Lean IPD Education and Certificates

James Pease is an expert in the set up and structure of large, complex capital projects using Lean and Integrated Project Delivery to drive highly reliable results. He has negotiated IPD contracts and delivered over $650M in complex healthcare projects as an Owner’s Representative with multiparty contracts, aligned team incentives and collaborative delivery models. He is the executive editor of the IPD focused website leanipd.com, an LCI NorCal Core Team Member and Co-founder of the COAA California Chapter. James has a BS in Management Science from UC San Diego and is a CA Licensed General Contractor.

Howard Ashcraft is a partner at Hanson Bridgett LLP in San Francisco, CA. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a JD degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been the lead partner on large, complex construction litigation in the U.S. and abroad. He currently heads Hanson Bridgett’s Construction Section. He was subcommittee chair for the National Building Information Modeling (BIM) Standard V1 and V2 and a member of the American Institute of Architects, California Council (AIACC) Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) Task Force. He co-wrote the AIACC standards for IPD as well as the Pankow Foundation IPD Action Guide, and the textbook, Integrating Project Delivery. Along with his team, he has structured over 160 IPD projects across North America and Europe. He is a Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers, a member of the Lean Construction Institute, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and an Honorary Member of the AIA California Council. He has served as an adjunct at Stanford University and a module leader in program management graduate studies at the Saïd School of Business, Oxford University.

Renée Cheng is the dean of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and senior vice provost at Arizona State University. Prior to joining ASU, she served as dean of the College of Built Environments at The University of Washington, where she led the college to rapid expansion of research and enrollment while increasing integration and collaboration across disciplines. Previously, Cheng was a professor, associate dean of research and head of the school of architecture at the University of Minnesota. There she founded an innovative graduate program linking research with practice and licensure that continues at Minnesota and Washington. Earlier in her career, she taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Arizona. She is a graduate of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and Harvard College.