. If under special circumstances, a student must leave early, the student should inform the instructor at the start of class. In addition, in these circumstances, the student should sit next to an exit and avoid walking in front of the instructor and/or students.  Because the classroom should be a place for the free discussion of ideas, students should conduct and express themselves in a way that is respectful of all persons.  Students should treat all members of the learning community with respect. Toward this end, students will promote academic discourse and free exchange of ideas by listening with civil attention to comments made by others.

2. Students are expected to strive for academic success, if not academic excellence  Students should show a genuine interest in learning the course material  Students should develop a positive attitude towards the course and course material  Students should develop self-discipline and responsibility for his/her own academic progress. Towards this end: o Students should attend regularly, arrive to class on time, stay through the full period, and bring all necessary materials (books, paper, pen, minds, …) to class o Students should participate in class o Students should ask for help when they need it o Students who miss a lecture should obtain a copy of the lecture notes from a fellow classmate o Students will receive handouts in class. If you miss a class, you should obtain a copy of the handout from a fellow classmate o Students should make an effort to take all tests at the scheduled time and to turn in all homework assignments in class at the time it is due. Unless an adequate excuse is provided, late assignments will not be accepted o Students are required and expected to behave in an academically honest Page 4 of 5

manner . o Students are expected to know what constitutes academic. University Senate Rules regarding plagiarism and cheating are presented below. Ignorance is not an excuse.

Academic Integrity: Per university policy, students shall not plagiarize, cheat, or falsify or misuse academic records. Students are expected to adhere to University policy on cheating and plagiarism in all courses. The minimum penalty for a first offense is a zero on the assignment on which the offense occurred. If the offense is considered severe or the student has other academic offenses on their record, more serious penalties, up to suspension from the university may be imposed.

Plagiarism and cheating are serious breaches of academic conduct. Each student is advised to become familiar with the various forms of academic dishonesty as explained in the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities. Complete information can be found at the following website: http://www.uky.edu/Ombud. A plea of ignorance is not acceptable as a defense against the charge of academic dishonesty. It is important that you review this information as all ideas borrowed from others need to be properly credited.

Part II of Student Rights and Responsibilities (available online http://www.uky.edu/StudentAffairs/Code/part2.html) states that all academic work, written or otherwise, submitted by students to their instructors or other academic supervisors, is expected to be the result of their own thought, research, or self-expression. In cases where students feel unsure about the question of plagiarism involving their own work, they are obliged to consult their instructors on the matter before submission.

When students submit work purporting to be their own, but which in any way borrows ideas, organization, wording or anything else from another source without appropriate acknowledgement of the fact, the students are guilty of plagiarism. Plagiarism includes reproducing someone else’s work, whether it be a published article, chapter of a book, a paper from a friend or some file, or something similar to this. Plagiarism also includes the practice of employing or allowing another person to alter or revise the work which a student submits as his/her own, whoever that other person may be.

Students may discuss assignments among themselves or with an instructor or tutor, but when the actual work is done, it must be done by the student, and the student alone. When a student’s assignment involves research in outside sources of information, the student must carefully acknowledge exactly what, where and how he/she employed them. If the words of someone else are used, the student must put quotation marks around the passage in question and add an appropriate indication of its origin. Making simple changes while leaving the organization, content and phraseology intact is plagiaristic. However, nothing in these Rules shall apply to those ideas which are so generally and freely circulated as to be a part of the public domain (Section 6.3.1).

Please note: Any assignment you turn in may be submitted to an electronic database to check for plagiarism.

Course Texts:  Required: The Toyota Way by Liker  Required: Modern Construction – Lean Project Delivery and Integrated Practices by Forbes and Ahmed  Required: Class Handouts Page 5 of 5

CE 699 Spring 2014 Schedule Date Topic Assignment Jan. 16 Course Introduction Jan. 21 The Toyota Way Chapters 1 - 3 Jan. 23 The Toyota Way Chapters 4 - 6 Jan. 28 The Toyota Way Chapters 7 - 9 Jan. 30 The Toyota Way Chapters 10 - 12 Feb. 4 The Toyota Way Chapters 13 - 15 Feb. 6 The Toyota Way Chapters 16 - 18 Feb. 11 Guest Speaker – To Be determined Feb. 13 The Toyota Way Chapters 19 - 22 Feb. 18 Overview of the Construction Industry Chapter 1 Feb. 20 Productivity and Performance Measurement in Chapter 2 Construction Feb. 25 Foundations of Lean Construction Chapter 3 Feb. 25 Exam #1Due Feb. 27 Lean Process Management Chapter 4 Mar.. 4 Lean Process Management and Lean Chapter 5 Mar.. 6 Tools/Techniques Mar. 11 Lean Construction Applications Chapter 6 Mar. 13 Lean Based Project Delivery Systems Chapter 7 Mar. 25 Information and Construction Chapter 8 Technology/Building Information System Modeling Mar. 25 Exam #2 Due Mar. 27 Quality Management in Construction: A Chapter 9 Complement to Lean /Construction Apr. 1 Sustainable Construction: Sustainability and Chapter 10 Commissioning Apr. 3 Selected Performance Improvement Tools and Chapter 11 Techniques Apr. 8 Safety Management Chapter 12 Apr. 10 Management and Worker Factors Chapter 13 Apr. 15 Systems Integration Approaches Chapter 14 Apr. 17 Learning from Projects and Enhancing Lean Chapter 15 Project Delivery and IPD Apr. 22 Guest Speaker – To Be Determined Apr. 24 Guest Speaker – To Be determined Apr. 24 Exam #3 Due Apr. 29 Student Presentations May 1 Student Presentations May 6 Term Paper Due