About the Symposium
Purdue University has launched a new center of excellence named Purdue EPCOM, which is The Center for Facility Delivery Work Process Excellence. EPCOM is an acronym for Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Operations and Maintenance. The new center offers engineering and construction project delivery work process improvements for large and medium companies.
The inaugural EPCOM Symposium is a full day event now being planned for late 2017. Companies have expressed interest in individual "closed" sessions with them in order to have proprietary discussions on issues they are facing. We are exploring a variety of additional ideas for the conference and welcome your input. Our goal is to help clients create effective company cultures, enhance their leadership of change; and derive, implement and govern with performance breakthrough work process. Attendees will hear from some of the industry's best minds through information sessions and roundtable discussions on the direction and flow of work processes to enhance project performance. Our goal is to showcase Purdue University's ability to help you create effective company cultures; create a leadership of change; and derive, implement and govern with performance breakthrough work process.
Our goal is to assess opportunities for companies to improve, align management on “what should be,” then research and implement best practices for rapid and continuous improvement to guide the construction industry to operational excellence.
Why Attend?
- Discuss Improvement Challenges that are confronting owners, contractors, suppliers and subcontractors; and consider potential solutions of mutual benefit.
- Assess Improvement Opportunity: Project performance challenges are prevalent and intensify as size and complexity continue to increase. Assess your company’s work process and methodologies to reliably meet these challenges.
- Engage with Clients Searching for Large Construction Competency: Clients claim that construction planning and execution has deteriorated globally, resulting in low field productivity and longer mechanical completions. Many large contractors, doing project planning and design, do not self-perform construction as a core business competency. Seize the opportunity to improve competency for large construction execution.
- Close Project Performance Gaps: There has never been a greater gap between what is known about how to improve project performance and what reliably gets implemented. Closing this gap, faster than competition, constitutes the greatest current opportunity for owners and contractor companies, project teams and professionals on the world stage.
- Hear How Purdue University Researchers Team with Industrial Consultants to assess, define and facilitate company implementation of improvement.
- Discover Clear and Present Opportunity: Symposium speakers share their leadership-of-change experience and industry work processes improvement of current, national and global challenges and offer deep insight.
- Advance How Owner Companies Can be the Change Agents driving industry improvement
- Network with Like-Minded Professionals: It is an ideal forum for discussing the closure of performance gaps by implementation of best practices, facilitated with advanced methods, in the required and sustaining corporate cultures.