Colocation is NOT a requirement for LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery

Highly experienced teams are far more important for deployment of LEAN construction delivery solutions such as Integrated Project Delivery and LEAN Job Order Contracting.

"While anecdotally, colocation is strongly valued, is not significant factor in the perception of open and effective communication." (2021, IPD CASE STUDIES AIA, AIA Minnesota, School of Architecture – University of Minnesota March). This finding calls a current practice of public sector practices of paying a fee for "on-site JOC consultants". Furthermore, its clear that public sector organizations would be best served by building and maintaining LEAN process knowledge internally.

In short, collaborative and integrated construction planning, procurement, and project delivery can be accomplished without colocation of all participants and stakeholders.

The most important elements for LEAN repair, renovation, and new build processes are...

1. Owner leadership and support
2. Written long-term multi-party contract supporting a robust LEAN methodology, inclusive of an Operations Manual/Execution Guide
3. Locally researched unit price cost data, organized using CSI Masterformat
4. Mutually beneficial objectives and goals
5. Team respect and trust
6. Quantitative metrics
7. Mandatory initial and ongoing multi-level/multi-format training
8. Regular independent third-party audits

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