Alberto Undurraga
Ministry of Public Works. Business Engineer of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Master’s Degree in Applied Economics at the University of Michigan. 2013-2014: Vice-president of the Christian Democratic Party. 2014: President of the Foundation for a Fair City. 2004-2012: Mayor of the Municipality of Maipú, Santiago. 2000-2004: National Director of the National Consumer Service (SERNAC). 1994-2000: member of the National Council for Overcoming Poverty. 1991-1992: President of the Student Federation at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
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Juan Manuel Sánchez
Architect, Master’s Degree in Urban Management and City Design in DA Milano. He has over 14 years of professional experience in the fields of Design, Management and Urban and Territorial Planning in the public and private sectors. Previously, he worked in the advisory group of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development of Chile, where he held the position of Executive Subdirector of the Integrated Urban Project “Ciudad Parque Bicentenario”. He was Project Manager of the Integrated Urban Transport Plan of the city of Concepción, Biovías. In Italy, he was part of the team that designed the Urban Development Plan for the Coastline of Venice. Moreover, he teaches in postgraduate programs of the Pontifical Catholic University and the Diego Portales University in Chile.
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Luis Fernando Alarcón
Luis F. Alarcon is Professor of Civil Engineering and Associate Dean of Extension and Technology Transfer in the Faculty of Engineering at the Catholic University of Chile. He has a Civil Engineering degree from the Catholic University of Chile, and a Ph. D. in Civil Engineering from UC, Berkeley.
He is a founding member of the (IGLC) International Group for Lean Construction and founder and Director of the Production Management Center of the Catholic University of Chile (GEPUC), where he has directed research on Lean Production for the last two decades. He was the Shimizu Visiting Professor at Stanford University in 2008. Previously, he has held visiting professor/scholar positions at Salford University (UK) and The Ohio State University. He has developed research and consultancy for public and private organizations, including the US Dept. of State the Panama Canal Authority and CODELCO.
He has numerous publications in areas of project and construction management and he has published several books: "Lean Construction”, “Project Performance Modeling: A Methodology for Evaluating Project Execution Strategies”, “Uncertainty Management in Repetitive Construction Projects using WIP Buffers”, "Identification and Reduction of Waste in Construction", "Administration of Civil Engineering Projects", and "Project Planning and Control"
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Amr Abdel-Azim
Amr is a pioneer in the area facilities management in higher education campuses. He is currently a Senior Architect at Michigan State University with 15+ years at the East Lansing, Michigan, Campus. Amr is a key participant in MSU capital planning process of over 5,200 acres (21 km2) of MSU's contiguous campus, there are 556 buildings: 100 for academics, 131 for agriculture, 166 for housing and food service, and 42 for athletics. Overall, the university has 22,763,025 square feet. Amr have had cutting-edge practice in Campus building technology, design-build project delivery, and construction quality.
His professional achievement includes building American University of Sharjah, a brand new campus from scratch at UAE. Founded in 1997, AUS is a private comprehensive university that has five colleges residing on a beautiful 330-acre located in the City of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Amr had a leading effort in building Michigan State University Campus in Dubai as part of Dubai Academic City, completed in Sep, 2008. MSU Dubai is integrally connected to the main MSU campus, giving students the opportunities to enrich their academic and student life experience.
He served as the Senior Executive for Capital Projects at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) leading a capital construction program at RPI. The major Campus development involved $300-million state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research Center and world-class performing art Center (EMPAC) and related infrastructure.
Amr was the Director of Physical Plant of the newly established the American University of Sharjah and the University of Sharjah, started the Campus from scratch. The campus physical plant, which reflects a distinctive Arabic architectural style, is comprised of 90 administrative, classroom, athletic/recreational, and residential buildings totaling over 2,300,000 square feet.
Amr holds a bachelor degree in Architecture and a master degree in Urban Planning. He is Certified Educational Facilities Professional CEFP by APPA. He is an active member of many American and International organizations in the area of facilities in higher education, Lean Construction, and facilities management.
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Glenn Ballard
H. Glenn Ballard is co-founder and research director of the Lean Construction Institute (LCI), a non-profit organization dedicated to applying Lean theory, principles and techniques to create a new form of project management to design and build capital facilities. Dr. Ballard brings 25 years of construction industry expertise to his role and is a recognized expert in the area of project performance improvement.
