Plus - Good meeting - Website - had time to discuss - range of views - proceedings on CD - location - weather

Delta - need print copies of abstracts & attendee list - not enough discussion - need more critique - technical problems with slides - enforce deadlines for papers - parallel sessions (choose carefully) - proceedings

All agreed that James Barlow and his group had made excellent work of a very difficult job. They deserve and have our appreciation.

• IGLC-9 will be held in Singapore for 3 full days in the first week of August, 2001. The business meeting will take place on the afternoon of the third day. National U. of Singapore will host. David Chua will be the conference organizer. David will also organize a preconference seminar to acquaint industry and academia with the lean construction movement.
• The Advisory Committee will handle solicitation and review of papers, and also structure the presentations and discussions. Glenn Ballard will coordinate the efforts of the Advisory Committee. The following suggestions were made regarding structure:
  -experiment with different methods of presentation and discussion
  -limit the no. of papers in each track?
  
• The presentation/discussion sessions will be organized in the following 6 tracks, derived from the Lean Construction Institute's research agenda (see attached):
  -theory
  -implementation
  -project definition and lean design
  -lean supply
  -lean assembly (site installation)
  -production management (work structuring and production control)
  
• IGLC focus groups will provide key questions and themes for the relevant tracks. Please communicate these to Glenn Ballard no later than 1 January, 2001.
• Acceptance of papers will be announced no later than 2.5 months prior to the conference (by the middle of May) to allow time for academics to get funding.
• Conference Preparation: Tentative Schedule (proposal to Advisory Committee. Not discussed in the meeting)

  January 1, 2001 Focus groups send questions and themes to Ballard

  January 15, 2001 First conference announcement & request for abstracts and papers

  February 15, 2001 Last date at which abstracts will be accepted

  March 15, 2001 Last date at which papers will be accepted for review

  April 15, 2001 Reviewer comments returned to authors

  May 1, 2001 Last date at which revised papers will be accepted

  May 15, 2001 Notification of acceptance to authors

  June 1, 2001 Papers are posted on the IGLC website

Last year, four focus groups were formed: Design Management, Human Issues, Supply Chain Management, and Production Management. Websites have been established for all but Human Issues, and that is said to be coming soon. This is a significant advance on previous efforts at collaboration.

At this conference, the first regional group was formed: a European 'chapter'. Details will soon be available through the IGLC website.

Graham Dunn agreed to establish and maintain websites for two additional focus groups, one for implementation and another for home building.

Lauri Koskela continues as the webmaster of the IGLC site.

• Carlos Formoso reported that he could publish the proceedings for IGLC-6 through his university, but they need some money up front. It was agreed that he will tell IGLCers how much he needs and we will purchase copies in advance in order to provide that money.
• Carlos is to communicate this plan to David Seymour, who is responsible for IGLC-5, and see if a similar scheme might work at U. of Birmingham.