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   Iris D. Tommelein
Professor
Interests: lean construction, supply-chain management, e-commerce, engineering and management of project-based production systems, materials management, construction processes, logistics and layout, information technology.

Mailing Address: Engineering and Project Management Program
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
215-A McLaughlin Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1712 		Office Hours: see posting of faculty office hours

Email: tommelein@ce.berkeley.edu

Phone: (510) 643-8678

Fax: (510) 643-8919

Biography

Iris D. Tommelein is Professor of Engineering and Project Management, in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at U.C. Berkeley. She teaches and conducts research developing the theory and principles of project-based production management for the architecture-engineering-construction industry, what is termed 'lean construction.' Current research focuses on the work specialty contractors and suppliers perform and how they can become integral participants in design-build teams in order to increase process and product development performance. Professor Tommelein is an expert on construction site logistics, layout, as well as materials management, supply-chain management, and e-commerce. Her work involves computer-aided design, planning, scheduling, simulation, and visualization of construction processes; and the use of information technology including web-based systems, wireless communication, bar-coding, and laser-based positioning systems.

Professor Tommelein is the Executive Director of the newly formed Project Production Systems Laboratory (P2SL), a research institute dedicated to developing and deploying knowledge and tools for project management as well as a learning lab for the Northern California construction industry. She is an active participant in the International Group for Lean Construction and she serves on the Board of Directors of the Lean Construction Institute. Professor Tommelein served on the Executive Committee of ASCE's Technical Council on Computing and Information Technology (TCCIT). She is a member of the Construction Research Council of the Construction Institute of ASCE.

Professor Tommelein is the 2002 recipient of the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Prize "for her research on civil engineering computing for managing project-based production systems in the engineering-architecture-construction industry".

Research

  • Lean Construction

  • Supply Chain Management & e-Commerce

    • The Value Chain - Adding Value tot the Supply Chain: Value Chain Mapping, Performance Assessment, and Improvement
    • Improving Construction Supply Chain Performance
    • Role of the Distributor in the Age of e-Commerce

  • Materials Management

  • Site Layout Design

  • Integrated Design, Planning, Scheduling, Simulation, and Visualization (nD CAD) of Construction Processes

    • Publications

    Click here to go to the publications page.

    Teaching

    • Spring 2007

      • CE169A Web-based Systems for Engineering and Management
      • CE169B Database Systems for Engineering and Management
      • CE169C Visualization for Engineering and Management
      • CE 290N: Advanced Construction Engineering aka. "Lean Construction II" 

    • Fall 2006

      • CE 167: Engineering Project Management

    • Lean Construction

      • Instructors: Professors Iris D. Tommelein and Glenn Ballard
        Two-day seminar offered through U.C. Extension: Berkeley Summer Engineering Institute
        June 2006

    • Other courses taught at The University of California, Berkeley, CA (semester last taught)

    • Courses taught at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1989 to 1995

      • CEE 432 Construction Engineering (Equipment and Methods)
      • CEE 502 Artificial Intelligence Applications in Civil Engineering
      • CEE 536 Critical Path Methods
      • CEE 538 Concrete Construction
      • CEE 830 Construction Engineering and Management Seminar

    Research Students

    Current Research Students

    • Farook Hamzeh (M.S./Ph.D. Student, EPM)

    • Kristen Parrish (Ph.D. Student, CEE Systems)

    • Colin Milberg (Ph.D. Candidate, EPM)

      Research: "Tolerance Allocation in the AEC Supply Chain."
      Send e-mail to Colin.

    • Zofia Rybkowski (Ph.D. Student, EPM)

      Research: "Research: "Management of Rebar Design & Detailing. " Research: "Target Costing in Design"
      Send e-mail to Zofia.

    Recent Graduates

    Current position: Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati
    Research: "Use of Work Structuring to Increase Performance of Project-based Production Systems."
    Send e-mail to Cynthia at the University of Cincinnati.

    Professional Memberships and Affiliations

    University of California at Berkeley

    American Society of Civil Engineers

    • Technical Council of Computer Practices

      • Executive Committee 1995-99, Chair 1997-98
      • Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence Committee, Member and EXCOM Representative, Past-chair
      • Database and Information Management Committee, Member and EXCOM Representative

    • Construction Institute

      • Construction Research Council, Member
      • Constructability Committe, Member

    Lean Construction Institute

    • Member of Board of Directors
    The Lean Construction Institute organizes educational seminars and offers consulting services that promote the implementation of lean construction practices. The aim of the Institute is to identify and advance best practices and develop the theory for lean production as it applies to the architecture/engineering/construction (AEC) industry.

    International Group for Lean Construction

    • Member
    The Seventh Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction was held from 26 to 28 July 1999 in Berkeley, California. Have a look at the Proceedings IGLC-7. The proceedings of this 1999 conference and those of other years are accessible through the main IGLC website.

    Member of Board of Consultants

    Editorial Advisory Board Member

    • Lean Construction Journal (LCJ), member of Advisory Board as of Fall 2003 LCJ is an international refereed journal devoted to Lean Construction practice and research. The primary objective is to stimulate a systematic rethinking of the construction process both on and off-site by providing a forum for disseminating knowledge and exchanging ideas between industry and academia. LCJ publishes high-quality practical papers that report developments, provoke new thinking and chronicle the history of Lean Construction in a manner that is readily accessible to reflective practitioners and clients of the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Industry and AEC students and faculty. LCJ publishes both basic and applied research papers and reports on projects from practitioners, consultants and academics.
    • ITCON—Information Technologies in Construction, member of Editorial Board 
    This electronic journal is distributed freely to anyone wishing to subscribe. The primary means of distribution is the World Wide Web. This journal has been endorsed by and is the host journal of CIB-78, a working group of the CIB (International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction). It is sponsored by the Swedish Council for Building Research.

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    | Prof. Iris D. Tommelein | Project Production Systems Laboratory (P2SL) | Engineering and Project Management (E&PM) Program | Civil & Environmental Engineering Department | U.C. Berkeley |

    E&PM Program / IDT / 12 June 2007