He has worked as a manager, trainer and consultant with a myriad of organizations ranging from construction and engineering firms to public utilities to international oil and gas manufacturers.
These organizations include: Ford Motor Co., Brown & Root, Bechtel Corp., Jacobs Engineering, Petroleos de Venezuela, Pacific Gas & Electric, Caltrans and the Department of Defense.
An accomplished educator, author and public speaker, Dr. Ballard is currently a member of the construction engineering and management program faculty at UC Berkeley and Stanford. His teaching focuses on improving, as opposed to controlling, project performance. His principle research interest is adapting lean production theory from manufacturing to construction management practice. Toward that end, he has developed a model for lean delivery of capital facility projects, the Lean Project Delivery SystemTM. Dr. Ballard is also a founding member of the International Group of Lean Construction, which is dedicated to the development and application of production control concepts and techniques in the construction industry. He is frequently asked to share his research and experience with audiences at conferences and private organizations around the world.
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Darrell Damron
As the Assistant Director of Lean Transformation Services at the Washington State Department of Enterprise Services, Darrell leads a team of private sector Lean experts in helping state and local governments use the Lean Government Framework to improve the value they deliver to Washingtonians.
With more than three decades of public service experience, Darrell is passionate about helping government leaders create a way of working that will better value to more Washingtonians for generations to come and make public service a delightful experience.
In the State of Washington, Darrell served as an enterprise lean consultant in the Governor’s Office under two governors, developing improvement capability in leaders and employees from more than 50 state agencies.
Darrell created Washington State’s Lean Expert Partnership Program through which, more than 240 private sector experts volunteered their time to give thousands of Washington state’s public servants advice, training, and coaching as they learned to use Lean principles and tools to make improvements throughout state government – all at no cost to taxpayers.
Prior to joining state government, Darrell served 6 years on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps. Darrell enjoys backpacking, kayaking and nature photography.
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Michael Bade
Mr. Bade is a California registered architect with an M. Arch and a B. Sci. from UC Berkeley and is Associate Vice Chancellor - Capital Programs at the University of California San Francisco. He has oversight responsibility for over current 140 capital projects and a program commitment of over $2.7 billion over 10 years, including over $400 million for seismic remediation projects. Mr. Bade is a key participant in UCSF’s physical and capital planning processes.
Prior to joining UC, Mr. Bade spent nearly 12 years in Tokyo, Japan engaged in architectural design, project management, and program delivery for a wide range of international companies in the high-technology, international banking, software, pharmaceuticals, and photographic imaging industries. In Japan, he was exposed to cutting-edge practices in building technology, design-build project delivery, and construction quality. These made a lasting impression, and motivated him to explore lean design and construction methods upon my return to California.
He is past Chair of the Board of the Lean Construction Institute, and also past President of the San Francisco Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (2011), and a past member of the California Council of the AIA (2012-13). He has worked in the University of California Office of the President, providing coordination and oversight services for projects system-wide.
In his spare time (assuming he has any) he enjoys photography, travel, hiking in wild nature, music, and long dinners with friends.
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Jani Saarinen
Jani Saarinen is a partner and a founding member of Vison Alliance Partners Ltd. Vison is specialised in construction and real estate management, public procurement and supply chain management. Vison provides construction management consultation for construction clients, real estate owners and for public organizations.
Mr. Saarinen has a 30-year experience in construction and real estate industry, financial management and asset management and procurement and project management. He has completed a master's degree in civil engineering from Tampere University of Technology in 1991.
His key qualifications include real estate and infrastructure industry, procurement and construction management, public-private-partnerships and integrated project deliveries (project alliances etc.), as well as financial management, state accounting and budgeting. He is also a founding member of the Lean Construction Institute Finland and the Green Building Council Finland.
Mr. Saarinen has worked for Talokeskus Group Ltd as a Chief Executive Officer 2009-12, for The Finnish Association of Building Owners and Construction Clients as an Executive Director 2006-2009 and for the Finnish National Road Administration as the CFO (2001–2006), as Deputy Director and Chief of Staff (1998–2001), as a senior engineer, financial analyst (1994–1997) and as a head of the unit (1994-1995).
