IGLC PhD Summer School 2019 - Waterford

This years IGLC PhD Summer School will take place in Waterford Institute of Technology on the 6th & 7th of July. The Deans for this years International Summer School will be Dr. Ritu Ahuja (BIM Lead, Canada, Sanrachna: BIM and Virtual Building Consultants Associate, Shift2Lean Inc) and Dr. Emmanuel Daniel (Solent University, Southampton, United Kingdom) and will host the School for students from 13 different countries, including: England, Canada, America, Brazil, South Africa, Germany, Finland, Austria, India, Austrialia, Norway, Ireland and Italy.

The IGLC 2019 International Doctoral Summer School provides an opportunity for PhD research students to present their work and receive feedback from a panel of senior lean construction academics and experts. This two-day event supports in-depth discussion of current research in the field of lean construction including research on topics within the research conference such as:

1. Contract and Cost Management
2. Enabling Lean with Information Technology
3. Lean and BIM
4. Lean Theory
5. People, Culture and Change
6. Product Development and Design Management
7. Production Planning and Control
8. Last Planner? System
9. Language Action Perspective
10. Production System Design
11. Safety, Quality and Green-Lean
12. Supply Chain Management and Off-Site Construction
13. Learning & Teaching Lean

The Summer School is organised to foster discussion – student presenters have 15 minutes to present their work, followed by 25 minutes of discussion with a panel of lean construction professors, experts and their peers. Students report this is one of the most valuable parts of the conference since it offers them an opportunity to improve their research proposals. The Summer School will also offer instruction on problem statement and research methodology formation to help students make relevant and original contributions within the lean construction domain.

For further information please visit: https://iglc2019.com/summer-school/