Schedule

The Purdue EPC^OM Inaugural Symposium is a full day event. 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. Session speakers may be subject to change.

Our goal is to showcase Purdue University’s ability to help you create effective company cultures and leadership of change, as well as derive, implement, and govern with performance breakthrough work process.

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7:00 - 8:00 AM		Arrival Reception and Continental Breakfast Check-in will be in the South Ballroom on the main floor of the Purdue Memorial Union. Guests will then have a chance to network with symposium attendees and speakers.

8:00 - 8:20 AM		Welcome to Purdue EPC^OM Symposium Reality of the Opportunity for Improvement Bob Bowen Board of Advisors Chairman, Purdue EPC^OM How my team broke through and engaged me to make a corporate cultural shift; current and future benefits.

8:20 - 8:45 AM		Why Connecting Universities and Industry Matters: How Everybody Wins Dr. Leah H. Jamieson John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, Purdue University

8:45 - 9:30 AM		Lessons from the Firing Line of Project Performance Improvement Tom Terris Industry Consultant, Purdue EPC^OM Leadership’s reluctance to make improvement takes many forms; what should happen but usually does not. Making the case for improving project performance; internal and external factors.

9:30 - 10:15 AM		Persuade Your Company to Pursue Organizational Change Rob Goings Industry Consultant, Purdue EPC^OM Companies must get past the confusing justification of “We don't have time and money to launch an improvement initiative.” The industry is struggling with projects being rushed to market while owners and contractors accept less-than-desirable results. All levels of management must be convinced of the need for change, and then engage it and fund it.

10:15 - 10:30 AM		Break

10:30 - 11:15 AM		Implementation of Best Practice is a Profound Opportunity Dr. Stephen P. Mulva Director, Construction Industry Institute at The University of Texas Senior management has been highly-resistant to devoting the attention and resources necessary for improvement. Many technological means and methods for best practice have been identified. Senior management must figure out how to apply them in their companies.

11:15 - 11:45 AM		Purdue EPC^OM Rapid Continuous Improvement Coupled with Research Dr. Makarand Hastak Head of Construction Engineering and Management, Purdue University The future success of industry and government is dependent on better alignment between academic innovation, teaching and industry needs.

11:45 - 1:15 PM		Symposium Luncheon - Integrate Safety with the Balance of Improved Task Level Performance Criteria Eric Grundke Corporate Safety Director, Kiewit Corporation Safety performance breakthrough occurred when managers at DuPont made their way up the chain of command to get executives to take ownership. Those managers and executives led the industry to get past the excuses and profoundly improve. Two decades later safety is beginning to decline or at least plateau. Why are “low frequency, high impact incidents” continuing to occur when other safety improvements have generally improved? Further safety breakthrough will come when it becomes aligned with breakthrough in the balance of performance criteria, at the task level, in the minds of operatives.

1:15 - 2:00 PM		Enterprise-wide Use and Practice of Rapid Improvement Behaviors, Methods and Tools Don Blake Industry Consultant, Purdue EPC^OM Alignment and participation of senior/executive management and project delivery elements to achieve immediate, sustainable cost/quality/delivery benefits via rapid improvement techniques, tools, countermeasures, and design of work.

2:00 - 2:30 PM		Leadership Defining Cultures that Breakthrough, Drive and Sustain Continuous Improvement Dr. Bob Patty Director, Purdue EPC^OM Establishing a credible sponsorship spine from the top through every level of management, to define with skill and stakeholders, the profoundly-improved future state and influence closing the gap between what presently is and what should be.

2:30 - 2:45 PM		Break

2:45 - 3:30 PM		Performance Control of Engineering and Construction Dr. Ted Weidner Associate Professor of Construction Engineering and Management, Purdue University What is required for efficient and effective project delivery? This session will include a facilitated discussion on overcoming project inertia.

3:30 - 4:00 PM		Mutual Benefits of Engaging in EPC^OM Teams for Breakthrough Team Panel Discussion, led by Fred Wellman Chief Estimator, M+W Americas, Inc. Industry Consultant Panel will answer attendee questions focused around uniting internal and external skill and stakeholders for breakthrough in rapid, sustained improvement.

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