Mr. Saarinen has also been involved in World Bank projects In China and in Estonia and has participated in several OECD Working Groups in 1997-2000 and 2005-03, served on World Road Association (PIARC) Committees in 2000-2011 and participated in the Conference of European Directors of Roads (CEDR) in 2001-2005. He has also served as a member of the Managing Committee of the European Property Federation (EPF) in 2007-2009.
Mr. Saarinen has also hold various positions of trust including board of the Finnish Association of Consulting Firms SKOL, Finnish Association of Civil Engineers, Institute for Real Estate Economics, Center for Real Estate and Finance, Advisory Board of Transport Infrastructure at the Ministry of Transport and Communications (2006–2008), Advisory Board of the State Treasury of Finland (2004–2006), and Board of the Finnish Road Association (2003–2005).
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Graeme Shaw
Is a former Royal Navy Engineering Officer and served in various roles around the world as both an engineer and in training and intelligence roles. Since 2004 he has been involved with and lead some of the biggest projects and programmes in London Underground as deputy head of track delivery (TubeLines), Vice President Delivery and Head of Engineering in Station Upgrades (Metronet Rail and London Underground) covering station infrastructure upgrades, lifts and escalators.
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Pablo Contrucci
Architect graduated (1985) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile; he addresses mainly urban issues and project management.
He worked for 10 years at the Development Corporation of Santiago, where he held the position of Executive Subdirector in 1991-1997; then, in 1997-2000 he performed the function of Executive Director. In this Corporation, he was in charge of projects and programs concerning urban development and renewal.
He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Architects’ Association of Chile, where he held the positions of Secretary General in 1996-2000 and Vice-president of Internal Affairs in 2000-2002.
From 2000 to 2012 he was Project Manager of Urbanya for the Real Estate Agency Las Lilas de Pudahuel.
In 2013 and until March 2014, he was Executive Director of the “Cities Observatory” of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
As of March 2014 he is the Chief of the Urban Development Department of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development of Chile; this unit is in charge of urban and building planning and regulations; public development of urban projects, and investment programs in public spaces, roads and housing.
In the academic field, he has taught undergraduate and postgraduate classes on urbanism and urban management at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and other Chilean universities. Until March 2014, when he assumed the management of the Urban Development Department of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, he was Academic Director and Teacher of the Real Estate Management Diploma of the Institute for Urban and Territorial Studies of the same university.
He has been consultant on urban and urban management issues for different principals, among which the IDB, UNDP, Ministry of Public Works of Chile, Ministry of Finance of Chile and the BBVA Bank are worth highlighting.
He frequently participates as a speaker in seminars and conferences, especially in Chile and Latin America.
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Francisco Jeria
Ingeniero Civil Industrial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Areas of Expertise: Strategy Plan, Financial Statement, Definition of Indicators, Project Management, Fundraising, Implementation
Process, Education, Government, Political/Legislative, Social and Inclusion.
Job Experience: Managemente experience y project related to social innovation, social inclusion and educational systems. Experience in fundraising, social awareness and comunication strategies, team building.
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Rubén Alvarado
Rubén Alvarado is a Chemical Engineer, and holds the position of General Manager in the Metro de Santiago underground network. Alvarado, 55 years old, has a Master of Administration from the University of Chile and a Master of Business Administration from the Tulane University, United States.
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Christine Haas
Christine Haas is currently Senior Counsel for the Regents of the University of California, Office of General Counsel. She handles real estate and construction transactional and litigation matters for UCSF and UCSF Medical Centers. She was the 2016 Campus Counsel of the Year Finalist - Diversity Champion, San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal and the 2016 “Industry Impact Award” Finalist - Commercial Real Estate Women, San Francisco.
Prior to that time, she was General Counsel, Lend Lease (US) Public Partnerships LLC and Assistant General Counsel, Lend Lease (US) Public Partnerships LLC and advised Lend Lease in connection with over fourteen P3
transactions with the Department of Defense, with a collective value in excess of $5 billion, involving the development, construction and financing of military housing facilities, renewable energy projects and related infrastructure in Hawaii, North Carolina, South Carolina, Colorado, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee and New York for the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. Lend Lease’s Privatized Army Lodging Project won “Americas Deal of the Year for 2009 - North America Real Estate Deal of the Year” by Project Finance magazine. The Army Hawaii Family Housing transaction was named “North American PPP Deal of the Year” in 2005 by Project Finance magazine.
