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A recent paper co-authored by Glenn Ballard, Romano Nickerson and Adept Management’s Jamie Hammond has received a fantastic response from lean practitioners from across the industry. The paper, which was published by the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) and is available for download here, was also presented at a recent Lean Design Forum event in St Louis, Missouri. This paper describes the application of Production Control Principles using real case study material from live projects within the construction sector. The paper demonstrates the power of lean during the design phases of projects.

Adept Management has been appointed by Bovis Lend Lease to develop a generic process model for BSF school design and to develop Integrated Design Programmes, using our ADePT technique, on 10 schools within the Birmingham BSF programme.

We have been appointed by Brookfield Europe to employ ADePT in the development of a short-term design programme and a full Integrated Design Programme on a major laboratory project in Glasgow.

We are now working for Capita to develop an Integrated Design Programme, using our ADePT technique, on a large residential project.

Adept Management has been appointed by Carillion to develop an Integrated Design Programme, using ADePT, on the new £190M multi-use landmark Library of Birmingham project. As well as a library, the project includes refurbishment of the Rep Theatre.

We are now working for Skanska, using ADePT in the development of Integrated Design Programmes, on the £600M PFI Maghull and Belmarsh prison project. This is in addition to our continuing role with Skanksa, providing our ADePT design management and control approaches on a major project for the MOD in East Anglia.

We are working for Kier, using ADePT in the development of Integrated Design Programmes, on Cumbria Schools projects. This follows quickly on the back of recent work on the new Featherstone Prison PFI project and on the Havelock Academy project in Grimsby where Integrated Design Programmes were developed, and recent work on East Herts College in Hitchen and the St Bernards Hospital project in Ealing, West London, where Adept Management facilitated design planning exercises.

Adept Management has used ADePT to develop a suite of Integrated Design Programmes for Taylor Woodrow on their current project to refurbish the south terminal at London's Gatwick airport. This project comes shortly after the same service was provided by Adept Management on a major extension project at Gatwick's north terminal. We are now working for Taylor Woodrow in a programme monitoring capacity.

Adept Management is currently supporting Coventry Primary Care Trust to manage the transition of various healthcare departments into a single newly refurbished HQ facility within the city.

Adept Management recently completed work, using the ADePT design planning and management methodology, to develop an Integrated Design Programme for a tender by BAM Nuttall and their design partners of Arup and Parsons Brinkerhoff on the Luton - Dunstable Guided Busway project.