As a Shingo Alumni with over 25 years in the AEC industry and a Lean Construction Institute certified Improved Instructor, Eric’s passion is helping teams to make their work easier and provide outstanding results. Eric is an experienced facilitator and Lean coach who has worked with countless design and construction groups to develop high performing teams and projects.
Specific efforts include project alignment, team partnering, validation and design planning, construction planning and execution, thru asset activation and closeout. He is also a CM-Lean Approved Instructor with the Associated General Contractors of America.
He learned construction through building homes before he was 20 and owned and operated a small home construction company during college. After graduating with Business and Construction Management degrees, he worked for PCL Construction where he started as a field engineer and grew to be a superintendent, scheduling manager, project manager and eventually was groomed to manage the U.S. Quality Program and later helped built PCL’s National Lean Program. He has a wide range of project experience, some including high-rises, medical facilities, parking structures and airports with project values of over a billion dollars. While at PCL as the National Lean Director, he helped grow various lean practices and behaviors across thousands of people, in a few years added over $15 million in savings and added value to the organization and project teams, and created a robust lean program used today. Today he is leading the organizational CI efforts at Aecon.
He is skilled in the Last Planner System®, Value Stream Mapping, continuous improvement, many other lean practices, developing high-performing teams, team partnering, project planning, and reinforcing the practice of operational excellence. Eric is a practiced facilitator and coach that teams quickly align with as he quickly makes a positive impact on the people he works with and provides lasting results with charisma. 94% of the people he works with report that his work is valuable if not extremely valuable as he enables success through action. Eric regularly presents on Lean topics at LCI and LDCC events and is an active Community of Practice contributor.
Eric’s vision of the AEC industry is one with little waste, healthy personal and team behaviors, a project first mentality, and one that is rewarding to every participant. Through the teams he works with, industry contributions, and a dedication to add value with all he does, he continues to improve the built environment.