Work Shop: Target-Value-Design | Murray Guy

Target Value Design can get us to Net Zero Buildings at Net Zero additional cost | Murray Gu

Target Value Design is a disciplined design management system that turns the traditional design process upside down. Unlike traditional design processes where teams often design in silos and the final cost is not known until after the tender, target cost design is a dynamic process that involves the contractors that are going to be doing the work. It involves establishing a clear target, developing fully integrated design solutions with the whole team that meet the requirements and testing assumptions to the requirements and cost. Simple as that!

The target cost design process requires that the design team completely understands the Project Requirements and what represents value for the owner, tests design assumptions early and regular for value, keeping all options open until the last minute and finally choosing and integrating the best concepts that create the best value for the target cost. 

In this four-hour work shop, you will participate in the design of a Smart Building Net Zero project that will be a building of the FUTURE. Through collaborative and the adoption of lean and more integrated practices we hope to establish a conceptual DESIGN to meet the TARGET requirements and cost while provide exceptional VALUE.

The design workshop will include six clusters of 4 to 8 people organized around building systems including foundations, structure, envelope, interiors, mechanical, electrical and communication systems.

1. The first round of the simulation will include an assessment of the Project Requirements document and a testing of assumptions with the Owner’s representative.

2. This will be followed by a short pull planning session to plan the afternoon, establish milestones and deliverables.

3. The cluster groups will then proceed with 20 minute refinements of design, followed by 20-minute report outs of the cluster groups to the overall design cost to the target.

4. Finally, we will collaborate, integrate and innovate until we develop a solution that meets or exceeds the project requirement at or below the target cost.

The work shop will conclude with a discussion on how collaboration and integration can be used to deliver higher performance at less cost enabling teams to be more competitive.

Murray Guy aka @Lean_tobe_Green

Learn: LEAN LAB. … Design: Integrated Designs … Build: EcoSmart

For inquires: Mguy@i-designs.ca or 306.934.6818

Do you want the DIRTT on DIRTT?

Mogens Smed is a colourful Calgary entrepreneur made his mark manufacturing high-end office furniture and interiors, before selling out to U.S. giant Haworth Inc. in 2000. Now, he's back with a three-year-old private company, DIRTT Environmental Solutions, which uses advanced software to design, build and organize modular "green" interiors for North American companies. 

DIRTT is an acronym for "doing it right this time?" Did you do it wrong before?

Mogens Smed: Some chaos, a little bit of anarchy, no meetings - The Globe and Mail: "Mogens Smed: 

Some interesting tidbits from this Article

Lots of things were wrong. This is my third business career. My first company went bankrupt in 1982. Now I'm 61, and I've got three left in me. I've already got the name registered for my next one. 

It's called DIPTT, which means "doing it perfect this time," because we haven't done it all right this time either.

We are a manufacturing company in the most inappropriate city in the entire world, Calgary. But there is a genuine need and movement for sustainable products. We didn't get these many millions in sales because we got all misty-eyed about hugging a tree. We did it because we responded to the business issues and the design issues.

So there is a future in manufacturing in Canada?   There absolutely is - if you are using technology as a platform, and if you are not making widgets. 

What have you learned about managing?  If a client wants to get a hold of me, they call me directly. They don't have to go through a big bureaucracy. Nobody has an office in this company, including me. 

And there are no MBAs and lawyers in this company. It's on purpose. Read this book, A Whole New Mind, by Daniel Pink.'via Blog this'

We're not allowed to have meetings here at DIRTT.

How long will you keep going as an entrepreneur? I'll be going out feet first like some of these other guys. 

You're projecting $100-million in sales this year. Will this be a billion-dollar company?  More than a billion. No question.

Murray Guy aka @Lean_tobe_Green

NetZero Projects: Learn Online LEAN LAB. Design Integrated Designs or Build EcoSmart  

2 Down on the 5 Must-Read Books on Technology & Innovation | Inc.com

Inc.... Thank you Inc for helping to select the first reads for the year.  The Theme so far appears to be use Contrarian Thinking to GO BIG or GO to Mars, which is appropriate considering the TOUGH Targets that our society needs to achieve if we are going to sustain life on a planet with Eleven Billion People. 

My three BIG take aways so far:

From Peter Thiel(PayPal):

• Pick an important Truth that very few people believe in.
• Create something that is 10x better (FACTOR 10)  if you want your business to be HUGELY successful like
• Take care of 7 essential elements: Technology, Timing, Monopoly Product, Team, Distribution, Durability and a Secret

From Elon Musk (SpacerX, Paypal, Tesla, Solar City):

• It helps when you come from a Family of Adventurers and Risk Takers
• SpaceX uses lean practices to develop space craft at 1/2 the cost
• Stay clear of sub-optimal hybrids, go for the electric car 

Looking forward to reading the other three of the 
5 Must-Read Books on Technology and Innovation | Inc.com:

Murray Guy
@Lean_tobe_Green
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Lean Lab  ONLINE training on Lean & Green Projects
EcoSmart  can build you a Net 0 home
Integrated Designs  can design and build you a Net 0 building

Create Great Stories with GREEN Technologies

Latest green technologies show an exciting future - Canadian Consulting Engineer:


On every new project WHY not try and create a new sustainable story that helps move the bar closer to achieving all new buildings Net 0 by 2020.   


It is important that these  Sustainable Stories make sense, utilize new ideas or concepts that have been proven and are economically viable.  When we have created enough sustainable success stories, Net 0 buildings will become the norm and  sustainable development main stream.


This blog has been added as one of these IDEAS just might help form the basis for your next sustainable success story.


Algae filled curtain walls 

Sola road - A bike path in Amsterdam with solar embedded Pv panels also heard

GlasPro - Bird Safe Glass .... Could save millionsx of birds lives.

Replex Net 0 Daylighting

6 Story wood building - MEC Vancouver

Stacking parking Garages - Eddy condominium

BioMason Bricks - Grow your own 

Air Pure Paints that EAT VOC's


Thank you Windmill for continuing to be a pioneer in making sustainable development mainstream


Murray

@Lean_tobe_Green


Want to learn how to build high performance Green Buildings at less cost visit the Lean Lab


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Bran Ferren on the Art of Innovation

“To build the Pantheon took some miracles,” he explained to the audience in a 2014 TED talk that has attracted more than a million views. “By miracles, I mean things that are technically barely possible, [are] very high risk, and might not be actually accomplishable at this moment in time, certainly not by you.” 

Bran Ferren on the Art of Innovation: 

Thank you Strategy + Business for this article on Bran Ferron where we discover that dropping out of MIT and going on rock tour with Paul McCartney and Pink Floyd can be a good thing.  It also doesn't hurt to grow up in an environment where both ART + ENGINEERING are given equal consideration as this helps to develop the type of creative mind needed to bring true innovation alive.  

In his TED Talk, Ferron introduces the concept of MIRACLES and that we need five of them for true break through innovation to occur. When we consider that each person is only capable of 1.5 miracles in a life time, we soon recognize that it take a TEAM and the banding together of as many of the brightest people you can afford to make great things happen.  In his current company Applied Minds that is exactly the recipe they use to develop next generation products. 

When we compare the Applied Minds approach to the "Low Cost Approach" we use to assemble  TEAMs in the construction industry, just maybe we need to THINK differently about how we deliver projects to house the minds needed to do great work and run successful companies.

There are many good Nuggets in this article so I highly recommend a read. Enjoy!

Murray Guy

@Lean_tobe_Green

For information on building a GREAT TEAM  consider joining the LEANLAB.

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