The 5th Indian Lean Construction Conference (ILCC 2022) was recently conducted jointly by Institute for Lean Construction Excellence (ILCE) and National Institute of Construction Management and Research (NICMAR) at the NICMAR Hyderabad Campus. The 4-day event comprised Workshop day for Students on 13th December, Industry day on 14th December and a Conference on 15th December. The event's theme was Sustaining Lean in Construction with People and Technology.

The Workshop day (13th Dec 2022) gave the students and lean enthusiasts hands-on experience in AR/VR, Lean and BIM and the people and culture associated with Lean. More than 120 students from universities across India and working professionals in various industries participated in the event.

The Industry day (14th Dec 2022) was inaugurated by Dr Anil Kashyap, Director General NICMAR, Mr Anup Mathew, Sr. Vice President, Godrej, and Dr Koshy Varghese, Professor and Dean Academic, IIT Madras. It had a presentation by Prof. N. Raghavan, Professor, IIT Madras, Mr. Sharique Khan, Project Manager, Turner International LLC Mr. Jayadatta V Lad, AGM, Afcons Infrastructure Ltd, Mr. Karun Raj Singh Sareen, Partner Major Projects Advisory, KPMG-India, Dr. Bhargav Dave, Founder and CEO VisiLean Ltd (Oy), Mr. Sabarinath C Nair, Co-Founder CEO, SkillVeri Training Solutions Pvt Ltd on their experience and technologies they had adopted in various construction projects.

The event rolling trophy was presented to the best-performing companies adopting Lean Practices. The industry day had a two panel discussion on Technology's role in effective lean implementation and Challenges from people for successful implementation by experts from industry and academia.

The Conference day (15th and 16th Dec 2022) was inaugurated by Dr Anil Kashyap, Director General NICMAR, Mr. Anup Mathew, Sr. Vice President, Godrej and Mr Navin Mittal (IAS) Commissioner of Technical and Collegiate Education, Govt of Telangana. There were 42 papers presented at the conference in 9 parallel tracks that showcased various aspects of innovations researched in the field of Lean Construction.

The event had a keynote address by Mr. Naveen Mittal IAS., Commissioner of Technical and Collegiate Education, Govt of Telangana, Mr. Ramamoorthy Rajendran, Director, DigitalBuild, Singapore, Dr. Glenn Ballard, Director, Project Productions Systems Laboratory at the University of California Berkeley and Dr. Koshy Varghese, Professor, IIT Madras and Director ILCE. The invited speakers were Col. Dr. Pawan Pandey, Director (Technical), Married Accommodation Project Indian Army, Ms. Durga Saripally, Co-Founder, Vconstruct Pune, Mr. C. Devarajan, Managing Director, URCL, Chairman & Managing Director, Tactive Software Systems and Director ILCE, and Dr. Ashwin Mahalingam, Professor, IIT Madras. The event had panel discussions on How to Improve Teaching Lean Construction?, Tangible and Intangible Benefits of Lean Construction Implementation, and Lean and Digital Construction by eminent speakers from Industry and academia.

The gathering had more than 120 registered delegates and more than 80 participants from the industry.

Winner details:

Lean Project Competition

Category 1 – Industry teams

2nd Runner-up

Team L&T Construction

M Vijay Kumar

Ajit GV

P Srinath

Title: Utilization of collaborative lean tools to improve cycle time & productivity in high-rise buildings

1st Runner-up

Team Godrej Construction

Kaezad Karanjawala

Diamond Barretto

Jitendra Bhatt

Title: Lean Implementation at Highrise Residential Project - Godrej Platinum Tower B4, Mumbai

Winner

Team Turner Project Management

Yash Saraiya

Ajay Handoo

Priya Singh

Suvankar Bhattacharya

Title: People, Process & Technologies influence each other in sustaining Lean Construction

Category 2 – Academic teams

Runner-up

Team IIT Madras

Kumaresan Panneerselvam

Megha S Pradeep

Varun Kumar Reja

Title: Framework to use extended reality as part of lean implementation for effective collaboration and training among professionals

Winner

Team NICMAR Pune

Kausik Naramsetty

Vaddadi Venkata Sai Krishna Teja

K Pavan Kalyan

Dwarapureddy Madhur Maharshi

Yata Raj Sandeep

Dr. Avinash Bagul

Title: Minimizing transportation waste in construction industry

Category 3 – Industry-academia hybrid teams

Runner-up

Team NICMAR Pune-AFCONS

Jayadatta V Lad

Manish Prabhakar Mokal

Dr. Shobha Ramalingam

Jyoti Jain

Ujan Sengunpta

Title: Identifying and mitigating waiting waste in MPEW project

Winner

Gururaj Parande

Yadhnesh Udas

Dr. Shobha Ramalingam

Aman Ashish

Himank Chawla

Title: Identifying defect waste and assessing the effectiveness of measures on MPEW project

Best Poster Award

Runner-up

Kakaraparty Manoj from L&T Construction

for their poster on

Utilization of Lean Tools in Infrastructure Projects

Winners

Parth Bhadaniya & Aritra Roy from Shapoorji Pallonji Engineering & Construction

for their poster on

Integrating Last Planner System (LPS) for planning and monitoring of activities in concrete cycles for high-rise building projects

Best Paper Award

2nd Runner-up

Parth Bhadaniya

Aritra Roy

Nitesh Vyas

Anand Aswale

Prashant Bhavsar

Sagar Gandhi

Girish Bonde

From Shapoorji Pallonji Engineering & Construction

For their paper titled: CUSTOMIZING THE LAST PLANNER SYSTEM COMPONENTS TO PLAN AND MONITOR TYPICAL CONCRETE CYCLES

1st Runner-up

Dr.V.Pramadha

Prof. Prasad K

Dr. Venkatesan Renganaidu

From NICMAR Hyderabad

For their paper titled: A STUDY ON THE BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS CONTRIBUTING TO LEAN TRANSFORMATION IN INDIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

Winners

Ragavi Prabaharan

Karthikeyan Sundaralingam

Tamilnathan

Mohanbabu Subramanian

From URC Construction (P) Ltd

For their paper titled: ASSESSMENT OF LAST PLANNER® SYSTEM MATURITY & ENGAGEMENT OF PARTICIPANTS BY LINGUISTIC ACTION PERSPECTIVE APPROACH- A CASE STUDY