Ms. Haas worked at Thelen, Reid & Priest from 1991-2006 and was made a partner in its Construction & Government Contracts Group in 1998.
2008, Executive Development Leadership Program, Columbia Business School J.D., December 1990, University of San Francisco School of Law B.A., 1985, English, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Carlos Lexutt
Carlos Lexutt is the Director of Productivity at the Vice-presidency of Projects at Corporación Nacional del Cobre, Codelco. He is a Civil Engineer from the Universidad de Chile, with a Master’s Degree in Business Management and a MBA Executive from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. He also has a diploma in finances administration and project management from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
In his 30 years of experience he has served as director of several relevant companies in the sectors of mining, project development, technology, services and retail. His experience has allowed him to gain invaluable competences in business development, organizational development, organizational transformation, innovation, training, leadership and team administration. In recent years, Carlos has also been the leader of the Lean Management Program C+ at Codelco, performing a crucial role as the head of the productivity and organizational transformation areas.
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Victor Roig
Consultor LEAN & BIM, BIMETRIC Laboratorio de Procesos (Barcelona). In 2012, he founded Bimetric Lab, a consultancy firm which aims to become a catalyst for the transformation of the construction sector, built on the introduction of the Lean construction and BIM principles. Currently, he is advising some organizations and companies, both public and privates.
Promoter of Lean and BIM events like the LIPS 2015 Conference, LPS 2016 and LEAN2017, he has participated on conferences, workshops and has written some articles about both topics.
Since March 2015, is Member of the Commission “Building the Future”, initiative launched by ITeC, with the aim to introduce Lean thinking principles, BIM methodology and collaborative contracts on the Catalan Construction Industry.
Since December 2015, he is Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology of Barcelona School of Building Construction (EPSEB-UPC)
Since September 2016, he is member of the organizing committee of LIPS conference.
Spanish and Catalan Editor of BIMDictionary, he is Core member of BIMe Initiative (http://bimexcellence.org/) a not-for- profit effort based on the BIM Excellence approach and unique research-based approach to digital innovation in the
construction industry.
Editor of espacioleanbim.com website, he collaborates with international experts like Glenn Ballard, Alan Mossman and Bilal Succar spreading the principles of the Lean Construction approach and the BIM methodology in Spanish
Previously, from 1987 to 2011, at GPO Ingeniería S.A, an engineering and architecture consultancy firm, he worked as engineer, Project Manager on large investment works and General Manager of the Building division and Project Manager. He became associated in 1996.
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Alan Mossman
MD of the The Change Business Ltd, a lean design and construction consultancy and an accredited Last Planner trainer, Alan has coached a number of teams making a Lean transformation and implementing Last Planner for clients around the world.
Alan’s current interests are in the lean transformation of projects and organisations in design and construction. This is supported by studies of the co-evolution of product design and production system design to create target value design (TVD) for construction and of who makes money out of process waste in the end-to-end construction process. Alan is coach and facilitator for the 'Choosing by Advantages' system of and processes for decision making.
He has strong links with lean construction communities in the US, UK and elsewhere in Europe and with the International and European Groups for Lean Construction that enable him to keep up to date with the continuing development of lean thinking applied to design, construction and integrated project delivery. For details of the global lean construction community see http://db.tt/0xozjL5
He is an occasional author (e.g. http://bit.ly/LPS-5cc) and teacher of lean construction (e.g. Loughborough U & Nottingham Trent U) and researcher. With colleagues in the Netherlands he has developed a simulation to help projects teams experience the rudiments of Last Planner (http://www.villego.com).
On Linkedin Alan hosts the Lean Construction Network http://linkd.in/LCN-Group and the Lean Construction Institute UK http://linkd.in/LCI--uk among other groups.
Specialties: project and organisation level lean transformation; the implementation of Last Planner in design & construction; construction logistics; co-evolution of product design and production system design, target value design, creating results; Choosing By Advanatages
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Jakob Lemming
Jakob is President of Lean Construction Denmark, an association that works to cut the construction process and is the venue for Danish activities for Lean Construction. He is also Head of Section for Building and Civil Engineering in Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
He has worked as a Project Manager in the Danish Assosiation of Construction Clients, developing and managing developments of projects nationally and internationally. He also was teacher in Copenhagen School of Engineering, mainly as a foundation courses teacher.
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