Awards
LCI has four awards that are presented at the annual LCI Congress event in October. These awards constitute an essential aspect of LCI programs, recognizing the accomplishments of individuals in the Lean environment who have provided extraordinary service on behalf of LCI and/or the industry as a whole.
Pioneer Award
The LCI Pioneer Award recognizes individuals who have moved the design and construction industry forward in embracing and implementing Lean tools and techniques.
Board Achievement Award
The LCI Board Achievement Award recognizes individuals who have moved the Lean Construction Institute forward in meeting its mission of transforming the design and construction industry. The awards are given out during LCI’s Annual Congress where awardees are recognized by the Lean Design and Construction community.
Design Award - A Team Award
The LCI Design Award recognizes project teams that are delivering outstanding design while advancing the industry through collaborative Lean Project Delivery. The purpose of this award is to encourage the adoption of Lean approaches and methods to improve project outcome and elevate design.
Engineering Design Award – A Team Award
The LCI Engineering Design Award recognizes project teams (architects, engineers, designers, clients and constructors) who work together to improve the design and construction process and produce design excellence in the built environment. Selection of Engineering Design Award winners is based upon how the projects implemented the tenets of lean (50%) and generation of value/fit for use (50%).
2023 Annual Awards Recipients
Pioneer Award
Keyan Zandy
Skiles Group
Keyan Zandy has been an active advocate and champion for Lean construction practices since 2005. He’s used Lean culture, practices, and tools to propel Skiles Group to record growth and built an avid, active base of Lean enthusiasts with his The Lean Builder community.
Board Achievement Award
John Zachara
Integrated Facilities Solutions, Inc.
With a Lean journey that commenced in 2012, John Zachara has played a pivotal role in raising awareness of Lean methodologies and implementing Lean practices within his organization and with client organizations.
2023 Annual Design Award Recipients
The Lean Construction Institute is pleased to recognize the awardee of the third annual Design Award:
Joan and Paul Rubschlager Building, Chicago, Illinois
- Rush University Medical Center: Owner
- HDR: Architecture, Planning, Interiors, Signage & Wayfinding
- Jacobs: Program Manager
Partners:
- 3HC Tangram Design: Programming
- AEI/TMI: MEP
- Aurora: Lighting
- CCS: Estimating
- DMA: Civil
- Lerch Bates: Vertical Circulation & Fall Protection
- Nia: Associate Architect
- RME: Structural
- Site Design: Landscape and Site Features
- SMW: Security & Technology
- St Onge: Supply Chain
- RRJ: Envelope Consultant
The iconic Joan and Paul Rubschlager Building completes a campus transformation on 11 acres in the nation’s largest urban medical district to a hub for leading edge patient care, research and education. An integrated team delivered this new destination center for cancer and neurosciences care, designed to meet the needs of patients with complex problems, in a streamlined, supportive and highly effective facility.
2023 Design Award Honorable Mentions
Vanport Building, Portland, Oregon
- SRG Partnership: Architect
- The City of Portland, Portland Community College, Oregon Health Science University, and Portland State University: Project Owners
- Andersen Construction: General Contractor
Partners
- PAE Mechanical Engineers
- Samata Electrical Engineers
- Catena Structural Engineers
- Mayer Reed
- BiElla Lighting Design
- Southland Industries
- The Harver Company
- Cherry City Electric
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU Children’s Tower, Richmond, Virginia
- HKS: Architect
- Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU: Project Owner
- DPR Construction: General Contractor
Partners
- BR+A Engineers
- Dunbar Structural
- Introba
- JLL
- Walter P Moore
- St. Onge
- TRC Companies
- Reichbauer Studio PLC.
- The Lighting Practice
- Liz Taylor Creative
- Exit
2023 Annual Engineering Design Award Recipients
The Lean Construction Institute is pleased to recognize the awardee of the first annual Engineering Design Award:
Ultium Cells Battery Cell Manufacturing Facility, Warren, Ohio
- Gresham Smith: Architect
- Ultium Cells (General Motors and LG Energy Solution): Project Owner
- Barton Malow Company: General Contractor
Partners:
- Hunt Electric Corporation/Lighthouse Electric Joint Venture
- John E Green
- Shambaugh & Son
- Hodess Cleanroom Construction
Ultium Cells, a joint venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solution, mass-produces battery cells to advance the vision for a zero-emissions, all-electric future. Through Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), Barton Malow, Gresham Smith, and all project partners designed and constructed Ultium Cell’s first 2.8-million-SF lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing facility in northeast Ohio.
2023 Engineering Design Award Honorable Mention
Merck DS4, Durham, North Carolina
- Jacobs (EPCM)
- Merck (Project Owner)
Partners:
- Cotter Brothers
- Daldrop SBB
- Environmental Air Systems
- Feldmeier Equipment
- Gamewell Mechanical
- Hilti
- IPEC
- LeChase
- Mathers
Previous Award Recipients
2022
Pioneer Award
Howard Ashcraft and Lisa Dal Gallo, Hanson Bridgett
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Chairman’s Award
Douglas Lee, Brasfield & Gorrie
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Design Award
Joan and Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building
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2021
Pioneer Award
Albert Manshum, Advocate Aurora Health
Chairman’s Award
George Zettel, Turner Construction Company
Design Award
Dr. Anne Anderson High School
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2020
Dean Reed, DPR Construction
Christian Pikel, The ReAlignment Group
2019
Victor Sanvido, Senior Vice President Southland Industries
Felipe Engineer-Manriquez, Lean Director McCarthy Building Companies
2018
Henry Nutt, III Sheet Metal Superintendent Southland Industries
Rebecca Snelling Vice President and National Lean Director J.E. Dunn Construction
2017
Michael Bade Associate Vice Chancellor Capital Programs & Campus Architect University of California, San Francisco
Bevan Mace National Vice President Operations & Lean Balfour Beatty US
2016
Sutter Health
Hal Macomber President Macomber Consultants, LLC
2015
Iris D. Tommelein Director Project Production Systems Laboratory (P2SL) Professor, Engineering and Project Management University of California, Berkeley
Bernita Beikmann Principal Director of Lean Strategy HKS Inc.
2014
Walt Disney Imagineering
Romano Nickerson Principal Boulder Associates
2013
Leo Linbeck III Executive Chairman Linbeck
Dick Bayer President The ReAlignment Group, Ltd.
2012
William A. Lichtig Senior Vice President The Boldt Company Paul Reiser Executive Vice President The Boldt Company William R. Seed Director, Design & Construction Universal Health Services
2011
Glenn Ballard LCI Co-Founder Greg Howell LCI Co-Founder
