The section On-line Conference Proceedings has been reorganized to reflect a suggested order for topics to be discussed. Note that our group usually plays it by ear, spending more time discussing some papers than others, and perhaps skipping some papers. All participants will have a say in this during our sessions. In preparation for our meeting, count on having 15 minutes to present your work, then a few minutes to address questions and answers directly pertaining to your work.

The fees are as follows:

• $250 - Conference Registration Fee, which includes:
  
  • Participation in IGLC-7 Conference (26-27 July 1999) + Hard Copy of Conference Proceedings.
  • Monday coffee for breakfast, mid-morning, and afternoon. Monday lunch.
  • Monday dinner and Hornblower boat cruise on the San Francisco Bay. Leave from Berkeley Marina.
  • Tuesday coffee for breakfast, mid-morning, and afternoon. Tuesday lunch.

• $25 - Field Trip on Wednesday afternoon, July 28 (space is limited to first 80 registrants).
• $70 - Accompanying partner on Monday night dinner cruise.
• $70 - Dinner with James P. Womack on Thursday night at the Radisson (space permitting). This dinner is part of the events organized on Thursday and Friday July 28-29 by the Lean Construction Institute and the invitation to dinner is extended to participants in the IGLC-7 conference. Details on these events, including the dinner, will be posted on http://www.leanconstruction.org/events.htm.

Upon cancellation up to one week prior to the conference, all paid fees minus $50 will be reimbursed.

See the section below for information on lodging. You need to make your own reservation.

The International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) makes up a network of like-minded professionals and researchers in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) who feel that the practice, education, and research of AEC have to be radically renewed in order to respond to the challenges ahead.

Our goal is to better meet customer demands and dramatically improve the AEC process as well as product. To achieve this, we are developing new principles and methods for product development and production management specifically tailored to the AEC industry, but akin to those defining lean production that proved to be so successful in manufacturing.

The IGLC has an e-mail list, to which everybody interested may subscribe. Our web site also includes a bibliography, providing more background on lean construction and lean production in general. The main activity of the Group is to organize an international conference to provide a discussion forum for its members and outsiders interested in lean construction. The 1999 conference will be the seventh of its kind.

The Proceedings of the first three IGLC Conferences have been published in "Lean Construction", a book edited by Luis F. Alarcon (A.A. Balkema, 1997, 25 cm, 497 p., Hfl.165 / $95.00 / £67 / ISBN 90 5410 648 4). The Proceedings of the three more recent conferences are available on the web.

The aim of the IGLC's annual Conference is to provide the opportunity to AEC practitioners, educators, and researchers to discuss industry practices and new developments of theory, principles, and applications of lean production in the AEC product development and production management process.

The overall conference theme is "Lean Construction" but this covers many subjects. Topics of interest for presentation and discussion include but are not limited to:

• Specifying Customer Value
• Mapping the Value Flow
• Lean Design, Lean Supply, Lean Construction
• Production Engineering Principles and Techniques for the AEC Industry
• Supply Chain Management
• Process and Project Modeling
• Performance Assessment and Improvement
• Methods and Tools for Teaching Lean Construction
• Case Studies and Applications

Papers will be presented and discussed on Monday and Tuesday, 26 and 27 July 1999. Members of the IGLC will meet to discuss business on Wednesday morning, 28 July 1999. All conference participants are invited to join us for a field trip to a construction site, which is planned that Wednesday afternoon.

• Iris D. Tommelein, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
• Glenn Ballard, Lean Construction Institute, Oakland, CA and University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

• Lauri Koskela, VTT, Finland
• Greg A. Howell, Lean Construction Institute, Ketchum, ID, USA
• Luis F. Alarcon, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
• James Barlow, University of Westminster, London, U.K.
• Hans C. Bjornsson, CIFE, Stanford University, CA, USA
• Antonio Sergio Itri Conte, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Naomi Garnett, University of Reading, U.K.
• Carlos T. Formoso, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Sherif Mohamed, Griffith University, Gold Coast QLD, Australia
• David Seymour, University of Birmingham, U.K.
• Paul A. Tilley, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia
• Todd R. Zabelle, Pacific Contracting, San Francisco, CA, USA

Authors interested in participating in the IGLC conference should submit papers and will receive feedback according to the following schedule:

• Complete Papers Due: Monday May 3, 1999
• Reviews Back to Authors: June 1, 1999
• Final Papers Due: July 1, 1999

The conference will be held Monday and Tuesday 26-27 July 1999. Given this tight schedule and according to lean principles no late submissions will be accepted.

Papers should be at most 12 pages long, including figures and references. All submissions (including figures) should be sent electronically to tommelein@ce.berkeley.edu. Specific formatting instructions are presented here in a Adobe Acrobat file and in a Microsoft Word file.

Members of the technical advisory board will assist in reviewing papers and selecting those for presentation.

The Seventh IGLC Conference will be held at the University of California in Berkeley, California, USA. The conference is being organized by faculty and staff of the Construction Engineering and Management (CE&M) program. U.C. Berkeley's CE&M Program, housed in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, offers several courses on Lean Construction; specifically: CE290P taught by Glenn Ballard and CE290N taught by Iris Tommelein. These courses can be taken by students in the Master's Program in CE&M, but also by other U.C. Berkeley students and members from the community at large if they enroll through U.C. Extension. We also offer courses through the Lean Construction Institute.

U.C. Berkeley is located on the east side of the San Francisco Bay area. The University can be reached by subway, using the Bay Area Rapid Transit system. The nearest stop is Berkeley Station. AC Transit also provides bus service in and around Berkeley (see map). A University shuttle bus travels clockwise around the campus.

The airport closest to Berkeley is Oakland (OAK); the second nearest one is San Francisco (SFO). San Jose Airport (SJC), at the south end of the Bay, is too far to be practical. Public transportation to/from any of these airports is available. Public transportation from Oakland Airport to Berkeley includes BART (take the AirBART bus at the airport, then transfer to a BART train at the Coliseum/Oakland Airport stop). In addition, several door-to-door limo services provide airport transportation.

A block of 30 rooms has been reserved in Stern Hall, a U.C. Berkeley dormitory, from Sunday July 25 through Thursday July 29. The rates are $41 for single occupancy and $27/person for double occupancy (i.e., $54 for the room). These rooms will be held for a limited time only: please make your reservation before May 31. Reservations can be made on line through Summer Visitor Housing or by calling call Conference Services at (510) 642-4444. They also post directions to Stern Hall. Overnight parking for dormitory guests costs $5 per vehicle and per night (or $ 20 for the week if arrangements are made before May 31).

A block of 15 rooms has been reserved for the Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday night (25-26-27 July) at the Durant Hotel. This hotel is located to the south side of campus on 2600 Durant and is within walking distance from the conference site. Guests must make their own reservations prior to 5 PM on June 25 by calling 1-800-2DURANT or 510-845-8981, or by sending a fax 510-486-8336 or e-mail: durant@sfo.com. Ask for the "IGLC 7th Annual Conference" room rate, which is $99/night for a room with single and $125/night for a room with double occupancy, plus a 12% occupancy tax. Overnight parking for hotel guests costs $5 per vehicle and per night.

The Lean Construction Institute also has rooms blocked at the Radisson Berkeley Marina Hotel from Saturday 24 July through Sunday 31 July. The rate is $105/night plus 12% city occupancy tax. Ask for the Lean Construction Institute Group Rate. In addition, Berkeley, other East Bay cities, and of course San Francisco provide numerous hotel accommodations.

Please address all inquiries regarding conference administration to:

The conference web site address is (this page if you are looking at it on-line) http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~tommelein/IGLC-7