UC Berkeley uniquely offers two graduate-level courses on Lean Construction as part of the Master’s Program in Construction Systems (COS) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. See below for more detail.
Undergraduate senior-level students in their final semester may request permission to enroll in these courses and count them as a technical elective.
If you are not enrolled in a full-time graduate program at UC Berkeley, reach out to the instructor to request permission to enroll in these courses through the Concurrent Enrollment program offered through UC Berkeley Extension.
Our faculty and research staff offer workshops at various times and will be happy to customize one for you. See below for more detail.
Inspired by the Lean revolution in manufacturing, production management concepts and methods are woven into a Lean Project Delivery System. Key concepts include flow, value, variability, and waste. Key methods include production system design, target costing, value stream mapping, and work flow control. Student teams apply concepts and methods in field studies of real project management processes and construction operations. The course includes two field trips.
Principles and practices of “lean” production are applied to project delivery in the AEC industry. Case studies illustrate the concepts. Project delivery is viewed holistically with a focus on work structuring and supply chain management. Topics include systems dynamics, uncertainty, and variation; materials management; logistics; e-commerce; building information modeling (BIM); and integrated product and process design. Students use computer-based process simulation to assess performance of different system configurations and develop a case study applying concepts on a real project.
P2SL’s most popular workshops in recent years have been 1 or 2-days long and on the following topics:
We can also tailor workshops on these topics or other topics to your interest. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at p2sl@berkeley.edu with your questions and requests.