CHICAGO, Illinois, April 24, 2024 – SSOE Group (www.ssoe.com), an internationally ranked architecture and engineering firm, announced today that members of its Lean Operating Strategy Leadership Team alongside some of their SSOE colleagues will present at the Lean Construction Institute’s (LCI) 2024 Lean in Design Forum. The event will take place May 1-2, 2024 at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. This year’s theme is “Lean in Design Thinking.” Continue Reading →

As part of our Lean journey here at SSOE, we’ve been working to employ the Kanban Method at the discipline department level, taking a narrow and deep approach to implementation as our first step toward tackling it as an organization. More than just a to-do list, the Kanban Method—often used synonymously with the pull system tool used to employ it—is an organizational approach to incremental, evolutionary change originally created by software pioneer David J. Anderson. It allows project teams to more effectively visualize their work in order to speed up the flow of that work. This is done by breaking work down into a manageable, commitment-based plan that is driven by the team as a whole, moving away from “my work” and moving toward “our work”. Continue Reading →

Josh Zimmerman, Department Manager, Business Development, BIM2Fab Steel, and Jourdan Schermerhorn, AIA, PMP, Senior Project Manager, both of SSOE Group, were recently quoted in this Industry Today magazine article. This recently published article discusses how the implementation of Kanbanize across SSOE and training employees on the Kanban Method has brought several key results for the firm. To read the full article, click here. Continue Reading →

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, October 6, 2022 – SSOE Group (www.ssoe.com), an internationally ranked architecture and engineering firm, announced today that several of their Lean project delivery experts will present at the 24th annual Lean Construction Institute (LCI) Congress on October 18 – 21, 2022 at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. Continue Reading →

PHOENIX, Arizona, April 21, 2022 –SSOE Group (www.ssoe.com), an internationally ranked architecture and engineering firm, announced today that several of their Lean Operating Strategy Leadership Team will present at Lean Construction Institute’s (LCI) Lean in Design Forum on May 4 – 5, 2022 at the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Hotel in Arizona. This year’s theme is Evolving with Purpose. Continue Reading →

PORTLAND, Oregon, February 8, 2022 – SSOE Group (www.ssoe.com), a global project delivery firm for architecture, engineering, and construction management, is proud to announce the recent appointment of Catherine Myers, PE, who serves as the firm’s President and Chair of the Board, to the Lean Construction Institute (LCI) Board of Directors. LCI’s mission to transform the construction and design industry is led by its board, which is comprised of senior management professionals with expertise in architecture, engineering, and construction. Members are engaged as leaders in ongoing efforts to better define LCI’s role and enhance its ability to pursue its goals and objectives. Continue Reading →