The EPC^OM Center for Facility Delivery Work Process Excellence will host its inaugural symposium on April 19, 2017. 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. The goal is to showcase Purdue University's ability to help companies in the construction industry create effective company cultures; create a leadership of change; and derive, implement and govern with performance breakthrough work process.

The mission of the new EPC^OM Center at Purdue University is to help its members and constituents achieve sustained operational excellence through self-assessment, alignment with proven industry best practices, research solutions to unique problems, and implementation of rapid and continuous improvement. We address the gaps in individual employee, company or the industry’s knowledge base that restrain profitability potential. We plan to accomplish these work elements through training, education, and consulting.

Purdue EPC^OM differentiates itself from traditional centers of excellence not only by building capacity for sustained operational excellence and rapid, continuous improvement, but also via applied innovation (research) within Purdue University’s vast research capability, which is linked to Purdue EPC^OM. Other differentiation incorporates the corporate cultural components for managing an organization’s ability to change, along with proven project best concepts, strategies and practices, coupled with profound improvement facilitation.